This blog started five years ago today, a couple of weeks before Amazon launched the game-changing Kindle and a couple of months after the industry had placed its hopes for… Read more >
October 10, 2012 ebook formats, ePub, Kindle, kobo 0 Read more >
A few weeks ago, I reviewed PressBooks, one of a new breed of online ebook production tools. PressBooks founder Hugh McGuire just announced a handful of updates and some planned… Read more >
August 13, 2012 ebook distribution, ebook formats, ebook production, reviews 0 Read more >
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 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 >
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 >
A couple of weeks ago, the publishing industry’s EPUB3 specification was finally signed off. This was the cue for device makers and e-reading app developers to build it into their next… Read more >
October 25, 2011 Amazon, ebook formats, ebook production, ePub, Kindle 18 Read more >
A big hole in the eReading landscape has just been filled with the launch of independent ebook reading app Bluefire. The free iPad and iPhone app will read ePub formatted… Read more >
October 11, 2010 Adobe, ebook formats, ebook readers, ebook stores, ePub 6 Read more >
Publishers who want to produce their own Kindle-ready ebooks can now do it directly from within the Adobe InDesign page layout software using a free plug-in thatAmazon has just released…. Read more >
October 4, 2010 Amazon, ebook formats, ebook production, Kindle 1 Read more >
The Blio e-reading platform launched today, promising to deliver the Holy Grail of a rich visual experience and good readability on mobile devices. Unfortunately, today’s launch was of the Windows… Read more >
September 29, 2010 blio, ebook formats, ebook readers 3 Read more >
Since the announcement of the iPad, magazine publishers have been scrambling to turn their magazines digital. But there’s one problem: unlike books, which have seen a surge in digital sales, … Read more >
June 22, 2010 ebook formats, ebook readers, iPad, magazines 2 Read more >