Digital publishing and technology

Kobo Reading Life and Facebook partner for “frictionless” social e-reading

Soon Facebook users won't have to click a button to tell their friends what they're reading. Yesterday at F8, Facebook's annual developers conference, Kobo CEO Michael Serbinis announced that its e-reading app, Kobo Reading Life, ... Read More »

September 23, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology

Does an upsized IKEA bookshelf spell doom for print publishing?

By Sue Carter

IKEA's BILLY bookcase, as ubiquitous a presence in undergrads' apartments as ramen noodles, has now become, to some pundits, at least, a symbol for the decline of print publishing. According to The Economist, the upcoming ... Read More »

September 13, 2011 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Wattpad pulls in $3.5 million in new investment

By Steven W. Beattie

Wattpad, the Toronto-based Internet company that allows readers and writers to connect and share their work online, has completed a new round of funding, including an investment from Union Square Ventures, the New York company ... Read More »

September 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology

Amazon looks to Netflix-like e-book rental program

By Natalie Samson

Amazon has approached publishers about launching an e-book rental program, The Wall Street Journal reports. The service would follow a model similar to that of Netflix, requiring subscribers to pay an annual fee for access ... Read More »

September 12, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology

E-book apps for Apple lose e-bookstore links

By Natalie Samson

Big changes are underway in the e-book app world. Since Saturday, iOS (Apple's operating system for mobile devices such as iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad) apps for Kobo, Barnes & Noble's Nook, and Amazon's Kindle ... Read More »

July 25, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology

Columbia Publishing Course finds enthusiasm among students, faculty

By Steven W. Beattie

It seems like every other day one news outlet or another is carrying a story about the incipient demise of the publishing industry, the death of print, and the dominance of digital. These, we are ... Read More »

July 18, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology

LongPen goes digital as iDoLVine

By Natalie Samson

Margaret Atwood's LongPen has gone digital in its latest iteration as iDoLVine's LiveSign. According to Matthew Gibson, president and co-founder at iDoLVine and president and CTO at Syngrafii, the tech company responsible for creating and ... Read More »

May 17, 2011 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

E-books will account for 40 per cent of book revenue within five years, predicts Reisman

By Steven W. Beattie

Two years ago, Heather Reisman, CEO and "chief booklover" of Indigo Books and Music, predicted that e-books would cannibalize 15 per cent of traditional book sales at her stores in five years' time. Reisman has ... Read More »

April 11, 2011 | Filed under: Bookselling, Digital publishing and technology, Industry news

Judge rejects Google Book Settlement

By Steven W. Beattie

Adding another chapter to the ongoing (not to say epic) saga of Google's attempt to build the world's largest digital library, Judge Denny Chin has rejected the settlement that would have granted the company the ... Read More »

March 22, 2011 | Filed under: Book news, Digital publishing and technology

Could the Kindle killer be an actual book?

By Steven W. Beattie

Amazon's Kindle e-reader is touted for its advantages as a reading device: it is lightweight, portable, and employs easy-to-read, low glare e-ink. Almost from its first appearance, critics and competitors have been predicting the advent ... Read More »

March 21, 2011 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

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