Wednesday, March 10, 2010
E-Book Giveaways Correlate to Higher Print Sales
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
New Tool for Rewriting E-Textbooks
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
The Wired Tablet App: A Video Demonstration
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
AAUP members: ebook output formats
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, February 10, 2010
Javascript ePub Readers
Ajaxian says:
eBooks have gone mainstream, and right now the open ePub format is getting a lot of attention, being the iPad's book format of choice. Often overlooked in gadget-centric media is the fact that ePub is based on web standards, and therefore amenable to being rendered in the browser, sans plugins.
Read the article here from Ajaxian.
