From Book Oven to PressBooks, Hugh McGuire Shares His Startup Story Hugh McGuire is a well known Montreal entrepreneur. In fact, he’s known all over the world. Hugh is the founder of LibriVox, the largest catalog of audio books from the public domain. It’s a great service and continues to grow. A few years ago, Hugh decided to take a crack at building a “for-profit” company called Book Oven. The goal was to build a platform for book publishing. 5 Essentials for Digital Magazine Publishing Success By Chris Sturk • 07/12/2012 If you’ve already worked out the formatting, design and content structure of your digital magazine publishing efforts, then it’s time to consider some aligned essentials. Digital magazine publishing success relies on having great content and finding the most devoted audience members. The following five digital magazine publishing essentials focus on ways to promote your content throughout digital platforms, and how to educate your audience about the digital magazines you offer. Digital magazine publishing essentials Digital magazine publishing essential #1: Social media – Social media has been used to maintain relationships with audience members and inspire the sharing of content through audience members’ networks.
Oomph - Tools - OomphBox Oomph HQ Oomph is a digital publishing platform that is easy use whilst giving you the flexibility to control your design, use your existing workflows and customise features — all without the need to know any coding. Sign up to get FREE access to the Oomph tools including Oomph Editor and the Getting Started Bundle. How does it work? Want to learn more? Booklet - jQuery Plugin what is it? Booklet is a jQuery tool for displaying content on the web in a flipbook layout. It was built using the jQuery library. Licensed under the MIT license. Infographic: The Affordable Future of College Textbooks - Nicholas Jackson - Technology The average college student spends about $900 every year just on textbooks. That, in addition to rising tuition costs, boarding costs and activity fees, is making college more expensive than it's ever been. Publishing pioneers and textbook innovators are pushing open textbooks, or works that students can read digitally, print out on their own or buy in a more traditional format. With reduced distribution costs, open source textbooks should save students some money while also allowing them to digest new information in their chosen format. OnlineSchools.org put together an infographic that covers the movement to get more open textbooks on the market.
Digital Publishing Remits: Getting 75% from Apple By Don Nicholas • 04/16/2012 John Bolton, group publisher at Interweave, has been negotiating, if you could call it that, with Apple, Zinio, Barnes & Noble and other digital affiliates. As he points out, the negotiation is pretty one-sided. Appliness: digital magazine Hi guys! I’ve been working on a new project for several weeks. As my team is now extending its audience and its skills, we were looking for innovative ways to reach web application developers.
Turn.js: The page flip effect in HTML5 Hyphenation in NOOK Color What I really wanted to be writing about today was my new miniguide about, uh, well I'll tell you soon, which is all ready to go, but unfortunately not yet available on my shopping cart site. As soon as it is, I'll announce it here. (It's pretty cool :) Meanwhile, I've been working a lot with the NOOK Color and noticed that it was mangling my headlines, putting hyphens in even though I don't want them, and even cutting off the end of words sometimes. This despite using the standard CSS hyphen controls that I explained in this article here in February. Innovations in Digital Publishing Jeanniey Mullen | September 14, 2012 | 0 Comments inShare24 Whether it’s dynamic redirects for specific platforms, purchasing in Twitter, projectable purchases, or stickers and QR codes, innovation for the digital publishing industry is still on the rise. To say it’s been an interesting time for anyone in the magazine publishing industry is like explaining a tsunami as some choppy waves.
Onswipe Google Digital Newsstand & 2 Other Industry Myths By Don Nicholas • 03/19/2012 I had the pleasure of spending the evening recently with a group of publishing industry colleagues – most of them company CEOs. Unsurprisingly, the conversation turned to digital publishing, digital newsstands, and the programs offered by Apple, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Zinio, and the rumored Google Digital Newsstand. On Magazines and the iPad Reading magazines on the iPad is an exercise in frustration. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. As great a device and, more importantly, platform as Apple has created, magazine publishers have done nothing short of fumble the snap in their own end zone.