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Post-Artifact Books and Publishing — by Craig Mod
For those of us looking to shape the future of books and publishing, where do we begin? Simply, these are our truths: The way books are written has changed. The canvas for books has changed. The post... Read more
http://craigmod.com/journal/post_artifact/
Tags: books, publishing, ebooks, digital, media, via:packrati.us, writing, design, book, history Saved by: admin at 15 Jun 2011

Unbound | books are now in your hands
Unbound is a new way of bringing authors and readers together. We believe both deserve a greater say in which books get published. From today, Unbound will make that happen. No middlemen or marketers.... Read more
http://www.unbound.co.uk/
Tags: books, publishing, via:packrati.us, authors, book, business, design, hayfestival, ideas, kickstarter Saved by: admin at 30 May 2011

Push Pop Press: Al Gore's Our Choice
Introducing @AlGore's Our Choice, the first interactive book built with @PushPopPress. Now available on the App Store. http://t.co/ASqJR8K – Push Pop Press (pushpoppress) http://twitter.com/pushpopp... Read more
http://pushpoppress.com/ourchoice
Tags: design, books, ipad, iphone, apps, inspiration, interactive, ios, publishing, research Saved by: admin at 29 Apr 2011

Two spaces after a period: Why you should never, ever do it. - By Farhad Manjoo - Slate Magazine
Guess I'll have to listen to my kids and update my style of double-spacing following ending punctuation, colon, and semicolon. Yes, I learned from a typist.
http://www.slate.com/?id=2281146
Tags: typography, writing, publishing, slate, style, english, language, article, editorial, spacing Saved by: admin at 15 Jan 2011

The Web Is a Customer Service Medium (Ftrain.com)
"When it arrived the web seemed to fill all of those niches at once. The web was surprisingly good at emulating a TV, a newspaper, a book, or a radio. Which meant that people expected it to answer the... Read more
http://www.ftrain.com/wwic.html
Tags: web, internet, culture, media, publishing, article, business, community, articles, fundamentals Saved by: admin at 07 Jan 2011

Google Digital Newsstand Aims to Muscle In on Apple - WSJ.com
I'd love to get Doug Weaver's take on this.  "Google Inc. and Apple Inc. have stepped up their battle to win over publishers, as the two companies vie to become the dominant distributor of newspapers... Read more
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704543004576051800714082180.html
Tags: apple, google, magazines, mobile, android, internet, news, ipad, publishing, ebooks Saved by: admin at 04 Jan 2011

A Newbie's Guide to Publishing: You Should Self-Publish
Years ago, publishers used to grow authors. When authors reached a certain number of books in print, the publisher would have a huge marketing campaign to break the author out into the mainstream and ... Read more
http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/2010/12/you-should-self-publish.html
Tags: publishing, writing, book, books, publish, ebooks, self-publishing, selfpublishing, toread, article Saved by: admin at 30 Dec 2010

Why The Book Business May Soon Be The Most Digital Of All Media Industries | paidContent
"To honor the occasion, we have just published our five-year forecast for eBooks in the U.S. The punchline is this: 2010 will end with $966 million in e-books sold to consumers. By 2015, the industry ... Read more
http://paidcontent.org/article/419-why-the-book-business-may-soon-be-the-most-digital-of-all-media-industr/
Tags: ebooks, publishing, books, via:packrati.us, ebook, book, business, digital, forrester, industry Saved by: admin at 09 Nov 2010

An Open-Source, HTML5 Framework for iPad E-books
Pretty interesting system for creating iPad eBooks using HTML5 (but maybe that's obvious from the title). It's somewhat silly that you just design for the 768px width and submit to App Store, but so ... Read more
http://mashable.com/2010/11/02/baker-ebook-framework/
Tags: ipad, html5, ebooks, opensource, publishing, apps, ebook, html, framework, via:packrati.us Saved by: admin at 03 Nov 2010

Baker Ebook Framework
Baker, un Framework, de código libre, creado para publicar libros en iPad. Permite de forma sencilla a diseñadores y programadores la creación de libros para esta plataforma, creando páginas en HT... Read more
http://bakerframework.com/
Tags: ipad, html5, ebooks, framework, ebook, development, publishing, opensource, programming, blogging Saved by: admin at 03 Nov 2010