Five Minutes With: Pete Masters, carpenter and web editor MSF (UK)
People admire bookshelves, not hard drives, says carpenter Pete Masters. Books inspire conversation by their physical presence, so why wouldContinue Reading
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Google drop eBookstore affiliates and launches Google Play
Google axes ebook affiliates and Android Market, then launches Google Play; Amazon to publishers: ‘Drop ebook prices or else’; PicadorContinue Reading
Social media celebrates children’s books on World Read Aloud Day
Using social media such as video virals, Google +, Skype, blogs and also Twitter, educators, authors and publishers around theContinue Reading
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Jonathan Franzen: “Ebooks will have a detrimental effect on the world.”
More condemnation on ebooks by doomsayers; Penguin Classics commissions artist Yayoi Kusama for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland; the unstoppable riseContinue Reading
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The ebook diversifies, but print is here to stay, says Oxford Brookes
Ebook generates 15% of the revenues for some publishers, with the romance genre having a huge slice in the marketContinue Reading
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Meet The Comics Grid, an online journal of comics scholarship
REPORT: “Whatever is to become of books?” at London Design Festival 2011. The video presentation by Dr Ernesto Priego ofContinue Reading
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The page is no longer a cage: Mag+ ushers in a new era of rich content storytelling for tablet magazines
REPORT: “Whatever is to become of books?” at London Design Festival 2011. At the Inspiration Room event held at UniversityContinue Reading
Five Minutes With: Fiona Swarbrick, National Union of Journalists Books and Magazine
“The book industry had the foresight to proceed with a paid model rather than wander blindfold into the digital ageContinue Reading
Five Minutes With: Emilia Spitz and Linda Uruchurtu, The Ballet Bag
Five Minutes Interview at London Design Festival: “Ebooks and Kindle, or ebook readers in general, will become ‘the new paperback’.”Continue Reading
Five Minutes With: Zarina Holmes, Creative Director, Sojournposse
Five Minutes Interview at London Design Festival: “Print will be collectible,” says Zarina Holmes, Creative Director of Sojournposse who envisionedContinue Reading