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Who’s afraid of the big, bad Amazon Publishing?
Big publishers are nervous, certainly. That’s always been the case, though, even when it seemed like Amazon Publishing was going to be a flop. But then things changed, and AP started showing potential...
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ISBNs and other fun acronyms
If you want to sell a book that you have written, whether through a publisher or independently, then you will almost certainly need an ISBN. You’ve definitely seen one before, even if you didn’t know...
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The Digital Publishing YCE Award: now in exotic locales
2014 marks the 10th year of the Digital Publishing Young Creative Entrepreneur awards by the British Arts Council. Typically it runs both domestically and in a few international locations like Russia,...
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TinyType makes a strong case for font embedding
Anyone who’s ever tried to get their typography right knows that mobile OSes are a nightmare. You could be pretty confident that the font you liked best on iOS would default to something horrible on...
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Come on, show us your methodology
Most likely, if you are interested in the publishing industry, you have already read Hugh Howey’s advice to big publishers on how they should run their businesses. If nothing else, it was an...
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Patreon is changing the crowdfunding model
A few months ago we published a blog about implementing the concept of artistic patronage, where authors are the investment for publishers, not already completed manuscripts. It would encourage...
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Please stop obsessing with platforms
Since the dawn of the tablet-and-mobile-platform era, critics and so-called well informed individuals have been crying out that digital will inevitably take over the print world. But just like the...
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Ebook apps, know thy customer
Everybody wants to recommend you something these days. It’s a proven sales technique – how will you know you want something, if you haven’t been shown it yet? The Internet has gotten especially good at...
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Digital publishing connects content from creators to consumers
Many great books never get published, while there are many others that maybe shouldn’t have been published at all. Determining bestsellers from the not-so-good reads is a gamble for both the author and...
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Need for Speed: how Spritz is taking on speed reading
It seems we, as a technology-loving, iPhone-consuming society, are constantly concerned with pushing ourselves in the quest of maximising knowledge and minimising intake time. The latest good citizens...
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Tablet magazines: failure or future of publishing?
Late last year, Danish News Association’s chairman Jon Lund released an article “Why tablet magazines are a failure”, sparking much controversy in the digital world. His points were well argued and...
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E-tailing is a simple formula, when it comes down to it
While it’s true that online retailing (or etailing) is a much bigger enterprise than it was ten years ago, it’s still difficult to find a giant of profitable etailing that isn’t everyone’s favourite...
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The comeback of Windows Phone
In a market currently dominated by Android and Apple iOS, Windows Phone has been pushed aside. But the end of 2013 saw Microsoft’s market share increase as Windows Phone claimed the title of the...
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Keep calm: UK survey shows current digital PR troubles
Just as the publishing world is undergoing a fast and furious transition to digital, so too is public relations and the communications sector. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that digital has vastly...
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It’s easy to be a publisher nowadays
These days, not everyone starts off with a book deal. Some do, but that’s a rarity. What is more likely is for the writers of today to self-publish or have their works moderated online by like-minded...
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Meet Dmitry Glukhovsky: author, journalist, futurist
Russian journalist and sci-fi novelist, Dmitry Glukhovsky, is the man behind the worldwide phenomenon ebook Metro 2033 that gave readers the ability to have a voice and become a part of the series. If...
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Technology closes educational divide in developing countries
In a town where books were once too difficult to get a hold of, a group of forty children at a small school in Ghana sit reading from their brand new e-readers. Technology is moving ahead in leaps and...
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People who buy books, love books (isn’t that obvious?)
As the title suggests, people love books. Not all people, mind you, but the people who do buy books, really love them. So when surprise was expressed at the results of a survey that suggest people...
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Traditional and digital marketing must go hand-in-hand
The internet is widely used for marketing – as a promotional tool, a distribution channel and sometimes as the product itself. But is marketing via social media platforms always a good tactic? I came...
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Behind the facade of our new UI
This is only the list of apps, but even here, the new UI is a big improvement. We’ve been talking about it for a long time. Our new user interface (UI) finally went live last night! For those of you...
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