Publishers looking to get into the app business should not just adapt their online content for the mobile web, argued David Kenny…, chairman/CEO of The Weather Company, said in a keynote interview at the AppNation conference in New York Read More

Top German executives at this year's Publishers Forum in Berlin were pushed to confront pressing issues, such as getting their data in order and streamlining workflows.… Read More

[Press Release]Courier Acquires FastPencilAdvanced Content Management and Self-Publishing Platform…Courier Corporation (Nasdaq: CRRC), one of America’s leading innovators in book manufacturing and content management, today announced that it has acquired FastPencil, Inc., a developer of end-to-end, cloud-based content Read More

Random House has taken Richard Bolles…‘ popular job-hunting guide book What Color is Your Parachute? and adapted it into a digital workbook to compliment the book. The app is full of exercises designed to help users discover which jobs Read More

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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… Read More

If you’re an arts and crafts enthusiast, you’ve probably heard of Interweave’s publications, which include high-quality arts and crafts magazines, online education, books, TV shows, ePatterns, and eProjects. What you might not know, is that many are now available on… Read More

Have you mastered the basics and want to explore more? This free, four-session online training series will dive deep into advanced topics for Digital Publishing Suite, Enterprise Edition. Engage your audiences with cutting edge tablet/smartphone applications and make the most… Read More

Today at Adobe Summit: The Digital Marketing Conference, Adobe released the first step in delivering a more integrated workflow between Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) and Digital Publishing Suite. The AEM 5.6 release includes a new Media Publisher add-on that integrates… Read More

(via http://jtn-network.com) @JTN BUSINESS-Watch   Technology, Trends & News Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Sales up 22% to $21.27 Billion SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 29, 2013– Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2012. Operating cash flow… Read More

In an important post on the Safari Books website, called 'The unXMLing of digital books', Liza Daly declares that XSLT and XML are unnecessary for certain books (trade in particular, but also non-fiction), and that we should loosen the chains… Read More

By offering writers ready made art as inspiration, Storybird has attracted 2 million users and is turning traditional children's and YA publishing workflow on its head.… Read More

As you probably know already, Microsoft will introduce the Surface Pro tablet in early February, but till then we also came across some interesting new accessories from the same company. MS has just announced new Touch covers, with laser etchings… Read More

As you probably know already, Microsoft will introduce the Surface Pro tablet in early February, but till then we also came across some interesting new accessories from the same company. MS has just announced new Touch covers, with laser etchings… Read More