Comics retailer Brian Hibbs, owner of Comix Experience in San Francisco, was one of the first retailers to adopt Diamond Digital's digital storefront, and he reports that after three quarters, his total take is $22. What's wrong with this picture? Hibbs is well known in the comics community, and he was linking straight to his digital comics store from reviews on the Savage … [Read more...] about Digital Comics Retailing: Could This Be Done Better?
Interviews
Barnes and Noble VP Jim Hilt on Tablets, e-Readers, and Discoverability
Jim Hilt, Barnes and Noble's Vice President of ebooks, gave a presentation at Digital Book World today that explored some interesting data on how readers—either tablet or dedicated device users—browse and discover new books. With the advent of online book shopping, whether consumers choose to buy print or digital editions, the standard genres and categories that book publishers … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble VP Jim Hilt on Tablets, e-Readers, and Discoverability
OverDrive CEO Steve Potash on Where ePub Is Taking Publishing
This year's Digital Book World conference has been filled with industry attention on a number of topics. Children's content has received a lot of the focus, as has the current wider adoption of the ePub3 standard. New terms have even been coined, with the recognition of the "hybrid" author as a driving force in the publishing industry.One of the areas that hasn't received … [Read more...] about OverDrive CEO Steve Potash on Where ePub Is Taking Publishing
Children’s Digital Content a Major Focus at DBW 2013
Some of the major focus of this year's Digital Book World conference has surrounded children's content in digital publishing. Once relegated to cute video game-like app books, children's publishers are now at the forefront of attention.Several fully attended pre-event presentations and event panels were scheduled throughout the conference, including one in which … [Read more...] about Children’s Digital Content a Major Focus at DBW 2013
Sourcebooks Dominique Raccah Speaks on Driving Innovation
Digital Book World's annual conference brings together a wide variety of experts across so many specialties in digital publishing to give insight into what makes the industry work. Once again, Sourcebooks' CEO and publisher Dominique Raccah was an invited guest to speak on driving innovation in publishing and agile publishing.One of the ways that Sourcebooks has proven … [Read more...] about Sourcebooks Dominique Raccah Speaks on Driving Innovation
Long-Form Journalism Platform Atavist Branches Out with Documentaries, Fiction
At last year's Digital Book World conference, GoodeReader caught up with Atavist to talk about the rise in popularity of long-form journalism, digital short stories, and serialized ebook novellas. Rather than a sign that the attention span of the average reader is waning, as some critics will argue, long-form journalism is actually the opposite; it allows readers who would have … [Read more...] about Long-Form Journalism Platform Atavist Branches Out with Documentaries, Fiction
MPS Digital Platform Will Address a Need in Publishing
GoodeReader met with Rose Rummel-Eury, the Director of North American Sales for MPS, at this year's Digital Book World conference. Like so many other digital publishing platforms, MPS provides digital solutions for publishers and companies with content to distribute electronically. But thanks to a cause that matters deeply to Rummel-Eury, MPS is already addressing a need that … [Read more...] about MPS Digital Platform Will Address a Need in Publishing
Vook Earns Two Innovation Awards at This Year’s Digital Book World
Wedged in between panels on globalization, the ePub3 standard, and the importance of producing and marketing dynamic interactive children's content, Digital Book World also presented a number of awards yesterday to top companies in digital publishing who have created something extraordinary in their fields.GoodeReader sat down with Matthew Cavnar from Vook, the the digital … [Read more...] about Vook Earns Two Innovation Awards at This Year’s Digital Book World
Copia Gravitates towards the Education Market
Copia first launched in 2010 and geared its core business towards online social communities and selling ebooks. The company currently offers around 9.2 million free and paid books, newspapers, and magazines. Business is good, but Copia is now branching away from selling fiction and non-fiction books and gravitating towards the educational sector.We spoke with Ben Lowinger, … [Read more...] about Copia Gravitates towards the Education Market
Game of Books’ Creator Aaron Stanton on the Game of Reading
Last week, GoodeReader covered the Kickstarter campaign that successfully secured funding for a concept that Aaron Stanton visualized, one that makes reading a book more than just a self-congratulatory experience. By allowing users to earn badges for completing "journeys" based on book genres and then in turn sharing their newfound status via social media, Stanton seeks to make … [Read more...] about Game of Books’ Creator Aaron Stanton on the Game of Reading
Color e-Ink to Build Momentum in 2013
Mainstream e-readers from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Sony, and Kobo have all tended to rely on e-Ink technology. This gives you the ability to read in direct sunlight, without having the typical glare you would get 0n a television, laptop, or tablet screen. There have been a few iterations of e-ink technology, but not much has changed in the last four years with the advent of … [Read more...] about Color e-Ink to Build Momentum in 2013
Pottermore CEO Explains the DRM-Free Decision
Charlie Redmayne spoke on two panels today in London at the FutureBook conference, the third annual conference put on by The Bookseller. Aside from the morning presentation in which he spoke on the importance of establishing a global brand for an author or a book series, Redmayne spoke quite vehemently in the later panel about how the practice of DRM-free ebooks can be better … [Read more...] about Pottermore CEO Explains the DRM-Free Decision
Readmill’s CEO Henrik Berggren at FutureBook
Over the course of the past several years, social reading platforms have sprung up almost as fast as digital ebook distribution platforms. While each platform has its standard features, newcomer Readmill offers an unique insight into what the possibilities for social reading are.With so much focus this year at FutureBook on the emerging ebook markets in foreign locations, … [Read more...] about Readmill’s CEO Henrik Berggren at FutureBook
Building a Community with Digital Manga: An Interview with Viz’s Alvin Lu and Gagan Singh
Today, Viz Media announced that its digital manga magazine Shonen Jump Alpha will publish manga chapters simultaneously with its Japanese counterpart, Shonen Jump. This means that North American fans of Naruto, Bleach, and other high-profile properties will be able to read the newest chapters digitally at the same time their counterparts in Tokyo and Osaka are picking up the … [Read more...] about Building a Community with Digital Manga: An Interview with Viz’s Alvin Lu and Gagan Singh
Dark Horse Launches New Android App
After almost a year of beta testing, the comics publisher Dark Horse launched its Android app this week, bringing Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Hellboy comics to a new platform.Dark Horse is the only major non-manga comics publisher to set up its own digital comics service rather than signing on with ComiXology or Comics Plus, the most popular digital comics … [Read more...] about Dark Horse Launches New Android App
Feature: Authorgraph Allows Authors to Digitally Sign eBooks
Evan Jacobs started Kindlegraph in early 2011 with a unique system that connected authors with their fans to digitally autograph ebooks. Over 5,000 authors have listed more than 20,000 books to be made available on the platform. In a bid to provide a wider appeal, the company has been renamed "Authorgraph" and authors can now sign digital books on any platform.In the past, … [Read more...] about Feature: Authorgraph Allows Authors to Digitally Sign eBooks