Automattic is the company responsible for developing and maintaining Wordpress and they have just acquired the technology and digital publishing company Atavist. The deal encompasses Atavist’s proprietary content management system, its customer base and the Atavist Magazine, which publishes long-form journalism every month. Atavist first started in 2011 by Freelance … [Read more...] about Automattic purchases digital publishing company Atavist
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The Atavist is Closing their Mobile App
The Atavist publishes a monthly magazine and has a self-publishing portal where tens of thousands of storytellers, from giant companies to small nonprofits create their own branded magazines every month. Today, Atavist has confirmed that they are ditching their mobile apps and focusing on web content. Many people have not really heard of Atavist before, unless you have … [Read more...] about The Atavist is Closing their Mobile App
Amazon Launches New Short Story Publishing Imprint StoryFront
One of the most potentially useful features of digital publishing was the ability of authors to publish their short stories without the tedious process of anthology selection. In the past, authors who pen short stories had to submit their stories to collections publishers, and those anthologies are typically only published periodically; barring that, the author could try to … [Read more...] about Amazon Launches New Short Story Publishing Imprint StoryFront
Who’s Who in Pioneering Stand Alone eBooks?
A post today for Huffpo's Books section is worthy of a share here on Good e-Reader: Howard Polskin, CEO and Editor in Chief, Thin Reads, listed his picks for some of the most powerful names in digital publishing, at least where the increasingly popular ebook singles are concerned, and we couldn't agree more. In his post, "The 8 Most Influential People in E-Book Single … [Read more...] about Who’s Who in Pioneering Stand Alone eBooks?
The Atlantic’s New eBook Platform Features Long-Form Pieces
The popularity of long-form journalism and essays is continuing to grow. Companies like The Atavist, Vook, Now & Then Reader, and the Kindle Singles division of Amazon are bringing high-quality longer essay pieces to avid readers, thanks to digital publishing and online retailing of e-shorts. Now, one of the nation's oldest and best known monthly magazines has emerged with … [Read more...] about The Atlantic’s New eBook Platform Features Long-Form Pieces
Atavist Offers Whispersync Compatibility with eBooks and Audiobooks
Boutique self-publishing company Atavist has introduced the support for Amazon Whispersync for audiobooks and ebooks. This will allow customers to listen to an audiobook and then pick up right where they left off with the ebook edition. Each book title is around $1.99 and discounts are currently available if you want to buy both. Currently there are around twelve different … [Read more...] about Atavist Offers Whispersync Compatibility with eBooks and Audiobooks
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
eBooks and the Race to Publication
Of the many benefits to come from digital publishing, the reduction of seemingly unnecessary delays and hold times has been one of the most popular for authors, publishers, and readers alike. Where books on current events or notable figures would often take months to reach the market, long after the fervor had died down, ebooks are reaching consumers’ bookshelves within hours … [Read more...] about eBooks and the Race to Publication
Media Moguls Team Up to Form Brightline ePublishing
Barry Diller, the Chairman of AC/InterActiveCorp, and film producer Scott Rudin have banded together to form a new digital publishing company. The new initiative will be called Brightline and will publish ebooks and eventually physical books in a partnership with Atavist. Just what the world needs, another company getting into digital publishing, right? Except these two guys … [Read more...] about Media Moguls Team Up to Form Brightline ePublishing
Stephen King to Release New eBook Short
Author Stephen King has announced he will be releasing a new digital-first title entitled A Face in the Crowd, for which he will once again partner with author Stewart O’Nan. The two worked together on a previous project about the Boston Red Sox. This isn’t King’s first straight-to-digital release and he is certainly not the first author—indie or traditional—to take … [Read more...] about Stephen King to Release New eBook Short
TED Launches Multimedia e-Reading Platform
The widely recognized organization behind “viral web inspiration” TED, developer of TED Talks, is now taking on reading in the digital age with its TED Books platform. The multimedia source, working in conjunction with short-form digital publisher Atavist, will be compatible first for iPad at its July 10th launch, with plans for Android compatibility to follow. While TED has … [Read more...] about TED Launches Multimedia e-Reading Platform
National Geographic Launches Series of eBook Shorts
One of the great benefits of digital publishing is its flexibility and the capability for ebooks to bring something for every reader. Like Amazon’s Kindle Singles or Atavist’s shorts, these ebooks are generally in the range of 5,000 to 30,000 words and are reviving interest in a variety of short form literature. Now, National Geographic is joining the digital short arena … [Read more...] about National Geographic Launches Series of eBook Shorts
Atavist and Short-Form Digital Publishing
Digital Book World 2012 has showcased a variety of forms of digital reading content or add-ons, essentially the ways that e-reading is so much more than just novels. Copia demonstrated its social reading platform and rolled out its college textbook interactivity, BookTracks offered samples of its fully integrated audio enhancements, and a variety of companies like start-ups … [Read more...] about Atavist and Short-Form Digital Publishing
The Atavist – New Digital Publishing and e-Reader Platform
There is a new e-Reading platform on the horizon that is tailored towards writers that tend to write in the very long form. Often authors will face the plight of submitting content with a high word count that leaves magazines unable to accept, blog articles being too long for peoples short attention spans and yet is too short for a full length novel. Started by Freelance … [Read more...] about The Atavist – New Digital Publishing and e-Reader Platform