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
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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