ENTRIES TAGGED "mobile"
Q&A with Developer Who Turns Ebooks into iPhone Applications
Tom Peck transforms ebooks into individual iPhone applications. In this Q&A, Peck discusses his development process and consumer response.
A Big Boost to Books as Apps?
Books as standalone apps have already proven popular enough for Apple to add "Books" as a category. There are several important implications of this for publishers.
Smithsonian Advertises Via Bluetooth
The Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery are sending out Bluetooth tethers to passers-by. From a Smithsonian press release: … this new medium of advertising prompts Bluetooth phone users to opt-in to receive a free downloadable message … Bluetooth-enabled bus shelters, located in Washington, D.C.'s major pedestrian areas, will deploy a silent prompt to mobile…
Mobile Frenzy Feeds Mobile Carriers
During the "2018: Life on the Net" panel at the Fortune Brainstorm: Tech conference, Joichi Ito noted that money sometimes follows money in a not necessarily thoughtful manner. One example is in mobile, where the mobile frenzy is in actuality pumping very significant amounts of money into the carriers' pockets. It's an important point to remember. Here's the clip from…
Survey of Book Industry Reaction to New iPhone and App Store
The new iPhone/App Store has inspired a lively debate about publishing's role in digital content and software development. In this survey post, we catalog a variety of viewpoints from across the Web.
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Sittin' Here, Watching The Market Go By (Booksquare) Since there has been significant interest in using the iPhone as an ereader, I was, well, expecting amazing things from the publishing industry. Hopes. Dashed. On a weekend when headlines were there for the grabbing and customers were searching for both toys and content, the publishing industry, perhaps practicing summer hours,…
Mobile Barcode Scanners and Retail Stores on Collision Course
Ilya Vedrashko points out a near-term future scenario in which retail sites are going to have to entirely rethink what integration into online services means: The obvious future of in-store experience: you find something you like, reach into your pocket for a small device, scan the barcode, and the device tells you whether and where the same product is…
Ebook Adoption Could Come from Mobile Apps, Not Hardware
Martyn Daniels speculates on the real breakthrough for Apple — its store — and the ramifications for ebooks; particularly, who is best positioned to take advantage of providing tools to the market: Many have said that if Apple were to create an ebook reader then the market would take off. Others have agreed that the content and it[s] packaging would…
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Ebooks and the Iphone (Publishing Frontier) So by selling books as $5 iPhone books instead of $7 paperbacks, the publisher makes $0.90 per book. And, of course, if the publisher charged $6.99 for the iPhone book, the numbers would be $4.89 received from Apple – $0.70 royalty – $0.05 PPB [printing, paper, binding] – $0.40 art, promotion, etc = $3.74,…
Researchers Develop Dual-Display E-Reader
Researchers from Berkeley and the University of Maryland have built a dual-display e-reader prototype that uses traditional book-reading navigation (i.e. page turns, flipping the cover under, etc.). From the New Scientist: The two leaves can be opened and closed to simulate turning pages, or even separated to pass round or compare documents. When the two leaves are folded back,…