by Eoin Purcell Most small and medium-sized publishers who haven’t YET decided to act on digital publishing wonder where to start. They are especially cautious if they have been in business for some time and have a backlist they are worried about converting. That’s a significant up-front cost for small publishers if they only have PDF [...]
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Publishers, Stop Being Craven, Forge Your Own Future
February 18th, 2011 · 2 Comments · opinion
by Eoin Purcell For some time there has been a funny dichotomy in the publishing industry worldwide. On the one hand publishers have decried the growing influence of powerful tech companies from outside the industry. Google, Amazon, Apple all fall into that category (Amazon aside from being an impressive online retailer is also an amazing [...]
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Diamond Book Distributors stop shipments to Borders
January 13th, 2011 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news
Diamond Book Distributors sent out an email this week to their clients and partners. Bill Schanes, Diamond’s VP of purchasing, said that Borders had suspended payments to Diamond, and the distributor was forced to suspend book shipments to the retail chain. Given that Diamond is only the latest to stop doing business with Borders, I’d [...]
Flash on Android: Be glad you don’t work for Adobe
August 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · software reviews
Kevin C. Tofel of jkOnTheRun and Ryan Lawler of NewTeeVee just posted a video that shows Kevin’s Nexus One running Android 2.2 Froyo and Adobo Flash 10.1. Or at least trying to run Flash 10.1. The results are really, really, bad. via NewTeeVee
Samsung to stop developing epaper screens
August 24th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
From Trading Markets: Samsung Electronics Co., Asia’s largest maker of mobile phones and memory chips, said Monday that it has recently decided to withdraw from the electronic paper (e-paper) business due to cost issues. The company, however, will not completely leave the market for electronic book (e-book) readers, and plans to launch next year an [...]
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Baker & Taylor, LibreDigital announce 1 stop shop for digital media services
May 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments · press release, publishing news
From the press release: Amid surging demand and interest in e-books, Baker & Taylor, a leading provider of digital media services to publishers worldwide, and LibreDigital, Inc., a leading developer of digital publishing solutions, today at Book Expo America announced an expanded agreement to partner for the delivery of e-books– creating a one-stop, comprehensive suite [...]
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