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La firma GFK, Growth from Knowledge, acaba de presentar un informe sobre el estado general de la edición en Holanda que por una parte revela que en el primer trimestre de 2013 las ventas de libros electrónicos experimentaron un ascenso del cuarenta y cinco por ciento si bien el volumen general de venta en el sector del libro se redujo un cuatro y medio por ciento respecto a 2012.

So why do these library ebooks, which cost nothing to duplicate, need to be "returned"? It's only the license that gets returned; the bits themselves just get deactivated (via some form of digital rights management, DRM). The reason for the return is market segmentation. Publishers want to make their books available in libraries, but not in such a way that the library book substitutes for a consumer book purchase.

When Open Road Media launched in 2009, the idea of an all-digital publisher was still fairly new. Nearly four years later, it’s encountering more competition as publishers of all sizes hone their digital strategies.

In a funny way, fan fiction is the purest form of literary art there is, the one most untainted by commerce. It’s hard to make money from it because someone else owns the intellectual property (unless you change the details just enough, in which case you can make quite a lot of money on it. Just ask E.L. James.)

Ahead of last year’s FutureBook Innovation Workshop, we published our ‘ten challenges to innovation in publishing’.  Nearly one year on, what are the new challenges to publishers when it comes to digital innovation? At the FutureBook Innovation Workshop in Association with The Literary Platform speakers will be demonstrating how they are currently dealing with some of these challenges – but here are some outline thoughts ahead of the event. 

Lee una muestra de Mob y Dic descubren los números de Alfons Freire o descárgalo con iBooks.

New venture Librii is seeking to set up self-sustaining libraries with internet access in poor and isolated communities, writes James Bridle

Yesterday, I wrote about how you can call external audio/video files in an EPUB3 document. This works brilliantly in iBooks and Readium, but so far, nowhere else. What happens when it doesn't work is actually pretty interesting. According to the spec, you can add a fallback message, and indeed a fallback photo or link. In this case, I've used the poster image as a fallback image.

Google has updated its Play Books e-reader apps for iOS and Android to include support for EPUB and PDF files from outside the Play Store. The new feature has been enabled as part of Google's strategy to unite its cloud services, allowing users to either upload their ebooks via its website, or import them from their Google Drive storage. Google says that users will be able to store up to 1,000 files for free, as long as they are under 50MB.

En este pabellón descubrí una editorial digital de gran interés y proyección: Bilineata Publishing. Se trata de una empresa editorial totalmente digital, hasta el momento únicamente producen títulos para Apple, esencialmente debido a la descomunal cuota de mercado que Apple tiene en Colombia, creo recordar que me habló de cerca del 70%. Y el rasgo distintivo de su producción es la enorme calidad de sus obras, tanto en el contenido como en el continente, sus productos editoriales son verdaderamente punteros y espectaculares.

Book publishers discussed digital-first and digital-only initiatives at the Making Information Pay conference.

A year ago, we announced the death of our daily newspaper, the Oregon Daily Emerald, and the birth of a modern college media company. But it was that October night when the Emerald Media Group really took charge.
In the seven months since that party, the Revolution has worked in most of the ways we can measure. But we also see flaws yet to be fixed and lessons yet to be learned from our college peers. Here’s more on the results, the lessons and the future of the Revolution.

In the seven months since that party, the Revolution has worked in most of the ways we can measure. But we also see flaws yet to be fixed and lessons yet to be learned from our college peers. Here’s more on the results, the lessons and the future of the Revolution. - See more at: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2013/05/13-lessons-from-our-college-media-revolution-and-what-were-building-next#sthash.sRXPuzVw.dpufIn the seven months since that party, the Revolution has worked in most of the ways we can measure. But we also see flaws yet to be fixed and lessons yet to be learned from our college peers. Here’s more on the results, the lessons and the future of the Revolution. - See more at: http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2013/05/13-lessons-from-our-college-media-revolution-and-what-were-building-next#sthash.sRXPuzVw.dpuf

As academic and educational publishers continue to develop digital services, sophisticated analytics are becoming increasingly important. Interest in education technology has also created a positive climate for tech start-ups, allowing them to develop their offerings and provide much sought after services to the publishing industry. With measurable success and proof of effectiveness so important, we take a look at 3 acquisitions where publishers establish analytics services through the purchase of promising start-ups.

Earlier I wrote about the possibility that the new channels of e-book marketing might soon be saturated by the efforts of a new generation of publicists, agents and book promoters—once these had mastered social media and other techniques for getting their message in front of readers—to the detriment of indies or individual self-publishers. Now it seems this is happening before my eyes.

The platform could give publishers a new tool in their quest to monetize online content. Not only does it let mobile websites issue push notifications, but it also introduces new real estate for ads.

Las bibliotecas municipales de Sevilla facilitan la descarga gratuita de 1.823 libros electrónicos. En los dos últimos años se han producido 76.000 descargas. Ante el éxito, en los próximos meses incorporarán 1.500 obras más en formato ePub.

Plenty of people rightly mocked the news a few years ago that the Associated Press was working on a plan to "DRM the news." The idea was to put some sort of licensing mechanism together to get news aggregators to pay to promote their news.

Diego Moreno, editor de Nórdica Libros, está convencido de que las claves son hacer bien las cosas y cobrar un precio razonable por un trabajo de calidad.

Children are spending more time time reading on computers or other electronic devices than on books, magazines and comics for the first time, according to a study out today.

Lee una muestra de Booqui y Quiboo buscan un pollo de Alfons Freire o descárgalo con iBooks.

The U.S. consumer book publishing industry had a strong 2012, fueled in part by the growth of ebooks.