Most-abandoned books on GoodReads
Many of us have physical bookshelves at home crammed with books that we loved. Some of us also have many books we haven’t even opened...
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VAT on digital books – Explained
Since their advent, eBooks have been subject to Value Added Tax and – for the same amount of time – there have been cries and petitions...
Wondering what you missed?
Now that we’ve ushered in the new year, media outlets around the globe have published their takes on the best or most defining books of...
Significant eReader market shrinkage by 2024 – should publishers be worried?
A report from MarketWatch predicts that the eReader market in the US will decline by 12.7% per annum over the next five years. Note that...
Advantages of Having a Native Speaker as Copyeditor
A copyeditor is essential for great content. While writers put their thoughts into words, the copyeditors ensure that the words convey...
Fixed-format or Reflowable ebooks
Fixed-format or Reflowable? Following on from our last post about the merits of EPUB 2 versus EPUB 3, we wanted to talk about how...
EPUB 2 or EPUB 3?
What is EPUB? XML-based, EPUB is the most widely-supportede-book format other than PDF; that is, it is supported by almost all hardware...
Emoji in eBooks? Use HTML entities
Preceded by the emoticon, emoji were first launched in Japan in 1998 and spread to the rest of the world via the Unicode Consortium. It’s...
Audible ruffles feathers with launch of Captions
Audible Captions aims to aid education by showing text versions of its audiobooks in the app, leading many publishers to cry infringement...
Educational publisher makes the switch to ‘digital first’
Pearson has begun a new ‘digital first’ initiative for its textbooks, marking a departure from the traditional print publishing model....
Creative Cloud and the capitalisation on a captive audience
Adobe shocked its Creative Cloud user base recently by informing them that using old versions of the software they’d been dutifully...
A book curated and written by an algorithm – the future of academic publishing?
Springer Nature have recently revealed a book created entirely by a computer. The book, created by an algorithm called Beta Writer, is a...
The audio boom and beyond
Audiobooks as we know them now have been around since the 1980s, but have seen an incredible amount of growth in recent years – 13% since...
E-Reader trends and statistics for 2019
Are eBooks dying? eBooks, no; eReaders, maybe yes. Following the ascension of the eBook some years ago, sales of late have plateaued. And...
Coding skills boost development of digital journalism
Knowing only programming language like HTML,CSS and JAVA are not only important but utilize all these skills in such way that digital...
Now it’s time for Google vs. Apple…
Now the time has come for Google’s own brand Android Pixel to go head-to-head with Apple’s newer version of iPhone oin smart phone world....
How to make article reading more interesting online…
As more technology comes on floor, digital news paper and article publisher are making reading martial more attractive and interesting...
What is ‘content first’ and is it the way forward?
Here ‘content first’ implies lots of challenges for publisher. As so many fast evolving themes in all type of digital devices it is very...
How data analysis sharpens up your content
Data analysis is very important factor to businesses. In fact, no business can survive without analyzing available data. Whether one...
Year on year online growth for publishers…
Nowadays people prefer reading newspapers online to any other way. One main reason is journalists are engaging with local people and...
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