Storytelling Gets an Upgrade: Beyond Tactile Stories
By J.C. Hutchins, Novelist and Transmedia StorytellerOver the course of my two previous pieces on storytelling upgrades (start here), I showed how tactile and kinetic features native to the iPad can be...
View ArticleDigital Reading: A Summer of E-Shakespeare
By Anne Kostick, Partner, Foxpath INDIt’s a great year for New York Shakespeare fans. By December we’ll have hosted more than 15 productions of the Bard’s work in venues as diverse as Central Park, the...
View ArticleE-Reading Application Showdown, Part 2: Typography
By India Amos, Textist | @indiamos Ed note: For part one of this ongoing series on eReader applications and their rendering of ebooks across devices, click here for more on annotations in Kobo, Google,...
View ArticleDigital Reading: Getting Behind Front Matter
By Anne Kostick, Partner, Foxpath INDEd note: to listen to the audio from last Thursday’s Roundtable, go here. Digital Book World members can access the video presentation here. If you’re not a member...
View ArticleDigital Reading: Liberating Front Matter (A Follow-up)
By Anne Kostick, Partner at Foxpath IND | @bklynanneOnce book people stop thinking of the book reading experience as a one-way street and start thinking of their electronic creations as, say, an...
View ArticleDigital Reading: The Book in the Cloud
By Anne Kostick, Partner at Foxpath IND | @bklynanneAmazon’s Kindle Cloud Reader has been publicly available for about one month, a month that included the traditional vacation period, with...
View ArticleDigital Reading: User Experience Is the New Focus of New Media
The rest of the media world is beginning to see the light about UX. Advertising agencies are hiring UX professionals to help design campaigns, and just last week, author Brian Solis started a short...
View ArticleDigital Reading: Quietly, Kobo improves UX for its readers across all platforms.
I don’t consider myself a social reader but I’ve always admired Kobo’s commitment to refining and improving the user experience for social readers. I recently found out that this commitment extends to...
View ArticleDigital Reading: Talking About Tablets
Not long ago I got together online with Bret Freeman, Brett Sandusky, and Tony O’Donoghue to discuss the new tablet reality and how book publishers should take advantage of this fall’s surge in new...
View ArticleBootstrap: Beauty and The Beast
This week’s update comes from Portland, Oregon where The Holocene team met this week. In many ways, Team Holocene’s Brooklyn-Portland-Vancouver connection is a perfect allegory for the product we’re...
View ArticleDigital Reading: Judging Books by Their Covers
Is digital publishing so focused on maximizing its metadata that it neglects a crucial component of digital bookselling—the cover? While talking with Nathan Maharaj, Kobo’s Director of Merchandising...
View ArticleKobo Gives a Data Lesson
Ebook retailers remain tight-fisted with the data they collect on their customers’ e-reading habits, even though demand for it continues to grow. In the meantime, Kobo releases a practical guide to...
View ArticleFour Digital Publishing Questions for Paul Belfanti
The Digital Book World Conference + Expo, kicking off on January 13, 2015 is packed with an incredible amount of information and ideas about the digital publishing landscape at a time of remarkable...
View ArticleHow to Build Rich Navigation in EPUB3
EPUB3 is no longer all that new, but there still seems to be some reluctance among digital publishers to make the final move to a full-fledged EPUB3 workflow. In just the last two months I’ve been...
View ArticleHolding out on EPUB3 Gets Harder as UX Gets Better
To hear one leading ebook developer tell it, EPUB3 is still greeted with obstinance by a sizable handful of publishers and distributors. But holding out is getting ever harder to justify, especially as...
View ArticleOyster Ups the Ante on E-Reading Experience
If the e-reading experience were better, would more people pick up the habit? Oyster is hoping they might. Much as Kobo aims to convert print devotees with its latest e-reader, Oyster intends a new...
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