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A Scary Story for Halloween: The Curious Case of the Phantom Authors (Scholarly Kitchen) Halloween wouldn’t be complete without a ghost story, and while we’ve covered ghost writers in the past, a bizarre paper retraction takes things to a new level. *** Amazon Should Shelve Reading Recommendations (The Guardian) Does it annoy you when a [...]

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Comic strip publisher Universal Uclick has created a digital place on the Internet for avid readers of old-school newspaper comic strips. And now, to further plant the print staple into the modern world, they’ve introduced their GoComics website to the mobile Web sphere. Launching the GoComics application for iOS, Android and WP8, users can now access all content from [...]

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With consumers reading content on multiple devices, book publishers are being forced to take a new look at their digital business plans and adjust.

Compared to other entertainment industries, such as music, book publishing has been slow to adapt for mobile and publishers are still testing many marketing efforts. Although all sectors of book publishing have undoubtedly been changed by digital, children’s book publishing has been particularly strong to jump into mobile because of content that naturally fits in with interactive platforms.