Vicky Hartley

Is publishing “dying”? On FutureBook, Vicky Hartley expresses doubt. She points to a number of great new multimedia apps on tablets that demonstrate some publishers are finding ways to use the new capabilities of tablets to reach out to readers better than ever before. Heuristic Media’s London – A City Through Time is one example, [...]

Duncan Baird Publishers is to remove digital rights management (DRM) from its future and backlist titles, in order to put readers at the heart of its focus. The UK publisher of illustrated books in the fields of mind, body and spirit and cookery said it took the decision to remove DRM from 150 of its titles and 80 of its future titles so that readers were not restricted as to which e-reader they could read the books from. Chairman Duncan Baird, said: It's your book you bought it! We believe in that so much, we are removing the DRM from