PressBooks, a company that offers an online toolset for self-publishing, has partnered with BookBaby to help authors distribute their titles in eBook stores. Thanks to the partnership, authors can create their eBooks online, manage all of the design and production… Read More

Apple has had a busy week, while dealing with the US Patent and Trademark Office and trying to register new innovations. They were granted a total of 48 patents and also published several patent applications. Those include vibration functionality for… Read More

[Announcement] Babette Cole starts e-book publishing company to aid children’s reading in a digital age… Children’s author Babette Cole, best known for her books Princess Smartypants, Dr Dog, and Mummy Laid an Egg, has set up a digital publishing company, Read More

Digital Book World launched DBW U today, an online education destination for the digital publishing industry. DBW U’s introductory course is titled Straight-Text EPUB and will teach students how to develop straight text content for iBooks, Kindle, Nook and others.… Read More

Apple has opened the iBookstore in Japan. The store launches with a selection of Japanese language books and titles from Japanese publishers including: Kodansha, KADOKAWA, Bungeishunju, Gakken and Gentosha. Here is more from the press release: “The iBookstore has a… Read More

Apple’s U.K. and Ireland iBookstores have added a new tool to help readers discover self-published books called Breakout Books. The launch follows the introduction of the same bestsellers list in Apple’s U.S. iBookstore. The titles on the Breakout Books lists… Read More

Related: How Publishers Should Prepare for EPUB3 With the addition of the Kids Corner children’s digital reading platform to its Reader Store, Sony will begin to support the EPUB3 spec, a step none of the major U.S. ebook retailers has… Read More

Today is Presidents' Day here in the U.S., another of those holidays celebrated more with sales on sofas and bathroom towels than with days off and family gatherings. Technically, there is no such thing as Presidents' Day. That is, Congress… Read More

Two weeks after Apple unveiled its iBooks Author program for designing interactive e-books, template king Jumsoft was there with its first set of iBooks Author templates, dubbed Book Palette. Jumsoft has now expanded that collection to 25 with the announcement… Read More

By Arnold Zafra In a move to encourage more self-published authors to make their masterpieces available on the iBookstore, Apple has created an entirely new section, Breakout Books, where self-published e-books will be displayed prominently. According to Apple, Breakout Books… Read More

Apple has added a new tool to help readers discover self-published books called Breakout Books. The titles on the Breakout Books lists are hand-picked books from emerging authors who have earned high ratings from customers. Apple explains Breakout Books in… Read More

Somethin' Else has just launched two digital book products for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. While both are exclusive to the iPad, they were made in very different ways. One, The Plant Hunters, was created using Apple's iBooks Author software. read… Read More

On Tuesday of this week TNM looked at the photography eBook produced by the staff of The Seattle Times (see post here with video walk-through). In that project, a year in review as seen in the staff's photographs, the production… Read More

On Tuesday of this week TNM looked at the photography eBook produced by the staff of The Seattle Times (see post here with video walk-through). In that project, a year in review as seen in the staff's photographs, the production… Read More