I am generally skeptical about studies that attempt to predict the future of customer preferences. After all, how many of us would have said in 2006, for instance, that just two years later we would be getting out weather news from an app, or that a few years late…

New Book Release – I Hope Nobody Sees Me, Memoirs of a Teenage Stroke Survivor (via SBWire)
Sarasota, FL — (SBWIRE) — 05/13/2013 — I Hope Nobody Sees Me, Memoirs of a Teenage Stroke Survivor, by Nicolas Sully is a raw, and at times expl…

Tablet PCs are growing exponentially lately so it seems that 2014 or 2015 will be the year that slates finally beat PCs, when it comes to sales. The NPD Displaysearch projections for sales of tablet and notebooks are shown in the graph below.

PC sales are now at a…

Along with its round-the-clock private butlers, fleet of Rolls-Royces, ‘underwater’ restaurant and rooftop tennis court, guests arriving at Dubai’s luxurious Burj Al Arab hotel will now be offered the use of a 24-carat gold iPad for the duration of their s…

By Sonia Sawhney
At last week’s Digital Publishing Summit in New York, Boris Petrovitch Njegosh, Corporate Identity Designer from automobile manufacturer Renault, shared how the company was able to create a best in class publication and extend their re…

Barcelona-based E3 has spent a decade developing a software as a service platform to help literary agencies and others manage rights more efficiently.…

Publishing Perspectives will be attending BookExpo America in New York. If you’ll be there and you have a great story to tell, email us to set up an appointment.…

For most magazine publishers the Apple Newsstand seems like the logical place to launch their tablet editions, and often is the first choice, with other digital newsstand like Google Play and Amazon (and others) considered secondary choices. But for a numb…

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Imagine one of your novels gaining an audience without the support of a major publishing house behind you. According to the Holland Sentinel, that’s just what happened to Colleen Hoover. Her book, Slammed, gained enough…

A new study shows that PC sales and usage are remaining level, while demand and use of mobile devices is rising exponentially. In a few years, mobile usage will be on par with literacy.…

How can publishers optimize their social media outreach? HuffPo’s Andrew Losowsky chats with Ed Nawotka on Twitter about how book marketers can maximize social media networks and influencers.…

On May 20th, 2009, we published our first article here at Publishing Perspectives, and five year’s later, we’ve published more than 4,000 articles in all.…

Today’s big Microsoft event came and with it arrived the Xbox One, the brand new console made by the American giant. A rival to the PS4, unveiled just a month or two ago, this device brings interesting novelty, as shown below. As far as design goes, the squ…

This is as much a thought piece and a kickoff for discussion as a fully fleshed-out article, but it goes like this: Is the end of the golden age of self-publishing already in sight? Part of the reasoning behind this comes from the dawn of the dot-com era just over a…