ENTRIES TAGGED "publishers"
Mobile apps and development platforms get more consumer centric
The ACS mobile app wins two awards and Conduit joins the mobile app world.
The American Chemical Society (ACS) mobile app wins a couple of "best new eproduct" awards and Conduit is set to launch a free one-stop platform for app development that's easy enough for anyone to use.
Publishers, don't pave that cow path
Lonely Planet's Gus Balbontin on agility in the digital age.
Gus Balbontin, global innovation manager at Lonely Planet, sees a future where agility and seamless experiences across content channels are hallmarks of great publishers.
Ebooks and the threat from "internal constituencies"
Lessons from adjacent media companies can inform publishers' ebook strategies.
Will internal constituencies bias how publishers value print book and ebook business models? Roger Magoulas examines that question and looks at the complementary relationship between print and electronic forms.
Some Tasty Bits from the StartWithXML UK Survey
We've got some raw results from the StartWithXML survey in the UK, and they are very different in some respects from the US survey we did. Some salient points:48.7% of the respondents were in the STM market, followed by trade (24.4%) and college (16%).The bulk of respondents were from large houses – 50.4% – and the rest were evenly divided…
Hearst Gets Into the E-Reader Game
Hearst Corp. is developing its own wireless e-reader that may debut this year. From Fortune: According to industry insiders, Hearst, which publishes magazines ranging from Cosmopolitan to Esquire and newspapers including the financially imperiled San Francisco Chronicle, has developed a wireless e-reader with a large-format screen suited to the reading and advertising requirements of newspapers and magazines. The device and…
Webcast Video and Slides: Social Media for Publishers
Below you'll find the full recording from the recent TOC Webcast, "Social Media for Publishers" with Chris Brogan. Chris has also made his presentation slides available: View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: socialmedia publishers)…
Magazines Now in Google Book Search
Google is adding back issues of magazines to its Book Search index. From the Official Google Blog: Try queries like [obama keynote convention], [hollywood brat pack] or [world's most challenging crossword] and you'll find magazine articles alongside books results. Magazine articles are tagged with the keyword "Magazine" on the search snippet. Over time, as we scan more articles, you'll see…
Random House Expands Ebook Offerings, Embraces EPUB
Random House is pursing digital with a vengeance, recognizing a growth market. From the Huffington Post: The publisher already has more than 8,000 books in the electronic format and will have a digital library of nearly 15,000. The new round of e-books is expected to be completed within months; excerpts can be viewed online through the publisher's Insight browsing…
Point-Counterpoint: Digital Book DRM, the Least Worst Solution
In the second part of a point-counterpoint exchange, Bill McCoy examines two scenarios: a publishing industry that doesn't embrace interoperable DRM, and one that does.
Publishers Need to Get In on the Conversation
Kassia Krozser has a Cluetrain-like manifesto for publishers. From Booksquare: It's time to get your hands dirty, to dig into the real-world conversation. It's a weird thing, and sometimes awkward and uncomfortable, especially if you're accustomed to public relations-speak and the cheerleader behavior that accompanies marketing messages. When you talk directly to real people who read and buy books,…