Emoji Dick, A Novel Translated into Emoji, Accepted by Library of Congress.
Masthead Online Blogs - Gadget Blog. I attended some great conferences and parties in Toronto and Vancouver this past June; conferences are a good time for reflection and to learn something new.
In Vancouver, I learned about a site called “Creative Commons” ( that protects a writer’s digital distribution rights through licenses. I attended an entertaining seminar, “What it really takes to get Paid for Digital Content” at Magnet in Toronto, presented by Kevin McKean, VP/Editorial Director Consumer Reports. This seminar is the inspiration of this month’s posting. Paid Digital Content – Creating scarcity in cyberspace – Part One – B2C, part two will be on the B2B market, and will be published this fall. 2012 Digital Publishing Industry Report. Curious as to how your peers are using digital publishing to promote and grow their businesses?
Planning to publish a book in the near future, but wondering how your colleagues are going about this? And if you have already published, do you want to know what next steps your colleagues are taking to leverage digital publishing even further? In our first annual digital publishing study, more than 1000 online entrepreneurs…including coaches, consultants, trainers, speakers and other small business owners…reveal how they are currently using and plan to use… digital publishing in their businesses. A Quick Preview. 5 Reasons Why Web Publishing is Changing (Again) We're witnessing another sea change in Web publishing.
From Pinterest at the beginning of this year to the launch this week of a new product from two Twitter founders, Medium, 2012 has been a year where the norms of publishing are being challenged. It wasn't that long ago that Tumblr and Wordpress were the cutting edge of publishing. But there's a new edge and it's populated by the likes of Medium (a kind of categorized Tumblr), Branch (the sister site of Medium, for discussions), App.net (a microblogging platform) and Svbtle (an elite network of indie bloggers). Welcome to Medium — About Medium. Create Free iPhone App Using Online Interface Builder.
Calaméo – Publish your documents. eBook App Maker » How Our App Works. Make a blog. The Digital Reader - The Best News and Info on eReaders and Tablets. Findings: discover, organize, and share your highlights. Current Trends in the Digital Publishing World. Hi, my name is D’vorah Lansky and I am excited to share this blog post, on the topic of Digital Publishing, with you.
I’d like to thank Kathleen for hosting me during this virtual tour, in honor of Digital Publishing Virtual Summit, where we feature 20 world-renowned book marketing experts. Today I’ll be talking about current trends in the Digital Publishing world. Tablets Are Destroying Stories by Micah Baldwin. I spend the majority of my day with creators, authors and publishers.
The ability of storytellers to see a world that could exist and share it with words and pictures is amazing. When I am not chatting with storytellers, I am talking about how to distribute their stories digitally. Easy right? Just put it on iBooks or Kindle or NOOK. Done. Zopler - Collaborative Storytelling. Byliner. The New Yorker to Tweet Entire Short Story. Kindle Direct Publishing: Help. Professional translation services are available to publishers who are interested in translating their KDP work into other languages, further widening their global audience.
Finding a Translator for Your Desired Language. 3 frequent mistakes to be avoided during the creation of your digital publication. Why Publishers Don't Like Apps. By the time Apple released the iPad in April of 2010, only four months after Steve Jobs first announced his “magical and revolutionary” new machines, traditional publishers were gripped by a collective delusion.
They had convinced themselves that tablet computers and smart phones would allow them to unwind their unhappy histories with the Internet. For publishers whose businesses had evolved during the long day of print newspapers and magazines, the expansion of the Internet was terribly disorienting. The Web taught readers that they might read stories whenever they liked without charge, and it offered companies more efficient ways to advertise; both parties spent less. Things Reviewed:Technology Review iPad app version 2.0 The Daily iPad-only newspaper Financial Times html5 website www.ft.com. Storyboard. Of the thousands and thousands of micro-cultures extant today, the pursuit of bending things is a particularly niche obsession.
