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How schools are reacting to Apple’s entry into education
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale When Apple announced its textbook initiative on Thursday, there was a rush of excitement among educators. Textbooks from major publishers,...
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It pays to time your tweets: SocialFlow debuts self-serve platform and eyes...
Image via SocialFlow SocialFlow, which helps brands and publishers optimize their performance across Facebook and Twitter, is launching its self-service platform today. The company has had a banner...
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The Daily doubles down on custom app development, hints about move to iPhone
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale The Daily, which began life as Rupert Murdoch’s first stab at a tablet only newspaper, has found a new life as a custom app developer....
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As tablet usage grows, can publishers evolve fast enough?
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale As the buzz around the new iPad launch continues, both traditional and online publishers are “caught between the gravitational pull of the...
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Why smart authors are cutting Amazon out
Source: Flickr/Cliff1066This isn't going to end well. The recent anti-trust suit against the big five book publishers reminds me of the scene in the movie Titanic where the lifeboats are pulling away...
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Nook edition of Tolstoy’s War and Peace changes ‘kindled’ to ‘Nookd’
Looks like somebody really “Nookd” this one up. A recent Nook version of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel War and Peace replaces the word “kindled” with the word “Nookd,” an apparent attempt to get rid of...
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YouTube co-founder’s digital magazine startup Zeen to launch next week
Most people who see a $1.65 billion exit of their company would be content to retire from the business world, but that’s rarely the case in the tech industry, as YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley...
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Splitting the baby: News Corp. may separate entertainment, newspaper businesses
News Corp’s entertainment business is surging. Its newspaper sector — not so much. This is likely why News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch is considering splitting the company’s publishing and...
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Zinio shares digital magazine usage data ahead of rumored sale (infographic)
It’s no secret that digital magazines are gaining a foothold among consumers, and thanks to some new consumer data released today digital magazine storefront Zinio we have a small window into how...
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Electronic book sales doubled in 2011 (and the industry is just finding out now)
BookStats, the “center for publishing market data” just released its 2012 report. The big news? Ebook sales doubled last year, especially in the adult fiction category. Even bigger, overall industry...
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Sprout Social knows when you’re sleeping, awake, and checking social media
Sprout Social kicked off two new publishing tools today to further help businesses get the most out of their social media campaigns: Sprout Queue and ViralPost. Sprout Queue makes it easier to...
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Amazon Kindle Singles: 3.5M sold, 35 in Kindle top 50
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos laid out some pretty impressive numbers for its Kindle Singles program during a press conference in Santa Monica, Calif., today. To date, Amazon has sold 3.5 million Singles,...
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Amazon: Who says the book is dead?
The rise of the e-book has always been synonymous with the decline of the paperback. It’s the storied zero-sum conundrum for booksellers. But during yesterday’s Kindle press event, Amazon CEO Jeff...
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Jack Dorsey: the future of Twitter is anything (and everything)
The handlers were a little nervous. Jack Dorsey, the undisputed headliner of the conference, was entering the press room after his onstage Q&A. “We’ve got about 10 minutes. Please keep your...
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GENWI takes extra $2M to be the delivery boy of mobile content
Writing is the easy part. It’s distributing your work it effectively and attractively to a range of mobile devices that is the challenge. Cloud publishing company GENWI has added $2 million to it...
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Mobile app Tagwhat tells the online story of our lonely planet
July 9-10, 2013 San Francisco, CA Early Bird Tickets on Sale Every place has a story, and Dave Elchoness is on a mission to tell it. Or at least to let the Internet tell it. Elchoness is the CEO of...
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RAMP soaks up $15M for better content digestion
RAMP is hungry and has filled its belly with $15 million in new funding. The company helps online publishers get the most out of their content, just like tossing a little olive oil on tomatoes...
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Former AdMob team launches an iPad app store for self-published comic books
With New York Comic-Con in full swing this weekend, undoubtedly lots of comic book fans are anxious to show off their own self-published work. But they have only a few digital publishing options in...
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Wired editor leaves journalism, starts company to improve it
The Internet has fundamentally changed the way people consume content, as well as the way writers and editors create it. Today, Contextly has emerged from stealth mode to change the way digital...
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Honey, I shrunk the web: Netbiscuits raises $27M
In the US, biscuits go with gravy. In the UK, biscuits go with tea. In Germany, biscuits go towards mobile publishing, or at least Netbiscuits do. Software company Netbiscuits has raised $27 million...
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