Some university presses moving beyond simple ebooks
From an article in Inside Higher Ed. Here's a snippet, a lot more in the article:
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The proliferation of GPS-enabled mobile devices and community-based social media applications and the rise of companies...
University Publishing Online adds six more academic presses
From the press release:
Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce the addition of six more academic presses to its University Publishing Online (UPO) platform. 2012 will see the addition...
DirecteBooks expands into UK
From the press release:
Irish eBooks company, DirecteBooks.com, are delighted to announce that they are extending their popular eBook distribution service, ePubDirect.com to the UK market in response to the rising demand...
GenCon 2013 Interview: M. Sechin Tower, Lead Developer at Exile Game Studio
During GenCon 2013, I had the chance to speak with Sechin Tower, Lead Developer at Exile Game Studio and author of Mad Science Institute. I asked him about Exile’s use of...
How Hachette uses agency agreement to sidestep anti-competitive pricing laws in Australia
Sigh. I suppose it was naïve of me to think that customers (little guy) could force a large company (big bully) to act fairly – in this case ...
What today’s publishers could learn from Charles Dickens
FutureBook has a post looking at the relevance of Charles Dickens to present-day publishing. Dickens, Martyn Daniels writes, wrote and published many stories in installments in pamphlets prior to publishing them...
Waiting for common sense – not: the Agency 6
It used to be the Agency 5, now it’s the Agency 6 as Random House has caved and instituted agency pricing. This further changes my book-buying habits.
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Pan Macmillan reaches 8% in digital sales
That's the report in The Bookseller.
E-book sales accounted for over 8% of Pan Macmillan's trade sales in the first quarter of 2011, with the publisher predicting a rise to up to...
When publishers attack: Elsevier and the open access research dilemma
It's no secret that academic publisher Reed Elsevier is facing financial and structural challenges from European Union and other regulatory challenges to its business model, from officials anxious to make sure...
International Publishers Congress highlights WIPO, copyright lobby
A new announcement for the the 31st International Publishers Congress, due to take place in London on April 9-12, 2016, in conjunction with the London Book Fair, highlights how keen the...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
