As more people around the world turn to free sources of information and education online, companies like Learnist have sprung to enable access to top content from both user-generated sources and experts in their fields. With the growing numbers of users returning to web-based reading and mobile device consumption, portability is also a must in order to make social learning … [Read more...] about Learnist Unveils iOS App, Premium Content
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Adobe Combines Tools to Create Unified Publishing Process
As device consumption among consumers continues to grow and more readers rely on their tablets and smartphones for digital reading, the number of available titles also continues to grow. What many consumers may not be aware of, however, is the power behind their digital magazines, newspapers, enhanced ebooks, and more: Adobe. Known for its Digital Publishing Suite that is … [Read more...] about Adobe Combines Tools to Create Unified Publishing Process
Reddit Enables Users to Create Open-Source Journalism
The internet isn't just for cat videos and goofy memes, it would seem. The power of social media has already been linked to a number of worthwhile causes and intense change, such as Twitter's role in the Arab Spring. Now, a whole new form of journalism and digital news publishing is being beta tested by Reddit, the platform that brings users slightly less intense content on a … [Read more...] about Reddit Enables Users to Create Open-Source Journalism
Pubsoft, Vidalhia Sign to Deal to Foster Prison Publishing
Digital publishing has arguably opened more doors to publication than any other innovation since Guttenberg's press, but there are still segments of the writing population for whom publishing is still virtually off-limits. Sadly, it's not only geographical or language barriers that stops authors from reaching wider audiences with their work, sometimes it is actual, tangible, … [Read more...] about Pubsoft, Vidalhia Sign to Deal to Foster Prison Publishing
Towerbabel and the Launch of Social Writing
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
More News on Authors Behaving Badly, Using Well-Known Authors’ Names as Pseudonyms
In an interesting chain of events, ebook retailers' crackdown on erotica titles that were mislabeled as children's content--intentionally or not--led to another crackdown of sorts. During the process of examining the titles in their online stores more carefully, retailers like Amazon enforced an existing aspect of their terms and conditions that prohibits using famous book … [Read more...] about More News on Authors Behaving Badly, Using Well-Known Authors’ Names as Pseudonyms
Snooki Sells More Books than Lynn Shepherd, and That Makes Me Happy
Critics and industry watchers can hypothesize all they want to about what's wrong with publishing. Is it these upstart authors coming along and thinking they deserve to publish their garbage? Is it the publishers who wield their iron-leashed authority while practically stealing from authors with their abusive contracts? No. It's articles like this one by author Lynn … [Read more...] about Snooki Sells More Books than Lynn Shepherd, and That Makes Me Happy
eBook Review: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
Verdict: 1 Star Congratulations go to Ms. Catton, as she has the distinct honor of being the first-ever recipient of a one star review from Good e-Reader. Even Willie Nelson's literary diarrhea musings from his life on the road while high got two stars, mostly for having a cool-looking cover. I'm sure she is not all that affected by the news, having won the Man Booker Prize … [Read more...] about eBook Review: The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton
New Legislation in South Africa Mandates eBook Retailers to Register as VAT Vendors
The recent announcement by the South African finance ministry that has made it mandatory for all foreign vendors selling ebooks in the country to register as VAT vendors has been applauded by the local industry. The Publishers' Association of South Africa as well as the South African Booksellers' Association has been pushing for just a clause which them claim will make it a … [Read more...] about New Legislation in South Africa Mandates eBook Retailers to Register as VAT Vendors
Anne Rice Defends Authors from Online Bullying
Once you reach a certain point in your career, regardless of what field your specialty lies in, you're afforded a level of "I don't care"-ness that allows you to put up with personal attacks from nameless critics in a way that doesn't impact your day to day life very much. Even better, you can also afford to reach out on behalf of people who are not quite yet at your level and … [Read more...] about Anne Rice Defends Authors from Online Bullying
The Beauty in Digital Publishing
What is a story? More importantly, what is publishing? Is it only books, and if so, are ebooks books? Even better, can a series of 200 Instagram pictures be considered an ebook, if read altogether? According to author and creator Shelley Jackson, yes, they can. Jackson's project, which portrays a different word exquisitely written in nature as a stand alone image in her … [Read more...] about The Beauty in Digital Publishing