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The App: The Book of the Future?

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Two summers ago when I attended the Yale Publishing Course in 2011, I heard Nicolas Callaway of Callaway Digital Arts give a presentation called “The Kids Are All Right.” In it, he foretold the future of the book, claiming that not too long from now, we wouldn’t be reading books but instead using apps.

 

This issue of Independent Publisher follows on the heels of Digital Book World 2013, where hundreds of publishing professionals meet to discuss “developing, building and transforming their organization to compete in the new digital publishing environment.” We’ve known for years that ebooks are an unavoidable part of the business, but now we need to start taking a good hard look at apps ...


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Reading is evolving. It's inevitable. Children's Apps are an exciting step in this great adventure.

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Facebook Introduces Pinterest-Style, Curated "Collections"

Facebook Introduces Pinterest-Style, Curated "Collections" | Young Adult and Children's Stories | Scoop.it

Robin Good: Facebook has introduced a new curation feature designed to allow its users to collect and organize their favorite "products" into so-called "Collections".

 

According to Hubspot "the new feature called 'Collections,' allows marketers to add “Want” or “Collect” buttons to news feed posts about products."

 

Source: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/33698/Facebook-Tests-Pinterest-Style-Feature-Called-Collections.aspx

 

The new FB "Collections" is publicly available to everyone, and it is being tested "with 7 retail partners -- Pottery Barn, Wayfair, Victoria’s Secret, Michael Kors, Neiman Marcus, Smith Optics, and Fab.com."

(you need to go to those FB brad pages to test it).

 

It also seems that the feature can be activated in at least three different ways by one of these three upcoming action buttons:

 

a) "Want": adds the product to a Timeline section of a user's profile called “Wishlist”

 

b) "Collect": adds the item to a Collection called “Products”

 

c) "Like": a special version of the standard "Like" button that also adds the item to “Products”

 

N.B.: While Collections are free for business pages to use, they're only visible to the page's fans. You have to "Like" the page in order to see these types of posts.

 

Find out more here: http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/33698/Facebook-Tests-Pinterest-Style-Feature-Called-Collections.aspx

 

and here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/08/facebook-collections/

 

 

 

 

 

 


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