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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
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.
Posted on 27 Jan 2010 around 8pm • Tagged with: eBooks | Publishing | Permanent link to this article
Independent bookseller, Foyles, will begin stocking Sony Touch and Pocke ereaders and the BeBook Mini 5" reader. Additionally, the bookseller will open its own ebook webstore with 57,000 titles in EPUB and PDF formats.
You can read more at The Bookseller.
Posted on 29 Oct 2009 around 7pm • Tagged with: eBooks | Publishing | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article
Didn't like it. I mean why would would I want to carry around yet another device?
But the two real reasons I didn't like it:
First off, the text is justified and when you increase the zoom it can look 'orrible. You can't change the paragraph format.
And then of course, it doesn't smell of books. Still I could try this.
Posted on 01 Jul 2009 around 11am • Tagged with: eBooks | Publishing | Technology | Permanent link to this article
TheStreet has a juicy rumor that Barnes & Noble, a store where physical “books” in “paper” form are sold to “customers” who stand in line to pay with “cash” or “forms of credit” is working on an eBook reader, possibly in partnership with Verizon.
Posted on 08 Apr 2009 around 10am • Tagged with: eBooks | Publishing | Discuss this | Permanent link to this article
