Related Articles

• 

  Essential Reading: The Future of the Book from O’Reilly’s Mike Hendrickson

  1046 readersBy Hannah Johnson ESSENTIAL READING: The future of the book by Mike Hendrickson In the wake of the opportunities and challenges discussed at the Tools of Change conference, O’Reilly’s VP of Content Strategy Mike Hendrickson urges the publishing industry, “Let’s change the The Book of the Future before we have to.” What a great and, in my

• Demibooks Launches New Curated E-Bookstore For Children as iPad App

  2399 readers PRESS RELEASE: Demibooks launches Storytime, a curated marketplace for interactive children’s books on the iPad CHICAGO, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Demibooks, Inc. (demibooks.com), a leading digital publishing technologies company, announces the launch of its new reader app, Demibooks® Storytime.  Storytime is a curated, multi-publisher marketplace for interactive children’s books produced on the Demibooks Composer platform. Demibooks now

• 

  Callaway Digital Arts Founder Nicholas Callaway on Building the Publishing Company of the Future

  1180 readers By Jeremy Greenfield, Editorial Director, Digital Book World, @JDGsaid Nicholas Callaway is on a mission to build the publishing company of the future. Callaway, 58, is the founder and chief content officer of Callaway Digital Arts, a New York and San Francisco-based app development and publishing company. Founded in late 2010 with $6 million of series A

• HP Digitizes 365,000 Historic Books for UK Research Community

  466 readers PRESS RELEASE: Over 365,000 Historic Books Made Available Online With Autonomy Revolutionary Online Research Platform Goes Live CAMBRIDGE, England, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Autonomy, an HP Company, today announced that Mimas, a world-class academic data centre based at the University of Manchester which provides researchers in the UK with key information assets, has launched a new pioneering

• HP Digitizes 365,000 Historic Books for UK Research Community

  511 readers PRESS RELEASE: Over 365,000 Historic Books Made Available Online With Autonomy Revolutionary Online Research Platform Goes Live CAMBRIDGE, England, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Autonomy, an HP Company, today announced that Mimas, a world-class academic data centre based at the University of Manchester which provides researchers in the UK with key information assets, has launched a new pioneering

• 

  Jason Epstein sees print on demand, small publishers as key to future of publishing

  1794 readersIt’s a cliché that the elderly are out of touch with the future, and prefer to cling to the way things were in the past rather than moving forward into the future. But there are plenty of exceptions to every rule, and 83-year-old Jason Epstein, the man behind the Espresso “ATM for books” is one

• 

  Adobe To Layoff 750 People & Focus On Digital Publishing Biz

  1424 readersAdobe is restructuring its business, giving up on trying to create flash for mobile devices, and instead focusing on digital media and marketing. As part of the restructuring, Adobe will lay off 750 full time employees in North America and Europe. According to a press release, the company is planning to invest in the

• 

  Comparing a news encyclopedia and fan wikis

  912 readersThe Nieman Journalism Lab has just announced Encyclo, an “encyclopedia of the future of news.” With 184 entries at launch, the encyclopedia provides background on the various entities and people who are driving innovation in news publishing and e-publishing. There are a few entries on e-book matters (most notably Apple and Amazon) as they touch

• 

  HTML 11 Study Group Up and Running

  2897 readersA new HTML 11 Study Group has formed, and it’s in the early planning stages of picking new tags to support in HTML 11, which is 6 generations down the line. HTML 5, the core tech of the web, is slowly working its way through finalization, and sho...

• 

  Flat World Knowledge To Do Away With Free Digital Textbooks

  390 readersFlat World Knowledge, a company that has built itself on the idea that everyone should have access to textbooks, is going to start charging for all of its content. As of January 1, 2013, the site, which currently offers online content for free, will charge for all of the digital textbook content that it distributes. According