Are We Asking the Right Questions About Apple’s iBooks Push?
In the last week or so, the news have been full of stores about the impact of Apple’s announcement of iBooks and iBooks authoring software. Fastcompany just posted an interesting article about the many questions Apple’s entry into this space raises. While not providing any answers, sometimes it is more important to ask the right questions: Industry-standard e-book formats or proprietary, protected files? Android or iOS? Cloud-hosted files or local storage? Standalone apps or “Newsstand”? Creator-friendly terms or restrictive EULA? Format integrity or media...
read moreGet Yourself on the Shelf
A simple yet powerful innovation in iOS 5 – the introduction of Newsstand – is rapidly changing the way people buy and read magazines and other periodical and subscription based content. But the opportunity created isn’t just for those with traditional publications. If you are a content owner of any kind – author, blogger, information product owner, etc. – this may well be your entry point in the app store. Wired.com reported this statement from a press release by Ryan Marquis, Pixel Mags founder and COO: “We quickly started to realize just how big of an...
read moreA year is a very long time in publishing
Share Here is a brief section of an interview by AnnArbor.com with Borders CEO Mike Edwards about the ongoing bankruptcy, and his surprised reaction to how fast e-books and tablets have impacted the publishing industry. AnnArbor.com: With e-books, how fast do you see the transition occurring? Are you surprised by how fast it’s occurring already? Edwards: Yes. I joined the company just a little over a year and a half ago. When I joined, e-books were less than 1 percent of the market. The Kindle was out but it didn’t have the traction. The Nook had just been released. The Apple product...
read moreAxiom News features Polymash App
We are extremely pleased that Axiom News has just released an article on our recently released “Embracing Change” app. Below a brief excerpt, to read the full article follow this link. Last year, Stratton-Berkessel published the book Appreciative Inquiry for Collaborative Solutions: 21 Strength-Based Workshops. Since then she became intrigued by the use of tablets like the iPad to consume content. She says she started to see some business applications come out for tablet devices, and thought about how great it would be to turn one of her workshops into an app. ...
read moreAlternatives to Adobe’s Digital Publishing Suite
The tablet market is continuing to exhibit astonishing growth (17 billion in revenue forecasted for mobile applications in 2011 – source: Gartner) It is not surprising that more platforms for digital publishing and porting content onto the tablet format are cropping up. At this week’s O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing conference , one of the more intriguing announcements comes from a French company that has created a digital publishing platform which will go live in March. From their press release today: Aquafadas Digital Publishing Platform offers key advantages in...
read moreAUTO BILD für iPad !
via itunes.apple.com Is it just me, or does it seem that European magazines are way more active in developing iPad and tablet digital publications? Recently there have been a slew of digital magazines released in Europe, and Axel Springer Verlag is just the latest examples of this. It would also appear to me that the pricing and subscription models are more consumer friendly in the EU compared to the US, where publishers seem determined to set an example and train tablet users to expect high pricing models for Magazine Content. So which is the better strategy? Attracting loyal...
read moreSamsung and WoodWing announce cooperation for GALAXY Tab
The first results of the cooperation will be demonstrated to the public during the IFRA Expo in Hamburg, Germany, held on October 4 – 6, 2010. Samsung, a global leader in mobile technology, and WoodWing Software, a supplier of innovative cross-media publishing solutions, today announced a cooperation to bring digital publications to Samsung’s brand-new smart media device, the GALAXY Tab. GALAXY Tab Available to consumers in Europe starting in October 2010, and soon available in the United States and Asia, the GALAXY Tab has a large 7-inch TFT display, for an exciting mobile...
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