As digital magazines optimized for tablet and smartphone reading continue to enjoy a surge in growth, publishers still have to concern themselves with being able to accurately demonstrate to their advertisers that readers can--and do--interact with their ads. Adobe, the creators of the flagship Digital Publishing Suite that a wide variety of publishers use to create their … [Read more...] about Adobe, MPA Come Together on Standardization of Digital Advertising Metrics
Archives for September 2013
Pottermore Announces Former Sony VP as New CEO
JK Rowling's innovative Pottermore company, which oversees the interactive website, the sale of the entire Harry Potter ebook collection, and maintains a partnership with the Sony Wonderbook game based on the world of Harry Potter, announced yesterday its replacement for former CEO Charlie Redmayne.Susan Jurevics, formerly a Senior Vice President at Sony, said in a press … [Read more...] about Pottermore Announces Former Sony VP as New CEO
OverDrive’s Digital BookMobile on Hand at the National Book Festival
This weekend's National Book Festival, taking place once again in Washington, DC and hosted by the Library of Congress, will once again feature OverDrive's Digital Bookmobile in the company's ongoing effort to put ebooks front and center in readers' lives. While the book event will showcase so much that US publishing has to offer to a global community of readers, OverDrive, one … [Read more...] about OverDrive’s Digital BookMobile on Hand at the National Book Festival
Kuzya The Cat Now Assistant Librarian of Novorossiysk Library in Russia
With public library budgets around the world being dangerously low, one Russian library has had to resort to feline labor with a cat being appointed as the assistant librarian of a public library. At least, that's how things have shaped up at the Novorossiysk children's library in Russia, no matter how weird it might sound. Kuzya the cat has earned himself the coveted post of … [Read more...] about Kuzya The Cat Now Assistant Librarian of Novorossiysk Library in Russia
Qualcomm Pulls the Plug on the Toq
The smartwatch segment is just beginning to take shape, though it seems we are already about to witness the first casualty: Qualcomm Toq devices. Qulcomm’s entry in the smartwatch arena has been much talked about, but the company has stated they are pulling the plug on the device which they claim was never meant to be offered on a commercial basis. Rather, Qualcomm’s President … [Read more...] about Qualcomm Pulls the Plug on the Toq
Split Screen e-Ink Phone Cases Might Just Catch on
e-Readers are a technology that is relatively fringe in nature and has seen its growth stymied by the rise of tablets. E-Ink Holdings is the company primarily responsible for 90% of all e-Paper technology currently on the market. Last quarter, they lost $33 million and has been in constant decline for the past year. What can turn the e-paper industry around and have a greater … [Read more...] about Split Screen e-Ink Phone Cases Might Just Catch on
Bookeen to Release Cybook Odyssey with Front Light and Cybook Ocean
Bookeen is a French company and a European pioneer for electronic books. After having contributed towards the design of the first Cybook and its associated services for Cytale as early as 1998, Laurent Picard and Michaël Dahan created Bookeen in 2003. Since then, Bookeen has become an innovative supplier of e-book reading systems. Bookeen has acquired a unique experience in the … [Read more...] about Bookeen to Release Cybook Odyssey with Front Light and Cybook Ocean
Good e-Reader Radio – eBook Prices Falling, e-Ink cases for phones and iOS 7
Welcome to another exciting edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show. Today Editor in Chief Michael Kozlowski is joined by Digital Book Worlds own Jeremy Greenfield. Today the two lads talk about a new report that tracks eBook sales for the first six months of 2013 and how the overall landscape has remained flat. Although, Kids eBooks have dramatically fallen since last year by … [Read more...] about Good e-Reader Radio – eBook Prices Falling, e-Ink cases for phones and iOS 7
eBook Sales Experience Miniscule Gains in 2013
Many publishing experts all thought that 2013 would be the year that eBook sales would start to level off and cease the near double digit gains from years prior. The Association of American Publishers has just released its annual report that looks at the first six months of 2013. Overall, eBook sales have increased by a paltry 4.8% from $618 million in 2012 to $647 million in … [Read more...] about eBook Sales Experience Miniscule Gains in 2013
New MOOC FutureLearn Launches in the UK
Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, have been hailed as the future of education. Having initially gained widespread recognition with the launch of Khan Academy, MOOCs offer users a way to learn that can be as simple as brushing up on their skills or as involved as learning an entirely new subject.FutureLearn, new program controlled entirely by Open University, is making … [Read more...] about New MOOC FutureLearn Launches in the UK
Amazon Brings X-Ray to Apple iPad and iPhone
Amazon has just unleashed a massive new update for their Kindle app for iOS7. Users of the iPhone and iPad will finally be able to access X-Ray and Book Extras on their devices. This is the first time X-Ray is available anywhere but Amazon e-Readers and Tablets.X-Ray is a popular feature that gives you an indication of the people, places, and things in a particular novel. … [Read more...] about Amazon Brings X-Ray to Apple iPad and iPhone
Second OverDrive “Big Library Read” Project Includes School Libraries
Earlier this year, digital content distributor OverDrive partnered with publisher Sourcebooks in an experiment aimed at establishing concrete data on how readers respond in terms of book borrows and book sales to digital titles they check out from their libraries. Sourcebooks made one of its titles available to OverDrive's member libraries for a predetermined period of time … [Read more...] about Second OverDrive “Big Library Read” Project Includes School Libraries
World Book Encyclopedia to Offer Subscription Plan to Schools, Libraries
As well-known and highly respected publishing entities like newspapers and reference books struggle to compete with free information available on the internet, publishers of these types of content are forced to find new ways to stay relevant and more importantly, to stay in business. With the announcement last year the the two-hundred-plus-year-old Encyclopaedia Britannica … [Read more...] about World Book Encyclopedia to Offer Subscription Plan to Schools, Libraries