Too many do-it-yourselfers don't actually do anything--then expect to become the next Amanda Hocking. The author of "The Problem With Women ... Is Men" breaks down the economics of self-publishing and his own winning strategies. READ»
At its New York event, Apple's Phil Schiller just revealed that the tech giant has big plans to reinvent the educational textbook market and the technology that underpins their use in lessons.READ»
Apple has a press event tomorrow--and not on the West Coast, but in New York City. It's something different. Something new. Something, we think, to do with education, textbooks, and major disruption. Will school ever be the same?READ»
When I dipped my toe in the world of digital publishing, I expected the tech to be puzzling, the marketing untested, and the devices shiny but confusing. What I didn't count on was the crowd of people we used to call "readers" to turn into a chorus of critics demanding to be engaged. The journey to creating this app involved a whole new way of thinking and a unique workflow. READ»
How can you transform lives? What lessons have you learned that you would like to impart to others? What do you wish you had known long, long ago? If you think about it long and hard, you may realize that you have a lot to share with your audience. READ»
In 2009, media critic Clay Shirky wrote an essay called "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable," in which he put the economic woes of paper-based newsmedia into historical and cultural context. The tl;dr version of his argument: ...READ»
Another not-yet-published children's book has become a sensation by means of a free, viral PDF--this time, a book based off of David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Is consensual piracy the new way to launch a career in illustration?READ»
Will digital distribution revitalize the comics industry or kill it? DC Comics brings judgment day nearer with a big move to "day and date" digital release for its "New 52" launch.READ»
Making sure a print book "translates" well, experience-wise, on a Kindle or iPad is hard enough for normal publishers to do -- but it's extra-challenging for Visual Editions, the arty fiction publisher that turns every book into a ...READ»
With recent tech improvements, Augmented Reality is growing from a playful technology into one that could influence many industries--from retail to security to publishing. It may kill the QR code too...READ»
Gourmet’s demise in 2009 left serious foodies with an aching hunger for a literate cooking magazine. Nothing has stepped in to replace it, but Lucky Peach, a new quarterly food journal from McSweeney’s, Dave Eggers’s publishing ...READ»
Geoff Keighley is kind of like the John McPhee of video game journalism: he made his name by publishing exhaustively reported, fly-on-the-wall accounts of the making of blockbuster games like Metal Gear Solid 2 and Half-Life 2. Then ...READ»
A new study shows readers of iPad magazines find their attention wandering. A lot. And any way you spin it, that's a tricky finding for both publishers and advertisers.READ»
HarperCollins wants e-books--and their licenses--to expire over time. Many lenders aren't happy. But one HC author says giving it away is good for business. Here's a story about all of that (which won't ever expire). READ»
Does the world need another e-publishing app? Evan Ratliff, Nicholas Thompson, and Jefferson Rabb think so, and they've created The Atavist to prove it: an iTunes-like store for a la carte, original, long-form narrative journalism -- ...READ»
One of the silliest things about all the hand-wringing over the death of print is the idea that there's some unbridgeable divide between physical books and digital technology, that the latter exists solely to destroy the former. In ...READ»
