For the past several years, social reading has been an undercurrent of the possibilities of digital publishing and ebooks. A number of companies have been launched since as early as 2010 to encourage readers with tools that make it easy to share in the discussion of a book across their social networks--and even with strangers--within the digital pages of a book. Companies like … [Read more...] about Towerbabel and the Launch of Social Writing
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Copia Contributes Towards Subscription Based Digital Learning in Australia
Copia hails itself as one of the best known names in the field of digital classroom solutions, and has announced its association with the LearningField project in Australia that aims to provide a complete digital makeover to education in that country. Led by Copyright Agency (described in Wikipedia as "an Australian company incorporated under the Corporations Code for the … [Read more...] about Copia Contributes Towards Subscription Based Digital Learning in Australia
Copia and the Globalization of Digital Reading
Digital reading app Copia is known for introducing innovative information at large-scale industry gatherings, such as last year's demonstration of its social reading feature that allows students to annotate inside a digital textbook in order to share and collaborate on notes. At this year's Digital Book World, Seth Kaufman, Vice President of Merchandising & Marketing for … [Read more...] about Copia and the Globalization of Digital Reading
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
Copia Partners with Australian Firm to Expand Indie Retailers’ eBook Business
One of the unintentional casualties in the shift to digital reading and online retailing has been the smaller independent bookstores. Although several initiatives like affiliates programs through Amazon and Google have sprung up to boost revenue for the indie bookstores, these locally owned shops, once the hub of literature and culture for their towns, are disappearing at an … [Read more...] about Copia Partners with Australian Firm to Expand Indie Retailers’ eBook Business
BookBaby Brings New Services to Indie Authors
GoodEReader has covered news and interviews with BookBabyin the past because they have shown themselves to be a company to watch in self- and digital publishing. With both print and ebook packages, as well as several other branches of the company that work in music distribution, website hosting, and more, they seem to be quietly seeking to be an all-encompassing provider for … [Read more...] about BookBaby Brings New Services to Indie Authors
Copia Brings Social Capability to Digital Textbooks
A lot of news has surfaced recently about the popularity of social reading, which enables fans of a particular book to share annotations and comments across existing social media platforms. At the same time, the world of digital textbooks got a boost from Apple and several other companies since the beginning of this year, making the realization of more widespread publication of … [Read more...] about Copia Brings Social Capability to Digital Textbooks
Copia Takes Social Reading to the Next Level
The newest reader-driven trend in digital reading is the ability to utilize apps and platforms that allow the reader to interact with an online community of fellow readers while they enjoy a good book. Kobo’s Reading Life app, now the highest rated e-reading app in the iTunes store and enjoying the highest user ratings from any reading software, allows its readers to track … [Read more...] about Copia Takes Social Reading to the Next Level
Copia demonstrates Social Media Reading at CES 2011
Copia had one of the most elaborate booths at CES in the main hall that advocated their new social reading platform for Android, Apple, Windows Tablets, Windows Phone 7 and others! The main premise of the service is to combine social reading along with purchasing ebooks, without being locked into a specific device such as the Kindle. The Copia platform allows people to share … [Read more...] about Copia demonstrates Social Media Reading at CES 2011
The Ocean Reader from Copia
If you have thought a low cost Kindle device would spell doom for the other budget e-readers to the extent they would be scampering for cover, well that does not seem to be the likely scenario. For as per the latest e-reader news, here is another e-reader and its not afraid to play the price game. Its the Ocean Reader from the house of Copia, a DMC Worldwide company. Ocean … [Read more...] about The Ocean Reader from Copia