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Walmart Partners with Rakuten Kobo, Launches Walmart Ebooks

Metaphor Publications, Inc. Posted on August 23, 2018 by AE MatsonAugust 23, 2018
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If you were wondering what megacorporate titan was positioning itself to go head-to-head with Amazon’s Prime offerings, well, it looks like that will be Walmart, Inc. Earlier this year, Walmart and Rakuten Kobo announced a partnership  to offer a variety of … Continue reading →

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New from NBM Publishing: “Colette” Coming to Theaters in September

Metaphor Publications, Inc. Posted on August 2, 2018 by AE MatsonAugust 18, 2018
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This week, we learned that one installment in NBM Graphic Novels’  biography series “The Provocative Colette” has been made into a feature film starring Keira Knightly and is to premiere in theaters on September 21st. Congratulations to them and to Bleeker Street … Continue reading →

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The EPUB Connundrum

Metaphor Publications, Inc. Posted on January 11, 2016 by Michael MatsonNovember 20, 2017

For readers and publishers both, the EPUB format has everything one could want in a 21st century digital publication — except for one thing: Uniformity of presentation as described by the IDPF Standard. This post looks at some of the more common failings to be found in the EPUB reader ecosystem, and proposes changes that the IDPF could make to the EPUB Standard that would help it live up to its goal of being "the industry standard" for digital publications.

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Posted in Opinion, Publishing Industry News | Tagged amazon, copyright, drm, ebook, epub, idpf, indi-pub, publishing

Author Earnings 9-15 Report: Hard News for TradPub, Better for Indies

Metaphor Publications, Inc. Posted on September 14, 2015 by AE MatsonSeptember 14, 2015

As if you needed another reason to ignore the badly-flawed reporting of most of the mainstream media, it seems that lazy reporting has once again been at fault for giving the fast-growing indie author (and reader!) market some very bad … Continue reading →

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HarperCollins Reports Revenues Down 9% Last Quarter | Digital Reader

Metaphor Publications, Inc. Posted on August 15, 2015 by AE MatsonAugust 15, 2015

Nothing like acquiring your way out of an earnings slump, unless, of course, the only way you can get that bottom line to look right is to layer the numbers… Still, earnings are down for the whole industry. It’s worth … Continue reading →

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