Ebook signings are powerful marketing tools. That’s because they create an immediate connection between the reader and the author, allowing for exponential social media and word-of-mouth banter—the sort that helps to sell books. And, “this kind of engagement allows authors… Read More

You Tube personality and real world iPad Magician is helping to announce the latest update for Rovio’s Angry Birds on Android and iOS called Abra-Ca-Bacon. The new update to Angry Birds Seasons includes Magic Portals, so the video and talent… Read More

You Tube personality and real world iPad Magician is helping to announce the latest update for Rovio’s Angry Birds on Android and iOS called Abra-Ca-Bacon. The new update to Angry Birds Seasons includes Magic Portals, so the video and talent… Read More

Classrooms at every level are adopting e-textbooks. And, this means your next content consumer could well be a student.    DBW expert blogger Beth Bacon outlines some of the advantages that tablet learning affords those students:   Ebooks are more engaging than… Read More

It’s interesting to me how often people misunderstand the appeal of Amazon and its products. Over at Digital Book World today, Beth Bacon asked, “When will Kindle’s become free?” While it’s not a bad question—and I do think the day… Read More

by Beth Bacon The first three decades of the twenty-first century will go down in history as the years that changed education forever. And the transition is full of turbulence. Will lecture-style classes disappear as digital learning rises? Right now,… Read More

Schools will purchase 50% fewer netbooks in 2013 than in 2012. by Beth Bacon As popular as tablets are in education, netbooks are predicted to be the computing device most frequently purchased by the education market in 2013. In the… Read More

by Beth Bacon Educators—and students—are enthusiastic about tablets, but the new technology can be problematic. One million iPads. That’s the number of tablets Apple sold to schools and colleges in the year before the current school year. It’s roughly double… Read More

That’s the full title. It’s not just “21 Bacon Dessert Recipes.” It’s “21 Bacon Dessert Recipes That You’ll Wish You Would Have Tried Sooner (Diane’s Desserts Series).” I’m not sure if you would have wished you tried them sooner if… Read More

Digital-only publishing start-up Open Air Publishing has closed an $800,000 round of funding with contributions from investors SV Angel, Charles River Ventures and 500 Startups. The New York-based start-up was launched in May 2011 and has published four digital book… Read More

Artfinder… in partnership with The Estate of Francis Bacon have produced a rather wonderful interactive ebook for all Apple devices on the life and work of this extraordinary British painter. In its 70 pages it shows us 17 of his Read More

There was much merriment a while back over a news item about a manufacturer that was producing a line of aromatics simulating book scents. One of the aromas was, no kidding, “Crunchy Bacon.” “This,” we observed, “is a welcome novelty… Read More

By David Duhr CHICAGO: I am one among 9,500 attendees at this year’s AWP. This is well over one million pounds of writer. In fact, judging by what I know about the lifestyles of most in our profession, it might… Read More

Thanks to Open Culture for this: In recent days, the museum has made 65 art catalogues available online, all free of charge. The catalogues offer an intellectual and visual introduction to the work of Alexander Calder, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, … Read More