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Pearson Launches New Incubator Program for Startup Companies

Pearson is launching a new incubator program called Catalyst. This is a…

Amazon, Big Six Sued by Independent Bookstores Over DRM

As if there wasn’t enough interesting controversy in the relationship between Amazon…

PPA Releases First Ever Circulation Chart for UK Magazines

The Professional Publishers Association in the United Kingdom recently released their first…

The Future of Digital Publishing Will Be HTML5

We have argued on many occasions that HTML5 is more scalable in…

Korean Digital Publishing Platform KakaoPage Taking Over

What began as a simple Korean-made app that quickly grew to 70…

#IndieReCon Virtual Indie Author Conference – Day Two

Yesterday’s kickoff of the first IndieReCon online authors’ conference brought some huge…

SPH Magazines Enter the Digital Arena

SPH Magazines is one of the largest publishing outfits in Singapore. They…

Readers Digest Files for Bankruptcy Following First Digital-Over-Print Sales Month

One of the mainstays of American magazine publishing who enjoyed an extensive…

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…

IndieRecon Online Event Invites All Attendees

While many of the major events within the publishing industry are held…

eBookPlus To Embed Advertising to Create Free-But-Legal eBooks

While digital publishing in its current form is no longer in its…

Why the Penguin Merger with Random House Will Kill Overdrive

Most libraries in North American tend to do business with Overdrive to…

Amazon Now Accused of Causing Unemployment

As if the “evil empire” of book selling hasn’t done enough to…

The BBC Petitions the W3C to Implement DRM for HTML5

The British Broadcasting Corporation has petitioned the W3C to implement DRM on…

Net Minds Looks at Revitalizing Self-Publishing

There’s no doubt that the face of the publishing industry is changing,…

How to Build Your Own Book Scanner…But Should You?

A very interesting war is being waged on books. This time it…

Why Was Agency Pricing Established? To Save Our Bookstores

Over the course of the last five years, e-commerce giant Amazon has definitively…

US Courts Approve Random House and Penguin Merger

The proposed merger between Bertelsmann and Pearson’s publishing divisions have just received…

Tizra’s Web-Based Publishing Platform Helps Establish Direct Business for Publishers

Even though ebooks and digital publishing are a relatively new concept to…

Publishers as Booksellers?

At any event in publishing, there are commonalities or themes to the…

ReadSpeaker Supports Browser-Based Content Read Aloud

Everything about Tools of Change focuses on looking ahead to the future,…

Flipick and Solutions for ePub, InDesign

Flipick, part of the Mediawide group of companies, allows publishers to create…

eBook Discovery Enhanced with NetGalley

Before ebooks emerged on the reading scene in such a big way,…