App Development
May 25, 2017 at 3:21 pm
This webinar will explore trends affecting K12 publishers and the technology and strategies they’re employing to reap opportunities.
January 31, 2017 at 1:56 pm
This webinar will share perspectives from industry leaders on key trends that will impact the publishing industry in 2017.
December 21, 2016 at 1:57 pm
CHICAGO — December 16, 2016 — Datalogics, the premier source for PDF and ebook technologies, announces the release of Bookvia™, a new mobile reading solution integrated with Sony DADC’s User Rights Management System (URMS). Bookvia, an eReader app designed to support major DRM systems, allows users to consolidate their electronic publications in one application. Bookvia…
December 20, 2016 at 12:29 pm
Hachette Livre has acquired a majority stake in a London-based mobile app company, Brainbow Ltd. Brainbow, founded in 2012, created the brain-training app Peak, a mobile digital subscription service that has accrued 15m downloads around the world. It was named Apple's "Best App" in 2014, while Google Play chose it as its "Best Self Improvement App" in 2015 and 2016. Peak is also a Future Fifty…
December 7, 2016 at 1:13 pm
It started as an idea at a kitchen table between friends frustrated by the limitations of algorithm-driven digital recommendations and star ratings of books that they believed had encouraged a “deep engagement with the shallow” over the last 10 years. Two years on, the founder of the Folio prize Andrew Kidd and Silicon Valley veteran…
December 5, 2016 at 2:15 pm
Hachette UK has "canned" many of its apps to focus on "fewer and better" following its acquisition of mobile apps and games developer Neon Play in June, its chief executive Tim Hely Hutchinson has revealed. At the same time, he said in the future games could be as important to its business as children’s books or…
November 7, 2016 at 11:46 am
At first I thought it was an SNL parody about ebooks for kids. We’re so addicted to info snacking, seemingly less able (and interested) in focusing on long form reading, so let’s create a new platform that helps foster even shorter attention spans for our kids. Amazon Rapids is nothing more than a series of…
November 3, 2016 at 11:06 am
Amazon has designed a new app that it hopes will entice children to read more. Called Rapids, this technology presents interactive stories and colorful illustrations in a style that looks like the characters are texting each other in a thread. Readers can view the messages as the story is being told or scroll through the…
October 25, 2016 at 12:49 pm
Penguin Random House UK is launching Flipper, an online book recommendation engine, as part of a Christmas campaign to help customers choose the right Christmas present for loved ones. Penguin Flipper allows visitors to use filters — such as the age and personality of their loved ones, or the genre or setting of book — to…
October 21, 2016 at 2:23 pm
Book publishers face an interesting puzzle. The amount of time consumers spend with digital media is growing significantly year over year. According to comScore, U.S. consumers spent 35% more time with digital content in 2015 than they did in 2013. Yet in the book industry, ebooks sales are on the decline, as is overall revenue,…
