EU to Take Stronger Stance on VAT over eBooks The VAT, or value added tax, on ebooks has been a thorn… Mercy Pilkington22 February 2013One comment2 minute read
Sesame Street Apps Make their Way to the Kindle Fire Sesame Workshop, the creators of dynamic children’s content for a variety of… Mercy Pilkington21 February 2013One comment2 minute read
Amazon, Big Six Sued by Independent Bookstores Over DRM As if there wasn’t enough interesting controversy in the relationship between Amazon… Mercy Pilkington21 February 2013One comment2 minute read
Korean Digital Publishing Platform KakaoPage Taking Over What began as a simple Korean-made app that quickly grew to 70… Mercy Pilkington20 February 2013One comment1 minute read
#IndieReCon Virtual Indie Author Conference – Day Two Yesterday’s kickoff of the first IndieReCon online authors’ conference brought some huge… Mercy Pilkington20 February 2013No comments3 minute read
Readers Digest Files for Bankruptcy Following First Digital-Over-Print Sales Month One of the mainstays of American magazine publishing who enjoyed an extensive… Mercy Pilkington19 February 2013One comment2 minute read
eBook Review: Vintage Tomorrows by James H Carrott and Brian David Johnson Verdict: 4.5 Stars Judging from how hard it is for an author… Mercy Pilkington18 February 20132 comments2 minute read
IndieRecon Online Event Invites All Attendees While many of the major events within the publishing industry are held… Mercy Pilkington18 February 20132 comments2 minute read
eBookPlus To Embed Advertising to Create Free-But-Legal eBooks While digital publishing in its current form is no longer in its… Mercy Pilkington18 February 20132 comments2 minute read
Amazon Now Accused of Causing Unemployment As if the “evil empire” of book selling hasn’t done enough to… Mercy Pilkington17 February 2013One comment2 minute read
Net Minds Looks at Revitalizing Self-Publishing There’s no doubt that the face of the publishing industry is changing,… Mercy Pilkington15 February 20132 comments3 minute read
How to Build Your Own Book Scanner…But Should You? A very interesting war is being waged on books. This time it… Mercy Pilkington15 February 2013One comment2 minute read
Tizra’s Web-Based Publishing Platform Helps Establish Direct Business for Publishers Even though ebooks and digital publishing are a relatively new concept to… Mercy Pilkington14 February 2013One comment2 minute read
Publishers as Booksellers? At any event in publishing, there are commonalities or themes to the… Mercy Pilkington14 February 20134 comments2 minute read
ReadSpeaker Supports Browser-Based Content Read Aloud Everything about Tools of Change focuses on looking ahead to the future,… Mercy Pilkington14 February 2013One comment2 minute read
Flipick and Solutions for ePub, InDesign Flipick, part of the Mediawide group of companies, allows publishers to create… Mercy Pilkington14 February 2013One comment1 minute read
eBook Discovery Enhanced with NetGalley Before ebooks emerged on the reading scene in such a big way,… Mercy Pilkington14 February 2013One comment1 minute read
Bowker on the DCL, Vook Partnerships to Enable eBook Creation Following up on the exciting news about the Bowker and Data Conversion… Mercy Pilkington13 February 20132 comments2 minute read
Goodreads’ CEO Otis Chandler Presents Data on Book Discovery One of the most pressing obstacles for authors, publishers, book sellers, and… Mercy Pilkington13 February 2013One comment2 minute read
Cory Doctorow, eBook Piracy, and Dandelions One of the most entertaining speakers at this year’s TOC event–or any… Mercy Pilkington13 February 2013One comment2 minute read
Kno Cofounder on the Practical Applications of Digital Textbooks Babur Habib, co-founder of educational software and digital textbook designer Kno, was… Mercy Pilkington13 February 2013No comments1 minute read
QBend on Providing Publisher Solutions One of the concerns discussed at this morning’s keynote addresses at the… Mercy Pilkington13 February 2013One comment2 minute read
Tools of Change Conference 2013 Underway with Future Thinking As this year’s eagerly awaited TOC got underway in New York, a… Mercy Pilkington13 February 2013No comments2 minute read
