Move over, tired old ebooks. Make way for a whole new format for digital reading. As if the advent of dedicated e-readers and PC or tablet-based reading apps wasn’t innovative enough, a new design for electronic reading has gained widespread popularity: digital books via text messaging. Popular in Japan, entire ebooks are being sent to subscribers’ cell phones in bite-sized … [Read more...] about New Formats for Digital Publishing and e-Reading
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Oceanhouse Media Expands Its Catalog of Enhanced Ebooks
Oceanhouse Media has developed a large fan base for its work, most of which is centered around enhanced ebooks and fully interactive reading content for children. With the release of dozens of full-color and audio embedded app books for children, many of which include large numbers of titles from juvenile literature icon Dr. Seuss, it has become a mainstay source of content for … [Read more...] about Oceanhouse Media Expands Its Catalog of Enhanced Ebooks
Sourcebooks CEO Sheds Light on Digital Future at DBW 2012
Dominique Raccah, CEO of Sourcebooks publishers, spoke to GoodEReader at Digital Book World about the trends in enhanced digital content, especially as they pertain to an older audience of juvenile readers. With so much content being produced for young readers with integrated features like games and coloring books, it often feels like the middle grade and young adult readers … [Read more...] about Sourcebooks CEO Sheds Light on Digital Future at DBW 2012
Digital Media Brings the Reader into the Book
GoodEReader.com reported last week on whole new interactive capabilities in electronic reading, such as the newly coined reality literature that allows the reader to engage with the story in never before experienced ways. The technology of e-reading allows authors and publishers to incorporate these features into downloadable ebooks, along with a wide variety of extra material … [Read more...] about Digital Media Brings the Reader into the Book
Wiley, Float Mobile Learning Team Up to Develop Enhanced Ebook Apps
With the variety of learning styles found among individuals, it’s important that non-fiction and instructional trade books find a way to reach learners of every modality. So when John Wiley and Sons, a leading print publisher of non-fiction and trade titles, sought a way to reach readers through more than just words on a page, they forged a partnership with Float Mobile … [Read more...] about Wiley, Float Mobile Learning Team Up to Develop Enhanced Ebook Apps
The Year of the Enhanced Ebook
Enhanced ebooks appeared in digital platforms shortly after the floodgates opened for electronic reading, many of which were app books created by self-published digital authors with the technological know-how to develop and market their own works. Some of the features that qualify ebooks as enhanced include audio voiceover, embedded graphics, and a massive complement of … [Read more...] about The Year of the Enhanced Ebook
Crayola’s Digital Shift to Ebooks
Crayola has been known for decades for its crayons and markers, but in the last several years the children’s art supply manufacturer has been branching out with more and more amazing creative tools for kids. Earlier this year the company developed an app with Griffin Technology that allowed kids to color with their fingers or with an optional iMarker stylus on tablet devices, … [Read more...] about Crayola’s Digital Shift to Ebooks
Papercut and UsTwo Devises a New Method for Multimedia eBooks
Sweeden based Papercut and United Kingdom's UsTwo have been busy developing a new platform for a new breed of enhanced ebooks. They are adopting a "wait and see" approach to see where this new endeavour takes them. Papercut just launched for the Apple iPad and Jonas Lennermo, Head of Publishing at UsTwo, says that Papercut is best thought of as a publishing platform, … [Read more...] about Papercut and UsTwo Devises a New Method for Multimedia eBooks
The Rising Popularity of Enhanced E-books
This year’s BookExpo America and IDPF Digital Book Conference brought exciting announcements in extremely opposite ends of the e-reader spectrum. On the one hand, two major players in the game unveiled to great fanfare and applause new versions of their e-reader devices that brought back the simplicity of reading by promoting a pared down version of a touch screen e-reader. … [Read more...] about The Rising Popularity of Enhanced E-books