Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Epicenter says:
Giving away an e-book seems to lead to at least a spike in sales of the print version, Researchers at Brigham Young University have found, especially for fiction.
Read the article here from Epicenter.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Inside Higher Ed says:
Macmillan, a major textbook publisher, is today introducing a new service that will let faculty members customize digital textbooks, adding and subtracting chapters, and to rewrite individual sentences and paragraphs, The New York Times reported.
Read the article here from Inside Higher Ed.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Wired Epicenter says:
Last week Jeremy Clark from Adobe and I unveiled the first glimpse of the Wired Reader at TED. Above, you’ll see a video, narrated by Jeremy and Wired Creative Director Scott Dadich, who led our tablet team, that shows more. It explains why the tablet is such a groundbreaking opportunity for magazines such as ours.
Friday, February 12, 2010
epub « WordPress.com Tag Feed says:
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) recently surveyed its member presses about digital publishing strategies and programs.
Read the article here from epub « WordPress.com Tag Feed.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Here is what Techcruch reports:
The iPad will support the popular ePub format and authors will be able to embed multimedia such as photos, videos, and audio files directly into books. That’s a cool feature for standard books and an outstanding feature for textbooks. Imagine your history book containing video and audio snippets.
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March 11, 10 - 06:04 pm
I'm amazed at the number of books on HTML5 that Amazon have for pre-order.
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