A platform on which children’s can borrow and read ebooks, BookBites integrates visual elements and tracking tools to encourage reading and book discovery.
Mexico’s Conaculta Launches Book Sales Website
Mexico’s arts and culture council (Conaculta) launched librosmexico.mx, a book sales platform designed to solve production and distribution challenges.
Introducing BackTypo, A Self-Publishing Tool with Italian Flair
Giacomo D’Angelo, product manager at Narcissus.me describes how BackTypo promises to help authors build beautiful books simply and easily.
Chinese E-publishing Platform Shanda Cloudary Takes in $110m Investment
Goldman Sachs and Singapore’s Temasek have invested $110 million in Shanda Cloudary, China’s leading digital publishing platform, now valued at $600 million.
Joshua Tallent of Ebook Architects on the State of Digital Publishing
Joshua Tallent, well-known ebook expert and founder of Ebook Architects, shares his views on current issues in digital publishing and ebook development.
Digital Business Guide Publisher Acceli.io Opens Platform to All
Add Ottawa-based Accel.io to the growing list of new digital publishing platforms making a play for that as-yet-published how-to guidebook on your desktop.
Top German Booksellers + Bertelsmann + Telekom = Mega E-book Project
This Friday, booksellers Thalia, Weltbild, Hugendubel, as well as Bertelsmann and Deutsche Telekom, will announce a new project. Speculators say it may be an ebook platform.
Share Your Top Publishing Prediction for 2013
Will 2013 feature more publishing consolidation? Free Kindles? Goodreads becoming a bookseller? Will a self-publisher win a major prize? Share your thoughts.
Zola E-book Store Puts Publishers Up Front
Zola Books, a forthcoming e-book platform, offered a sneak peek at their services at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Zola plans to officially launch in one week.
Indie Booksellers of Catalonia Launch E-books with Libranda
Liberdrac, a new e-book platform for the independent booksellers of Catalonia, powered by Libranda and offering 2,000 titles in Catalan, has launched.