One of the things that reading consumers lost with the transition to a digital book purchasing environment is the ability to walk into a well-stocked bookstore and browse the shelves, picking up books with enticing titles or covers, flipping them over to read the blurb, and maybe reading the first few chapters of an attention getting book. The loss of this level of interaction … [Read more...] about YUDU’s BookSnacking Revamps Bookstore Browsing for eBooks
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YUDU Updates Interface for Digital Publishing
Since 2007, UK-based cloud publishing support provider YUDU has been offering solutions for a wide variety of content creators in the digital sphere, creating both web-based and app solutions for their clients. But one running theme at this year's event is the shift towards a more user-friendly and publisher-focused platform, changes that have been incorporated from a wide … [Read more...] about YUDU Updates Interface for Digital Publishing
Finding the Best eBook, Print Price Point for Optimum Sales
When computer how-to book publisher In Easy Steps, founded in 1991, looked to release digital editions of its titles, there was no shortage of digital developers ready to create interactive, enhanced app books of the company's titles. By working with UK-based YUDU, its series of titles was released to great reviews. "For about a year, we've been working with YUDU," explained … [Read more...] about Finding the Best eBook, Print Price Point for Optimum Sales
Bookseller’s FutureBook Innovation Awards 2012
The final presentation at this year's FutureBook event, hosted by The Bookseller and sponsored by Kobo, Ingram, Atwood Tate, Nielsen, and YUDU, was to give out the Innovation awards in a large number of diverse categories that spanned the major functions in digital publishing. Hundreds of nominations were made in each of the eight categories. "One of the reasons that we got … [Read more...] about Bookseller’s FutureBook Innovation Awards 2012
YUDU and the Future of Books
Richard Stephenson, CEO of YUDU, spoke to GoodeReader this morning about the importance of events like FutureBook in terms of bringing together industry professionals to move alongside the changing concept of books. One dynamic of events such as this one includes the recognition that all facets of the publishing industry still have important contributions to make, despite the … [Read more...] about YUDU and the Future of Books
FutureBook Conference, Digital Innovation Awards Announced
Registration is open for The Bookseller’s third annual FutureBook Conference is slated for early next month, and like most conferences it will highlight some of the biggest names in the digital publishing industry. What is different about this event, however, is a startling admission from its blog. According to Sam Missingham, “Digital is no longer siloed, existing as an … [Read more...] about FutureBook Conference, Digital Innovation Awards Announced
YUDU’s The Hobbit eBook Created via iBooks Author
YUDU’s digital publishing platform, which addresses a wide variety of industry needs for digital content, released its first Warner Brothers collaborative title this month, a companion guide to the upcoming The Hobbit film release. Not only featuring a storybook edition of J.R.R. Tolkien’s legendary book, the digital versions—five different interactive titles in all, each … [Read more...] about YUDU’s The Hobbit eBook Created via iBooks Author