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  What’s More Fairly Priced at 99 Cents, Nonfiction or a Novel?

  631 readersAt 99 cents for a “digital nonfiction short,” it feels like an honest transaction. By Edward Nawotka How many times have you picked up a book of narrative nonfiction and though to yourself, “Wow, that would have been better as a magazine article”? It happens all the time. It’s hard to shake the feeling that, often times,

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  Beyond the E-book: Creating a “3-D Narrative” on Screens

  2001 readersShould publishers simply be transfer the printed page, unaltered, to the screen? No, especially when there is so much more you can do, argues Kirk Bowe, CTO, of UK app developer TradeMobile. Editorial by Kirk Bowe, CTO, TradeMobile LONDON: The e-book is dead. Let’s be clear: with the transition from paper to electronic screens, which are increasingly

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  Share Your Romance Timeline With Updated eHarmony Facebook App

  726 readersDating website eHarmony has relaunched its “Story of Us” Facebook app for Facebook. It has been upgraded for Facebook’s timeline. The app integrates with a Facebook user’s timeline so that couples can highlight the milestones in their relationships and show how their narrative has played out over time. The app takes data from both a user and their

• Is an 80% ebook world for straight text really in sight?

  2264 readers The recent news that digital revenues have reached approximately 20% at some of the Big Six houses makes me believe that we are on the verge of a tectonic shift in the industry. It provoked me to think through the logical extension of well-established trends and comment recently that

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  David Meerman Scott Talks Tablets

  1087 readersBusiness book author David Meerman Scott thinks that the Kindle Fire is going to change everything for business book publishing. The author of  Newsjacking: How to Inject Your Ideas Into A Breaking News Story and Generate Tons of Media Coverage caught up with eBookNewser for an interview about how tablets change the reading experience for books. EBN:

• New Children’s Book Tells Non-Linear Story and Promises to Get Kids to Eat Their Vegetables

  1626 readers New Children’s Book Tells Non-Linear Story and Promises to Get Kids to Eat Their Vegetables (via SBWire) Nahariya, Israel — (SBWIRE) — 03/17/2013 — Author Shmulik Froimovich has produced a new children’s book that takes full advantage of the features of eBook readers like Amazon’s Kindle. It’s a children’s book that reads in a non-linear fashion,

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  Kobo makes ereading social with Reading Life

  1340 readersFrom the press release: Kobo Introduces Reading Life from Kobo on Vimeo. Kobo, a global eReading service where users can read on any device anywhere in the world, today announced the launch of Reading Life, an industry first social eReading experience. Readers can now track their personal reading history, check-in with characters and places inside

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  Make your own ebook: some unconventional book replacement ideas for your tablet

  784 readers When people think about ebooks, they think about mostly text-based reading of straight, narrative work. But here are some off-the-beaten-track book replacements you can make yourself that save time and money and provide an enhanced experience. 1) Art books. Delphi Classics, a favourite vendor of mine who sells DRM-free bundles of ‘complete works’ by authors in

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  Kobo Is Using Facebook Timeline App To Find Readers

  1643 readersSince launching their timeline app in January, digital reading platform Kobo has seen its traffic from Facebook grow by more than 50 percent. In addition, the company is reporting that a 90 percent increase in daily registrations. Kobo used Open Graph, which lets developers turn a web page into a rich object in a social graph, to implement the

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  DPS Getting Started Guide: Now Available!

  985 readers Digital Publishing Suite Enterprise and Professional customers: your DPS Getting Started Guide is here! If your company just purchased a Digital Publishing Suite license, this comprehensive, step-by-step guide will help your team learn to plan, create, and distribute apps. Similar to the step-by-step guide available for Single Edition customers, this PDF will explore basic concepts and