Digital

Digitization is changing every aspect of the book publishing business, providing new opportunities for publishers and authors to create, market and sell their print and digital content.

How Developing Markets Fuel Wattpad’s Explosive Growth

Allen Lau, Wattpad

Markets often overlooked by Western publishers — like the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Saudia Arabia, Romania — are proving powerhouses for Wattpad says CEO Allen Lau.

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Putting Technology at the Heart of Writing and Publishing

Writing in a Digital Age

If, as Friday’s Writing in a Digital Age Conference in London underscored, technology is driving change in publishing, why are publishers’ websites still ‘universally awful’?

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Facing Challenges, Mexico Commits to Digital Publishing Push

Blanco by Octavio Paz was a top seller in the ITunes store for months.

Mexico’s digital publishing industry has been hampered by low internet penetration, yet the government and publishers are fighting to move ahead and innovate.

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Ebooks Still Lack a Category Defining Storytelling Experience

Burning the Page

Surveying the ebook discussions at BookExpo America, it’s clear that despite their popularity, ebooks still lack their own category of breakthrough storytelling experiences.

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Advocates, Authenticity, and Content are Key to Reaching Readers

Panel 3 Reaching Readers

Marketing and media professionals share their insights on latest trends and innovations in book promotion from Tuesday’s Publishing Perspectives Reaching Readers conference.

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E3 Software Aims to Streamline Literary Rights Management

E3 Rights Manager

Barcelona-based E3 has spent a decade developing a software as a service platform to help literary agencies and others manage rights more efficiently.

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Why Interactive Fiction is “Just Really Hard to Do”

The Numinous Place aims to capture and play with our conflicting realities, both physical and digital.

Despite celebrity backing, transmedia platform The Numinous Place has struggled to launch. Its story offers a case study in the challenges of developing interactive fiction.

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How Japan’s Discover 21 Hits Hot Trends to Produce Bestsellers

Yumiko Hoshiba, President, Discover 21

Tokyo’s Discover 21 publishing house, now launching in New York, has published a string of bestsellers at home by asking authors to address real-world issues with originality.

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Number of Publishers’ Branded Reader Communities Set to Explode

Jane Tappuni

Publishing Technology’s recent study reveals a majority of publishers plan to maintain or launch multiple branded online reader communities in the next two years.

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Big Data and MOOCs Herald Change for Academic Publishers

Dr. Dennis Gannon is Director of Cloud Research Strategy in the Connections team at Microsoft Research.

This year’s US Innovations Seminar of the International Association of STM Publishers focused on the impact of data mining, MOOCs and new author/researcher tools.

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