Children’s and YA Revenue up Nearly 22% (Galley Cat) AAP Reports eBook Sales Up 46% in 2012 (The Digital Reader) eBooks Represent 17% of Sales At Penguin (App Newser) Librarian Cites ‘Concerning’ Trends in Digital Collection Development (The Digital Shift)… Read More

[Press Note] The event is entitled GWR L.I.V.E Guinness World Records (Live Interactive Video Experience), and is a FREE event for where mall shoppers are able to pose alongside virtual projections of actual record holders. Would love for DBW to… Read More

This week we are featuring The New Yorker as App of the Week. An iconic magazine with a loyal following, The New Yorker has implemented a Custom Store using HTML. Watch the video to see how the Custom Store can… Read More

That’s the title of an article in the Irish Publishing News today.  Here’s a snippet: Adrian White, bookseller and author, discusses why he’s pricing his novel at $9.99 in digital form. Pricing my ebook at $9.99? Am I crazy? Maybe… Read More

O’Reilly’s Tools of Change conference at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair focused on apps vs. e-books, legacy publishers vs. start-ups, and adapting to this digital world. By Sophie Rochester The children’s market is a huge opportunity within the digital publishing… Read More

From FutureBook: Faber and Bloomsbury were the big winners at the first ever FutureBook Digital Innovation awards, with the prizes awarded last night (17th March) at an event held in central London. The evening also saw Tim Cooper, director of… Read More

Here’s the shortlist: Best use of social media Waterstone’s on Twitter, Waterstone’s New Voices, Midas PR for Harlequin Mills and Boon Penguin Facebook & Twitter campaigns, Penguin Books Vintage Podcasts, Vintage Publishing   Best app/enhanced eBook/interactive book 1,000 Ultimate Experiences, Lonely … Read More

Want to know what the most expensive virtual property is or who the first public official fired for playing Farmville was? Thanks to Guinness World Records, now you can. The publisher has released the 2011 Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition… Read More

I've reviewed this app for FutureBook: Being a child of the 80s I have extremely fond memories of Guinness World Records (GWR). One of my brothers was given an annual every year by my Mum. A boy not exactly in love… Read More

Guinness World Records has a new app coming out specifically designed for the iPad. After launching app in lite mode this past spring, the full version of the Guinness World Records: At Your Fingertips app launches this week in the… Read More

Earlier this year, Guinness released a free multimedia iPad app with selected records from its latest Book of World Records (now known as simply Guinness World Records…). This month, however, marks its first release of a true “e-book” edition, Read More

For eBook readers who want to how big the largest cat (47 pounds) is in the world is or how long the longest kiss lasted (33 hours), you no longer have to go to Google. Guinness World Records is launching… Read More