The Pigeonhole: Serialised, sociable and gamified reading
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Digital Book Publishing & Technology
Stay current on tech and digital trends in book publishing. From e-books to online distribution, learn how to succeed in the digital age.
Kindle Instant Preview reinforces Amazon’s dominance
Ebook preview widgets have been around for quite awhile but when was the last time you saw one on a blog or website? I can’t…
On audio books and their future: Ali Muirden interview
Ali Muirden divides her time between running her own digital publishing company, Creative Content and working on a freelance and consultancy basis for her publishing…
My 2016 ebook marketplace hopes and wishes
Rather than speculate on what might happen in the ebook sector this year I thought it would be wiser to simply list the developments I’d…
3D: On fast cars and ebooks
In the first of an occasional series, 3D: Three Questions on Design, Toby Hopkins of Getty Images asks Martin Stockham, the man behind new electronic…
2016: A license to innovate
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License, on rights and licensing in 2016. The advent of any New Year…
Hope and Confidence: An optimistic future for publishing
Some weeks ago, I was explaining the returns system and how integral it had become to the industry to a friend. “I get it,” he…
The code less travelled: Why I became a Rails Girl for the day and why we should all care more about coding
Recently, I seem to have encountered coding at every turn. It all started with an article by Jasmin Kirkbride here on BookMachine, back in April.…
A cyber challenge for 2016
This is a guest post from Tom Chalmers, Managing Director at IPR License, on publishing and the growing risk of cyber attacks. On the back…
Companion publishing: How digital can complement print
The beauty of the web is that feedback for what I write here is spread across a variety of platforms. These days it seems most…
How readers will become curators and resellers [OPINION]
It’s easy to think that today’s ebook is as good as it gets. Publishers are mostly satisfied with the current print-under-glass model and, unfortunately, flattening…
Reading aloud: merging audio and text just got a lot easier
You may know that the modern EPUB3 standard has an inbuilt ability to hold audio and video, but one of the most intriguing aspects of…
On experimenting with digital: Nathan Connolly interview
Nathan Connolly is the Publishing Director of Dead Ink Books. Dead Ink was founded in 2010, set up with funding from Arts Council England as…
The new must-have tool for publishers? Media monitoring
Gone are the days when publishers can rest on their laurels. With disruptive players creating a new environment of competitiveness within the sector, there has…
Content is no longer king. Here are 5 things that are.
This is a guest post by Nick Robinson. Nick has worked in ELT publishing since 2004 and in 2012 he founded the world’s first ELT author…
