John Benjamins, an independent Dutch publisher, has chosen Publishing Technology plc’s pub2web platform to host its publications.
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Friday marks the end of an era. Some, like Warner Bros. executive Dan Fellman, compare its finality to the breakup of the Beatles.
When Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, the eighth and presumably final film based on the phenom that has sold 450 million books and close to a billion movie tickets, opens this week in theaters from Lahore to Los Angeles, it will be twilight in the Potterverse.
As the self-publishing phenomenon has grown and matured, traditional book publishers have passed through something like the five stages of grief.
Ingram Content Group Inc. today announced scholarly/academic publisher Brill's agreement with Ingram’s CoreSource platform to distribute and archive scholarly books.
On Demand Books, and SharedBook, have entered into an agreement to distribute AcademicPub and Everything2Print content at point of sale via the EBM sales channel.
Three major French publishers filed a lawsuit against Google on May 6 for alleged trademark violations by its Google Book Search.
We can all learn some valuable lessons about making the “transition to digital” from John Wiley & Sons, the $1.7 billion publisher of scientific, technical, medical (STMS), higher education, and professional trade books and journals.
... Wiley’s outgoing CEO, William Pesce and incoming CEO, Stephen Smith spoke yesterday in an excellent webinar hosted by Book Business Magazine’s editor-in-chief Noelle Skodzinski and sponsored by publishing technology vendor Aptara. I strongly encourage you to take some time to listen to Learn from Wiley’s Legacy and Leadership.
Strong interest exists among both publishers and consumers in a fundamentally different e-book model: content delivery through subscription-based services.
(Press Release) Falls Church, Virginia, February 15, 2011—Aptara, a pioneer in digital publishing solutions, announced today that its PXE digital publishing platform has reduced Wiley-Blackwell's turnaround time by more than 75% for six of its medical, pharmaceutical, and physics journals.
(Press Release) Audubon, Pa., February 1, 2011—Really Strategies announced today the availability of RSuite Cloud, a web-based editorial and production system for automated multilingual publishing to print, web, and eBook formats.