This is the final article in a series looking at a new category of online ebook production tools. The earlier reviews looked at PressBooks and Vook. Unlike Vook and PressBooks,… Read more >
August 2, 2012 ebook formats, ebook production, Educational publishing 0 Read more >
This post is a follow-up to my earlier review of PressBooks. Like PressBooks, Vook is one of the new breed of online ebook publishing tools that have emerged over the last few… Read more >
July 12, 2012 digital publishing 101, ebook production, reviews 8 Read more >
One of the challenges ebook publishers face is poor ebook production tools. The tools that are out there are usually aimed at techies. When Apple introduced iBooks Author earlier this year —… Read more >
The following post is reproduced from my column in the May 2012 edition of News on Bookselling, the magazine of the Australian Booksellers Association. Booksellers were dealt two blows last… Read more >
May 28, 2012 analysis, bookselling, Google eBooks 3 Read more >
In a pre-holiday announcement on its blog, Google quietly pulled the plug on its attempt to help booksellers to sell ebooks: it announced the end of its reseller programme in… Read more >
April 10, 2012 bookselling, ebook readers, ebook stores, Google, Google eBooks 7 Read more >
[This article was originally published in the March 2012 issue of News on Bookselling, the magazine of the Australian Booksellers Association.] This year will mark the fifth anniversary of Amazon’s… Read more >
March 26, 2012 analysis, ebook formats, ePub, iPad, Kindle 3 Read more >
A company which believes it is Australia’s first digital-only trade publisher launched last week with a roster of titles from five Australian authors. Really Blue Books publisher Sarah Bailey sees an opening… Read more >
Technology researcher Forrester released a survey of US publishing executives yesterday which uncovered an interesting disconnect: 82% were optimistic about the digital transition of books, but only 28% thought their… Read more >
January 25, 2012 Amazon, analysis, bookselling, business 1 Read more >
Apple made several announcements yesterday which can drive the textbook’s digital transformation — or, in Steve Jobs’ more colourful phrase, its “digital destruction”. My pick is that this will be… Read more >
January 21, 2012 Apple, copyright, ebook formats, Educational publishing, iOS, iPad 2 Read more >
Australian bookselling icon Dymocks last week launched a self-publishing service called D Publishing. While the service looks fine, its publishing contract is dreadful. Even if you’re not in Australia, you… Read more >
December 16, 2011 analysis, business, copyright, news 11 Read more >