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 >
Martin Taylor
August 2, 2012
ebook formats, ebook production, Educational publishingdigital textbooks, e-textbooks, enhanced ebooks, etextbooks, inkling, inkling habitat, rich media, XML
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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 >
Martin Taylor
July 12, 2012
digital publishing 101, ebook production, reviewsebook distribution, ebook editor, ebook production, vook
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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 >
Martin Taylor
June 29, 2012
ebook production, ePub, reviewsebook conversion, ebook editor, how to produce ebooks, PressBooks
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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 >
Martin Taylor
May 28, 2012
analysis, bookselling, Google eBooksagency pricing, Google Ebooks, selling ebooks, white label
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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 >
Martin Taylor
April 10, 2012
bookselling, ebook readers, ebook stores, Google, Google eBooksAustralia, Booktopia, Copia, Dymocks, Google Ebooks, Google Play Books, TitlePage Plus
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[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 >
Martin Taylor
March 26, 2012
analysis, ebook formats, ePub, iPad, Kindle
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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 >
Martin Taylor
February 12, 2012
business, newsAustralian publishing, epublisher
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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 >
Martin Taylor
January 25, 2012
Amazon, analysis, bookselling, businessdigital transformation, digital transition, publishing business management, publishing industry restructuring
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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 >
Martin Taylor
January 21, 2012
Apple, copyright, ebook formats, Educational publishing, iOS, iPadApple, digital textbooks, educational publishing, iBooks 2.0, iBooks Author, iTunes U, iTunes U app, iTunes U Course manager
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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 >
Martin Taylor
December 16, 2011
analysis, business, copyright, newsAustralian publishing, digital rights, Dymocks, publishing contracts, publishing rights, self-publishing
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