Web Development
June 2, 2016 at 2:18 pm
HarperCollins significantly expanded its video initiative in May with the official launch of its newest YouTube channel Book Studio 16. The channel follows in the footsteps of HarperCollins’ popular Epic Reads channel, an extension of a site by the same name, which creates original content for the YA community. The Epic Reads channel boasts over…
May 27, 2016 at 2:10 pm
Welcome to Strata, a new digital storytelling project by the versatile comics illustrator and designer Tommy Lee Edwards and the synth act I Speak Machine, produced by independent label Lex Records in partnership with Penguin Random House (PRH) UK and Google’s Editions At Play, on the homepage of which, the link to Strata calls it, “The book…
April 28, 2016 at 11:30 am
“Audience” is a phrase being used much more frequently in trade publishing circles today. Where once marketing teams had to guess what type of person a book would appeal to, now book audiences are much more knowable. Thanks to the internet, social media, newsletters, and ecommerce publishers have more opportunity than ever to form direct…
April 8, 2016 at 3:37 pm
Another major trade publisher has launched a consumer-facing site, hoping to build a community of avid readers around its authors and titles. Yesterday Random House Germany announced the launch of romance-focused site Sinnliche Seiten or “Luscious Pages.” According to Publishing Perspectives, the site offers the latest romance news, book reviews, videos, and blogs. Readers can…
April 1, 2016 at 1:19 pm
Editor's Note: On April 20th, Book Business' sister brand Publishing Executive will be hosting a free webinar that will explore the new revenue streams publishers are developing through paid, online learning. The webinar "Seizing the Online Learning Revenue Opportunity" will feature presentations from magazine publishers, but the lessons on audience development and digital content monetization…
March 23, 2016 at 12:09 pm
COLUMBIA, Md. — March 23, 2016 — Cenveo Publisher Services and Golden Voice English (GVE) Online Education announce the successful partnership in creating an ESL elearning program for students in China. In just six months, Cenveo helped GVE transform the method and delivery of English instruction for Chinese students in grades 1 through 9. Cenveo…
March 22, 2016 at 1:46 pm
SEBASTOPOL, Calif. — March 21, 2016 — O'Reilly Media introduces Oriole Online Tutorials, a unique new medium that blends code, data, text, and video into a narrated learning experience with computable content. Oriole Online Tutorials run on HTML pages driven by Jupyter notebooks. "There are people who learn by reading, there are people who learn…
March 8, 2016 at 2:30 pm
MANILA, Philippines — March 8, 2016 — SPi Global, a leading technology-enabled digital content and customer relationship provider, is partnering with Metrodigi, creators of the cloud-based Chaucer authoring platform, to offer interactive digital content solutions and consultative services. SPi works closely with clients to understand their strategic goals, user research and product objectives, thereby delivering…
March 3, 2016 at 2:15 pm
Penguin Random House started life as the world’s largest English language publisher after £2.4 billion merger in 2013 and has since launched two new websites – one aimed at consumers and one at the corporate world. We chat to the founder and managing director of Brighton-based design agency Clearleft, Andy Budd, about how they created…
February 29, 2016 at 2:54 pm
Farmington Hills, Mich., February 29, 2016 — Gale, a leading provider of library resources and part of Cengage Learning, has reached a major milestone in its quest to improve discoverability and researcher workflow, completing indexing work with Google. Researchers can now easily…
