Blog Posts - Digital Publishing

Description: Devices like the Apple iPad have changed the way the world consumes media, and now anyone can adopt a digital publishing model and share their content with an audience. This course clearly defines the terms and types of digital formats,...

Founded in December 2009, Toronto-based Kobo has emerged in the last two years as a global DIY self-publishing platform and e-bookstore, as well as producing its own range of e-reader devices. Originally owned by Indigo Books & Music, Japanese co...

Writers have more ways to publish then ever before. Not that long ago, I wrote a post called, Are There Too Many Ways To Self-Publish? It can get complicated, quickly, when a writer begins considering how they want to publish. If you’re a wri...

Self-publishing isn’t a new thing—it’s been going on for hundreds of years. What’s relatively new is Digital Self-publishing. But, while the masses are now able to self-publish, mass-media is creating a fractured hall of mirro...

The Alliance of Independent Authors talks to Robin Cutler and Andy Bromley of Ingram about publishing platform IngramSpark.The Independent Publishing Magazine | TIPM Media...

The London Book Fair organisers have made much of the Digital Minds Conference sessions available on their YouTube channel. I've selected one of my highlight sessions on Hybrid and Author-Publishing, featuring Director of Author & Publisher...

Getting concrete and accurate data on e-books and the digital marketplace in the book industry can be a precarious business. Bowker and Nielsen both provide regular data to the industry but their can often miss the full global picture if certain...

There are growing concerns in the author-publishing community about the operation, activities and claims made by AuthorOffer.com over the past month. The website was registered and set-up in December 2013 and offers authors and small publishers the...

There’s so much in the press about Reading; but, most of it pretends it’s about Writing…  Will digital kill print? Will self-publishing kill the traditional houses? And, all the authors feel compelled to share their opinions—...

Description: Digital distribution is the wave of the future for magazines and other print publications. Get on board now, with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS). DPS tools are included with InDesign and can help you create rich interactive publica...

The importance of relying on a few people at massive companies to judge whether a book should be published seems to be evaporating…  Plus, self-publishing isn’t really new. Many famous authors of the past self-published. The difference (...

Bookbaby describes itself as a ‘a team of authors, poets, bloggers, and artists’ providing an e-book distribution network and offering publishing services to authors not looking to  sell-out to ‘big publishing.’ Founded in 2011 and based in...

Lulu has announced that it has added e-book distribution to Amazon Kindle and Kobo e-book store in an expanded partnership deal with Ingram Content Group. Lulu's publishing and distribution systems will now integrate with Ingram's digital ma...

Barnes & Noble's self-publishing platform, Nook Press, has been launched in the UK and several countries on the European continent. The platform for authors and publishers is now available in multiple languages including French, Italian, Germ...

Digital distribution is the wave of the future for magazines and other print publications. Get on board now, with Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS). DPS tools are included with InDesign and can help you create rich interactive publications for mob...

Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) has established itself as the single most recognisable DIY self-publishing platform for authors wanting to publish their books in e-book. Amazon launched Kindle Direct Publishing back in 2007 in beta form and pitched it...

This Mashable article by +Amy-Mae Elliott is very encouraging.People-Powered Publishing Is Changing All the RulesThis survey by Beverley Kendall is as well.Self-Publishing Survey - 2013...

If you have been following publishing blogs and digital technology websites over the past few days, then you may have read about a proposed software application for the iPad called Story Surgeon. It's the brainchild of Ryan Hancock, a writer and...

If you have been following publishing blogs and digital technology websites over the past few days, then you may have read about a proposed software application for the iPad called Story Surgeon. It's the brainchild of Ryan Hancock, a writer and...

I recently documented an over year long project at work as we globalized the online presence of over 400 companies into one. Not knowing what approach to take to make this usable and useful for anyone to read I began to pick friends brains on the sub...

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