January 2011
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eBooks as Brand →
Radian6 provides organizations with the software platform to listen, measure and engage in conversations across the social web. One way they reinforce their brand is to provide free eBooks on topics relating to using social media and the web to listen, measure and engage in conversations across the social web.
This material could easily have been communicated on a website directly but as an...
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“Sometimes the book is the better option. The quality of the images, the...”
– Joost Grootens, Book Designer
New York Times, Designing Books for a Digital Age, January 30, 2011
“Why are books the length they are? Is it because it inherently takes 300 pages...”
– Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine
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Scrapping B&N's Nook 3G
Scrapping B&N’s Nook 3G [source: Shelf Awareness]
The rumor mill is spinning regarding Barnes & Noble’s Nook 3G e-reader. Based on “hard evidence from within B&N,” Engadget reported the device “is being discontinued, with sales to seemingly continue until stock is exhausted,” and noted the company “is encouraging retail partners to...
Digital allows publishing to target an audience of... →
Written Images offers art book collectors tomes so limited in publication that not even the most highbrow of aesthete print emporiums is likely to stock them. Indeed, every book published is essentially a first edition. The collaboration between more than 70 international media artists and developers employs generative art apps to deliver the images that fill the pages. (No two copies are the ...
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iPhone 5 and iPad 2 to have NFC with new mobile... →
Now you will be able to walk into Barnes & Noble, browse the shelves for the book you want, download it to your iPad or use your iPad or iPhone as a debit card and purchase the hardcopy.
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Top Google Editions eBook subjects by volume of...
Romance Biography Thrillers Finance Young adult Sci-fi/fantasy Politics Diet/fitness
~ Abe Murray, Google at DBW
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Inside Independent Digital Book Publishing and... →
Mark Coker has developed a powerful platform and service to deliver digital books to significant sellers such as Borders, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.com, as well as smaller specialty and niche outlets. In this interview, SmashWords’ founder provides a great amount of insight into the independent side of the digital book publishing industry. He also discusses his motivation behind the...