This is the world of Bending Steel, which follows the personal journey of Chris Schoeck as he tries to find path forward to improving his body, mind, and spirit. He locates this path via the traditions of the vaudeville strongmen of Coney Island, who were known to bend nails, horseshoes, and steel bars with their hands, legs, necks, or even their hair and teeth. As Schoeck trains and challenges himself to bend, he finds a family of sorts among other would-be strongmen – the kind of kinship and validation that had eluded him for his entire life. The story culminates in a strongman show on Coney Island where Schoeck attempts to bend a steel bar that has always defeated him before, in front of his friends and a crowd of strangers who represent all his fears and doubts. . – Chris Mohney. 3 Ways to Visualize Text with Infomous. Now that artsy sites like Pinterest and Instagram are reaching critical mass, even writers need a way to make their stories pop.
Recently, publishers like The Economist, The Washington Post, and Entertainment Weekly have turned to a text visualization tool called Infomous to give readers a fresh perspective on current events. Reminiscent of comic strip dialogue and brainstorming models, Infomous turns keywords from articles and Twitter feeds into clickable bubbles that link to other content within your site.
The more often a word appears, the larger it looks in the cloud. The words update in real-time and can be moderated by clicking on an “x” to delete unwanted or irrelevant words. Said Infomous president Paolo Gaudiano, “It makes it easy for you to figure out what’s relevant to you.” 1. In August 2011, The Washington Post asked its readers to write about their struggles with unemployment to “show the real impact of joblessness” in America. Share Comics on Facebook, For the First Time Ever! How to Promote Your Book Using the New Facebook Timeline Features. [Note: this video was made for musicians who work with our sister company-- CD Baby-- but the same new Facebook Timeline features are available to authors, too.]
———————————————–Yep. Facebook has done it again—they’ve flipped the switch and made another drastic change: Your author Facebook page will soon be a Facebook Timeline. All Facebook Pages (including band, brand, author, and company Pages) will automatically update to Facebook Timeline on March 30th. 12 Ways to Increase Your Readership Using Facebook Timeline. Facebook Timeline’s new promotion tools for authors As many folks are finding out (to their horror), Facebook Timeline does not allow fancy landing pages that collect email addresses or that encourage likes in exchange for free downloads of eBook samples, chapters, etc. Facebook now forbids calls-to-action and other direct marketing jargon on the cover photo. As tablet usage grows, can publishers evolve fast enough? As the buzz around the new iPad launch continues, both traditional and online publishers are “caught between the gravitational pull of the legacy tradition and the need to chart a faster digital course.”
That was a key finding in a recent Pew Research Center study on the state of the publishing industry. That “pull” was highlighted by Paul Rossi, the Managing Director and Executive Vice President of the Americas for The Economist at a recent digital publishing conference. Asked by the moderator, “What keeps you up at night?” He answered, “What worries me is the flurry of excitement over an iPad giveaway and there are a pile of The Economist magazines outside on the table.” But in the recent Pew Research Center study, the outlook of publishers is troubling. Publications Publishers Cite Tablets As Top Tech Priority 03/21. Publishers are making tablets a top priority when it comes to technology development this year. About 60% of business-to-business and business-to-consumer publishers cited tablets, mobile publishing and/or new Web products as a “high priority," according to a new survey by the Software & Information Industry Association.
Other types of projects were not mentioned nearly as widely. About four in 10 (42%) of the 85 publishers surveyed by the SIIA named licensing and syndication as a key area of focus this year, while 19% cited video. The study found that B2C companies tend to prioritize tablet publishing above all else, while their B2B counterparts put the creation of new Web-based offerings slightly above mobile and tablet publishing. When it comes to management’s perspective, C-level and VP-level executives are more focused on tablets than director-level company officers, suggesting that the former are looking further ahead than less senior managers.
E-magazine. Ebooks. Book apps. Pdf to app services. Workshop. 5 Digital Publishing App Trends to Watch in 2012. Erik Loehfelm is the executive director of user experience at Universal Mind, where he leads the design team in developing new, immersive app experiences for a variety of devices. He is also a leading voice in the digital publishing industry. Follow Erik @eloehfelm and read his blog. Digital publishing grew tremendously in 2011. Adults Now Spend More Time With Mobile Devices Than With Print Media. Adults are spending more time with their mobile devices than they're spending with print media, according to a report released Monday by eMarketer.
More Thoughts on Magazines and Publishing on the iPad. My takedown of the poor iPad experiences offered by major magazine publishers resonated with the audience. Encyclopedia Britannica Calls Off Its Print Edition And Goes Digital.