- 5 Reasons Why E-Books Aren’t There Yet
June 3, 2011
There are no two ways about it: E-books are here to stay. Unless something as remarkable as Japan’s reversion to the sword occurs, digital books are the 21st century successor to print. And yet the e-book is fundamentally flawed. There are some aspects to print book culture that e-books can’t r...
- iBooks vs. Kindle vs. Google Books for iPad Reading - The Atlantic
May 26, 2011
iBooks vs. Kindle vs. Google Books for iPad ReadingThe AtlanticI really like reading books on the iPad, too, but Ive been haunted with anxiety over which platform I should use: the native iBooks, Google Books, or Amazons Kindle app. My natural biases fall towards Google Books -- though I hate the we...
- The Blagger's Guide To...Self-Publishing - The Independent
May 29, 2011
The Blaggers Guide To...Self-PublishingThe IndependentHocking, who worked in care homes for people with disabilities, had not sold a single book before April 2010, when she started self-publishing her Trylle trilogy (Switched, Torn and Ascend) in ebook form for the Amazon Kindle. By February of this...
- 3 Things We Want to See in the Next Kindle - Forbes (blog)
June 1, 2011
International Business Times3 Things We Want to See in the Next KindleForbes (blog)Amazon is well positioned to advance the Kindle platform much faster and further than they have in any 6-12 month period up to now. Heres where I hope they end up between now and the middle of next year: An insanely i...
- Which Links Shared on Twitter Are Mobile Friendly?
May 22, 2011
A mobile friendly version of the Mashable article
Recently Mashable published interesting numbers showing that Twitter users are likely to share a story without actually reading it.
In my opinion, one of the major reasons is that users are afraid of opening links on their mobile phones. And as muc...
- Self-Publishing: How You Can Sell Globally
May 20, 2011
Check all articles from Technology for self-publishers series.
Amazons KDP dashboards lets you select countries for book distribution
On a surface it sounds obvious. Sure, if I publish a book at Amazon and Amazon delivers Kindle devices and content to more than 100 countries, that means I have a...
- The future’s bright, the future’s mobile
May 6, 2011
Alastair Horne is Innovations Manager at Cambridge University Press and also blogs for Futurebook. Follow him on Twitter at @pressfuturist.
In the final part of his report on this year’s London Book Fair Digital Conference, Alastair Horne considers the impact of mobile on the publishing indus...
- Amubose – new Amazon search tool
May 14, 2011
Some time back I griped about the poor design of the Kindle Store (it doesn’t mimic my bookstore buying experience, search is crap, etc). Mike Cane has found a site that helps with one of those points.
Amubose is a project developed by Luke Seelenbinder and it lets you search for a whole bunch of...
- 6 Reasons Tablets Are Ready for the Classroom
May 17, 2011
Vineet Madan is Vice President of McGraw-Hill Higher Education eLabs, which works with colleges and universities, professors and students along with technology partners to develop innovative, cutting-edge digital educational tools to improve the way instructors teach and students learn.Since the...
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