The benefits of animation for educational publishers [VIEWPOINT]
This is a guest post from Nicola Esson of HL Studios, sponsors of BookMachine Oxford, happening this Thursday 6th September at the Ashmolean Dining Room.…
Digital Book Publishing & Technology
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Five questions for Sophia Blackwell [INTERVIEW]
Sophia Blackwell is an author, performance poet and cabaret performer. In her spare time, she’s also a marketer at Bloomsbury. Having released her debut collection…
Would you sell advertising space in your book, app, or e-book?
Publishers generally don’t sell advertising space. There’s an underlying fear that this will have a negative impact on readers. What is this fear based on…
Are e-readers teaching us to read again? [INFOGRAPHIC]
A team of designers and researchers over at OnlineTeachingDegree.com have designed an infographic highlighting how they believe e-readers are inspiring us (or folks in the…
Rise of the Machines: Amazon e-book sales pass print
It’s a moment everyone always knew was coming, and it’s finally here: Amazon said yesterday that sales of Kindle downloads have officially sailed past print…
Story time for digital publishers
This a guest post from Simon Appleby, who runs Bookswarm, a digital agency specialising in delivering projects for authors, agents and publishers. Simon has 15 years’ experience of…
Your Innovation Ain’t All That
or The Future of Storytelling Might Not Be So Fancy Two weeks ago, a friend of mine, knowing my penchant for all things techy and…
The Odd Couple: Bundling Print and Digital Books
Last week, after my observation that Waterstones is not in a better position to offer bundling now than it was last year, I had a…
Retailer Plus Social Reading Equals: What Game Is Anobii Playing?
If, like me, you spend a lot of time on the internet (like… y’know… enough to clock when adverts change on the same web pages)…
Tor Swaps DRM for PR
Last week’s breaking news from the USA was that Macmillan SFF imprint Tor have pledged to their readers that by ‘early July 2012, their entire…
Audible basically the witch from Hansel & Gretel now
Earlier this month, Audible announced that it would start paying authors whose audiobooks are listed on any of its sites what it called an ‘honorarium’…
Can Audio Books Be Cool?
I’m not going to lie – I’ve always thought audio books were lame as hell. The disappointing nephew of the hardback; the ugly duckling of…
Google Play with Themselves
You’d be forgiven if you missed the launch of Google’s storefront in the UK – the somewhat optimistically-named ‘Google Play’, which ties together their bookstore…
5 questions for Dean Johnson about iPads [INTERVIEW]
Dean Johnson is the Executive Creative Director at Brandwidth and author of #1 Design iBook ‘Digital Publishing: The Next Steps’. He is also a…
Inanimate Alice is 9 years old. How’s she doing? [REPORT]
Welcome to the world of Inanimate Alice, a truly digital novel that has taken the educational world by storm. The idea for Alice first came…
