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 e-book content, reading services, and even devices through its Walmart stores as well as through development and launch of co-branded […]
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 Media for bringing Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette’s story to a wider audience. Colette was considered scandalous to the establishment in her day, but […]
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.
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 information on heir overall successes in the industry. Click through for a good look at some hard numbers – there […]
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 watching, for those of us making a living in this business. http://the-digital-reader.com/2015/08/13/harpercollins-reports-revenues-down-9-last-quarter/ H/t to The Digital Reader
