One of the great paradoxes of digital publishing and children's content is that children and teens were the demographics who were at one point the least likely to consume digital content. Whether over the original concerns from parents of expensive device damage and enhanced ebooks being likened to video games, or the young adults' own feedback that reading was for paper, … [Read more...] about Scholastic Talks Children’s Publishing and Digital Content at Frankfurt Book Fair
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McGraw-Hill Education Offers New Platform Aimed at Struggling Readers Faced with CCSS
Anyone who follows education news in the US is aware of the strict requirements and goals of the Common Core standards for public education. What many are criticizing as a national curriculum--as thought it was wrong to determine that every US high school graduate would meet the same standards for education--actually serves to ensure that every student whose education had been … [Read more...] about McGraw-Hill Education Offers New Platform Aimed at Struggling Readers Faced with CCSS
Simon and Schuster Opens Select eBook Titles to Public School Classroom Use
Once the current digital revolution took hold, a future focused on digital reading seemed to be a possibility. The education sphere, to be sure, was eager to embrace the portability, the durability, and--perhaps above all--the cost effectiveness of ebooks. Unfortunately, buying digital editions for public school classrooms isn't as streamlined as it is for the general … [Read more...] about Simon and Schuster Opens Select eBook Titles to Public School Classroom Use
Smartphone Reading May Help Dyslexic Readers
Digital reading has offered up a host of benefits to readers. Everything from price and portability of content, to the option to increase font size has led to a broad adoption of e-reading across a wide variety of devices. One of the surprises in e-reading was the growing adoption of smartphone reading, as many critics still insist they could never enjoy content on "that little … [Read more...] about Smartphone Reading May Help Dyslexic Readers
Rockstand And Vodafone Join Hands To Allow eBook Purchases From Mobile Balance
Rockstand, one of the biggest ebook and emagazine application in India, today announced its partnership with Vodafone, who happens to be the leading provider of telecommunication services in the country. As part of the deal, Vodafone subscribers who wish to buy books or magazines from Rockstand can do so with the recharge amount they have in their balance. This will make for … [Read more...] about Rockstand And Vodafone Join Hands To Allow eBook Purchases From Mobile Balance
Amazon Japan Overtaking the Competition
One of Amazon's most recent global marketplace initiations has been in Japan, where device manufacturers at one time found a slow adoption of digital reading. Rakuten, at one time the leading e-reader manufacturer in Japan--and now parent company of Kobo--reigned supreme, but that's quickly changing, due in large part to Amazon's model as much as to its devices. So what is … [Read more...] about Amazon Japan Overtaking the Competition
Readers Digest UK Undergoes Restructure, Drops 75% of Employees
Print magazine and newspaper publishers are already feeling the effects of the surge in popularity of e-readers and tablets, to the point that some are shutting their doors. The latest casualty may be Readers Digest. The UK arm of the company that was facing financial and legal trouble a couple of years ago was thought to have been saved by the purchase of RD by Better … [Read more...] about Readers Digest UK Undergoes Restructure, Drops 75% of Employees
Pew Research Center Survey: More People Are Reading eBooks
Despite the predictions from several years ago that digital reading was a fad-like flash-in-the-pan, a recent telephone survey conducted by the Pew Research Center of nearly 3,000 American consumers ages sixteen and older shows that ebook consumption is on the rise. In keeping with the later predictions that print and digital would co-exist side by side, the rise in e-reading … [Read more...] about Pew Research Center Survey: More People Are Reading eBooks
SourceBooks and the Genuinely Interactive Book
When the world of tablet reading exploded, so did the numbers of people looking for ways to enhance books, thereby almost changing what it meant to read. Voice-over narration, embedded soundtracks that shift with the action in the story, even hyperlinks or pop-up pictures and videos were added to titles. Children’s titles seemed to benefit the most from the engaging features, … [Read more...] about SourceBooks and the Genuinely Interactive Book
Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite Developing Publisher Content for Smartphones
GoodeReader recently spoke with representatives from Adobe about the features of the industry popular Digital Publishing Suite, specifically as it relates to giving publishers control over digital editions of magazines, optimized for both the growing tablet market and the emerging smartphone reading market. Lynly Schambers-Lenox, Adobe’s Group Publishing Marketing Manager for … [Read more...] about Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite Developing Publisher Content for Smartphones
How Geography Affects Books in the Digital Age
Neelie Kroes for The Guardian UK posted a poignant and interesting opinion piece last week that asks some of the questions that rest in the back of most digital readers’ minds. Basically, readers want to know why we are still treating ebooks in much the same way as their computerized counterparts, and what are we to do about it? “In the United States, where ebooks are 31% of … [Read more...] about How Geography Affects Books in the Digital Age
Barnes and Noble Offers Discount Subscriptions with Nook Purchase
Even though the holiday shopping season has wound down, Barnes and Noble is trying to ramp up sales of its Nook line of e-readers with a discount promotion for consumers who take advantage of its periodicals line of subscriptions. The book retailer issued this press release today: “Barnes & Noble today announced two exciting deals that offer customers amazing savings … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Offers Discount Subscriptions with Nook Purchase
Barnes & Noble to Go International
Barnes & Noble has made some broad announcements about its plans to expand its digital reading platform and devices into the UK, but so far the time frame and other details are unknown. B&N CEO William Lynch made the statement last month that Barnes & Noble would be bringing its NOOK family of e-readers to the UK within the next four months, but so far that is the … [Read more...] about Barnes & Noble to Go International
Pottermore Survey Seeks Feedback Before Ebook Release
One of the greatest digital publishing coups happened earlier this year when J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, displayed some of the boldest initiative yet by retaining the digital rights to her works, separating from her agency, and making her ebooks available exclusively through her own website, forgoing the percentage that would have gone to the major ebook … [Read more...] about Pottermore Survey Seeks Feedback Before Ebook Release
Ebook of the Week: Amber Scott
Indie author Amber Scott, one of the co-founders of the Indie Book Collective, returns to GoodEReader.com’s Ebook of the Week feature with another one of her titles, A Love Soul Deep. This title is available for Kindle by clicking HERE, or by leaving a valid email address in the comments section below to receive it in a different format. About the book: "On a weekender with … [Read more...] about Ebook of the Week: Amber Scott
Google and Bloomsbury’s Public Library Online
Public libraries and the ebook content they provide have made news earlier this week with the discovery that not all U.S.-based public libraries are allowed to purchase the same digital titles for their patrons while using OverDrive’s catalogs of materials. But a step in the right direction toward equal access to content for public library patrons has been made in the UK … [Read more...] about Google and Bloomsbury’s Public Library Online