Content and Digital Asset Management
November 23, 2015 at 1:32 pm
Walk into a bookstore, and chances are you’ll see books divided into sections by genre. Romance, Science Fiction/Fantasy, Mystery, and so on. It’s the most common system of categorizing books, conversationally and from the data-management perspective of the book world. Genre is also incredibly limiting at times. There are dozens upon dozens of subgenres across…
November 11, 2015 at 2:14 pm
Remember the audiobook service Barnes & Noble launched last year? Me neither, but it's back in the news again today. After a year of waiting, B&N has released Nook Audiobooks apps for the iPhone and iPad. They're also finally launching a website where you can buy the audiobooks: NookAudiobooks.com.
October 26, 2015 at 11:52 am
NEW YORK—October 26, 2015—Springer Nature announces the launch of an interactive Related Content service on the SpringerLink platform. The service will make it faster and easier for researchers to discover relevant scientific content and is powered by UNSILO, a Semantic Discovery Engine that captures trending ideas and novel scientific concepts as they emerge. The new…
October 12, 2015 at 2:37 pm
MANILA, Philippines—October 12, 2015—SPi Global, one of the world’s leading content and knowledge solutions provider, has expanded its digital technology enrichment portfolio to include Inkling. As a certified and preferred partner to Inkling, SPi expands its digital and interactive media solutions towards cloud-based infrastructure with structured authoring and integrated tools/workflow. The professionally designed content will…
September 29, 2015 at 1:04 pm
Explore content architectures and workflows that ensure content is more discoverable and accessible, no matter what you’re publishing.
September 28, 2015 at 11:33 am
HUNT VALLEY, Md.—September 28, 2015—Sheridan has expanded its automated print management system, Sheridan Select, to include a self‐service component granting publishers the ability to upload a book or journal title and place a print‐on‐demand (POD) order within a single transaction. Upon logging in to the Sheridan Select portal and initiating a POD order, publishers are…
September 15, 2015 at 1:02 pm
As book publishers adapt to a world where both print and digital editions are desirable to readers, it is important for us to focus on formatting the content in a way that best suits how it is being read. But what readers, authors, publishers, and retailers often forget...
August 12, 2015 at 6:03 pm
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt made significant strides in its direct-to-consumer strategy yesterday with the acquisition of ebook and technology assets from the ebook subscription service MeeGenius. MeeGenius offers a library of 700 picture books geared toward young readers up to 8 years old. The acquisition increases HMH's digital content for young readers and establishes a direct…
April 22, 2015
At the London Book Fair on Thursday, Copyright Clearance Center presented, The Copyright Conundrum, a special talk led by Victoriano Colodron, senior director of international relations at CCC. The presentation outlined the paradox many publishers face: copyright is key to conducting the business of book publishing, but the digital revolution has made sharing -- regardless of copyright restrictions -- as easy as a single keystroke.
April 9, 2015
HarperCollins Publishers has undertaken a publishing automation program to accelerate book production. Come hear what they learned.
