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.
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Posted on 10 Mar 2010 around 8pm • Tagged with: eBooks | Publishing | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article
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.
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Posted on 22 Feb 2010 around 10pm • Tagged with: eBooks | Publishing | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article
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.
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Posted on 17 Feb 2010 around 9am • Tagged with: eBooks | Publishing | Technology | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article
epub « WordPress.com Tag Feed says:
The Association of American University Presses (AAUP) recently surveyed its member presses about digital publishing strategies and programs.
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Posted on 12 Feb 2010 around 10am • Tagged with: eBooks | Publishing | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article
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.
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Posted on 10 Feb 2010 around 10pm • Tagged with: eBooks | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article
