E-Books and Interactive Publishing
September 12, 2016 at 8:00 am
Open Educational Resources (OER) in higher education have the potential to triple in use as primary courseware over the next five years, from 4 percent to 12 percent, according to a survey of more than 500 faculty by Cengage Learning. In addition, the use of OER for supplemental learning materials may nearly quadruple in size,…
September 7, 2016 at 11:38 am
NEW YORK — September 6, 2016 — BookShout, an elegant ebook platform focused on creating new digital initiatives for top brands, companies, and partners, today announced it distributed more than 237,000 eBooks as part of T-Mobile Tuesdays. The engagement, which occurred over two separate 24-hour blocks, resulted in customers reading more than 97,000,000 words read…
September 6, 2016 at 1:11 pm
Ebooks are not taking over the world! That seems pretty clear from a Pew Research Center survey released last week, which showed that the percentage of Americans who read digital books hasn't risen since 2014. The survey didn't show any real sign of a print resurgence either, though. Overall, the percentage of Americans consuming books in any…
August 29, 2016 at 12:15 pm
Rainier Velardo watched the basketball-player-tall man in the blue shirt who sat down next to him — the man had gotten on at the last subway stop, West Fourth Street in Manhattan, and this was an F train going to Brooklyn. Mr. Velardo watched the man tap the screen of an iPad. He heard the…
August 25, 2016 at 1:08 pm
I’m constantly amazed by the missionaries I work with on the Kindle team — they have the singular goal of making it easier for people around the world to discover and enjoy great books. This team wakes up every day motivated to invent on behalf of readers in large part because of the stories we…
August 24, 2016 at 9:59 am
Walk through a bookstore and you can see $5.99 paperbacks along one wall and omg-how-much? college textbooks along the other. E-textbook company RedShelf today announced it raised a $4 million Series B from Coniston Capital, with participation from existing investors, including the National Association of College Stores. The company tells me it will use the funding to drive…
August 16, 2016 at 1:03 pm
HARTFORD, Conn. — August 9, 2016 — The Connecticut State Library has announced that the first phase of the development of a statewide library ebook platform (eGO) will begin with Library Connection, Inc. and the Ferguson Library. This will involve the development of an ebook app for both iPhones and Android phones, that will enable…
August 16, 2016 at 12:57 pm
Although enhanced ebooks and apps with sound and video have been poorly received by book consumers, Neoglyphic Entertainment, an entertainment technology developer, has created a platform that makes use of data science, gaming technology, machine learning and crowdbased focus groups to create new experiences around traditional storytelling. The company has plans to offer its multimedia…
August 15, 2016 at 12:31 pm
NEW YORK — August 15, 2016 Open Road Integrated Media today introduced new branding for their corporate identity. The logo design embodies the transformation of the growing enterprise, and unites all of the company’s consumer brands under one modern mark. When it launched in 2009, Open Road Integrated Media’s mission was to be an innovative…
August 12, 2016 at 12:35 pm
It seems that we hear about new efforts to reposition the scholarly monograph for an open environment almost every day: services such as Knowledge Unlatched, programs like Luminos, imprints like Lever Press, and research such as “Mapping the Free Ebook Supply Chain”. AAU, AAUP, and ARL have taken a collective interest, not “as a response…
