Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Sun, 10/04/2011 - 16:03 Enhanced ebooks are dead, discoverability is the most important issue facing ebook vendors, while pricing strategies should be measured against other digital content, not physical books. These were the key themes that emerged from the London Book Fair's Digital Conference, The Digital Now: Creating Lasting Value. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Torino's international book fair presents its fourth annual conference for translators at the Frankfurt Book Fair, featuring Italian books. The post ‘From Italy to the World’: Torino’s Translation Conference at Frankfurt appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-10-04 02:07:10 UTC ]
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Fondazione LIA's new APACE: 30 million Europeans await the EU Accessibility Act, but will publishers be there for them? The post Europe’s APACE: Only 1 in 4 Publishers Produce Accessible Ebooks appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-10-02 23:48:06 UTC ]
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Blizzard is diving into the StarCraft shooter well once again, after two previous titles were canceled. This information comes from a forthcoming book about the developer by games journalist Jason Schreier and was discussed during a recent IGN podcast. This time around, veteran developer Dan Hay... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-09-27 15:39:50 UTC ]
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Fifteen years ago, Electric Literature started as a print and digital quarterly journal during the glory days of the print magazine era. Our very first issue surpassed 10,000 copies in sales, we were stocked in newsstands and bookstores, and as an e-book. We were one of the first to publish... Continue reading at Electric Literature
[ Electric Literature | 2024-09-27 11:10:00 UTC ]
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Time's chief operating officer took the stage at the Digiday Publishing Summit to share how he evaluates deals with AI companies. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2024-09-27 04:01:00 UTC ]
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California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed AB 2426, a new law that requires digital marketplaces to make clearer to customers when they are only purchasing a license to access media. The law will not apply to cases of permanent offline downloads, only to the all-too-common situation of buying... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-09-26 20:30:54 UTC ]
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News that GOG.com has delisted 29 games this month is a sobering reminder that at any moment the games you own could vanish from your PC game libraries at any time and there’s not much you can do about it. Admittedly, GOG’s games include titles that many gamers may not have heard about.... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2024-09-26 10:30:00 UTC ]
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Publishers for Palestine, a coalition of more than 500 publishers in 50 countries, issued an open letter demanding that organizers of the Frankfurt Book Fair, slated for October 16-20, "refuse collaboration with complicit Israel book publishers." Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-26 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Attention, bookworms and fellow travelers! Verso, the beloved left wing publishing house and hub for radical thought, is in big financial trouble. The company’s UK distributor, Marston Book Publishing, filed for bankruptcy this July—and left behind some unsettled debts. Verso explained how those... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Organizers of October's Frankfurter Buchmesse tell reporters that the show will be firmly in touch with books' place in current affairs. The post Frankfurt News Conference: An Issue-Energized Trade Show appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2024-09-24 10:15:38 UTC ]
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It’s delightful, on the one hand, to have a feverish Book Event. I’m as excited as anyone that we’re doing midnight release parties for literary fiction in the year of our lord 2024. That said, we need to talk about the Rooneyverse. This week, we’re getting a novel—Intermezzo—from Sally Rooney,... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Stevie Wilson: Tablets Are a New Way for Prisons to Profit off the Incarcerated In 2015, the PA DOC introduced tablets sold by GTL (now Viapath) to the general population. We were told we would be able to send and receive emails, buys songs and books, submits requests to staff and order... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2024-09-20 08:56:11 UTC ]
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Can the industry save itself from short-term thinking, even if Google is dealt a blackened eye, or bloodied nose during a raft of government tussles? Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2024-09-20 04:01:00 UTC ]
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Old school newspaper hawkers will be handing out copies of the ‘Gotham Gazette,‘ a newspaper inspired by the new show ‘The Penguin.’ Given the semi-annual world-ending events and the bevy of unhinged, heavily costumed folks behind them, a comic book universe would be an objectively terrible... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2024-09-19 14:04:17 UTC ]
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This week's new books include an excellent graphic memoir, a fiercely honest memoir, and more. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-09-17 15:30:00 UTC ]
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This year's New England Independent Booksellers Association conference, held September 11–13, brought together booksellers, publishers, and authors and highlighted such industry trends as the rising price of books and strong sales of horror and fantasy titles. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2024-09-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Robert Caro’s mammoth study of the urban planner Robert Moses is coming out as an e-book this month, on the 50th anniversary of the biography’s publication. Continue reading at The New York Times
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A celebration of kids and their dogs, a monster-hunting girl, and more of today's best children's book deals. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2024-09-11 14:46:00 UTC ]
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Studio advertises for British and Irish children aged 9-11 to play Hogwarts heroes in ‘decade-long’ TV adaptationsHBO has kicked off its search for the next Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, with the studio posting an open casting call for its forthcoming TV adaptation.The casting... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2024-09-10 22:39:27 UTC ]
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The Internet Archive is starting to run out of legal options. Wired reports that the non-profit internet cataloguer of videos, games and books lost its appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The court rejected Archive.org’s claim in its ongoing lawsuit with several high... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2024-09-04 20:24:53 UTC ]
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