Making good on its plans for Latin American expansion, ebook distributor Bookwire buys Brazil’s Distribuidora de Livros Digitais, DLD.
Brazil’s E-book Market: Order, But Slow Progress
Digital distribution and retailing is ramping up, but a year after publishers started investing in innovation just 4,000 titles are available in Brazilian Portuguese.
Will Collaborative E-book Distribution Platforms Last?
Spain’s Libranda, Italy’s E-digita, France’s Eden Livres, Brazil’s DLD — they’ll all last only as long as publishers need them. By Edward Nawotka Several markets have seen collaborative e-book distribution platforms launch within the last year: Libranda launched Spain; in Italy Rizzoli, Feltrinelli and Gruppo Gems developed the E-digita platform; a French group comprised of Gallimard, Flammarion and others brought out …
Der Facebook-Effekt: Carl Hanser Verlag and DLD Conference Collaborate on Book Series
By Siobhan O’Leary The seventh annual DLD conference is underway in Munich and one book that is sure to land in the spotlight is the German edition of The Facebook Effect by journalist and author David Kirkpatrick. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TuFkupUn7k Publisher Carl Hanser Verlag has teamed up with DLD Media to publish the German edition of the book (Der Facebook-Effekt), which bears both …
DLD Conference Comes to Beijing
by Helen Gregg DLD (Digital – Life – Design), a three-day cross-industry conference focusing on the creative aspects of digital media and marketing, will come to Asia for the first time in September. DLD is a project of Hubert Burda Media, one of the largest publishing groups in Germany. Originally held only in Munich, DLD has since expanded to host …