By Edward Nawotka Today’s lead story discusses Romanian Alexandru Brie’s attempt to bring stand alone iPhone/iPad apps to the masses via his TouchBookReader platform. As e-books have developed and gained acceptance, there have been two distinct steams of books landing on people’s phones: books packaged as individual apps and e-book reading platforms (such as Kindle, Nook, et al.) that allow …
Are You Developing for Android?
By Hannah Johnson Publishers, now that you have all mastered the iBook format and created e-book and apps for Kindle, iPhone, iPad and Blackberry, it’s time to tackle the next rising star of the mobile world: Android. Ok, yes, Android has been around since last year, but only recently has it taken off in the United States. With Android’s open-source …
Why Cell Phones Will Dominate the E-Book Market in China
• In 2009, China ran up $1bn in sales of digital content, and the market is growing at an estimated 40% annually. In response China Publishing Group (CPG) -– China’s largest state-sponsored publishing conglomerate — has launched Digital Media Co. Ltd., a new digital media and technology subsidiary. • From August 24-27, the German Book Office Beijing is hosting a trip …
Will Cell Phones Prevail Over Dedicated Devices for Mass Market E-Reading?
By Edward Nawotka Today’s lead story discusses the importance of cell phone e-reading in the Chinese market. We reported in May that China Mobile will launch its own mobile e-book store. In emerging markets, cell phone are far more ubiquitous than dedicated e-reading devices, which are more expensive than phone and thus more exclusive and rare. In the US and …
Teenage Thumb Tribes: Why Cell Phone Novels are Part of Publishing’s Future
This article appeared in our print edition for BookExpo America 2010. You can read the original here. By Jacob Lewis When I was seventeen, after reading Portnoy’s Complaint, I send an adoring note to Philip Roth. It was a revelatory book for me, and I wanted to tell him how drawn I was to it. He never responded. I met …
China Mobile to Build China’s Biggest E-bookstore, Reveals Digital Strategy
By Wuping Zhao SHANGHAI: China Mobile — the world’s largest cell phone carrier — has announced that it was building China’s largest online digital bookstore. The company plans to offer its subscribers 3G wireless access to online publications including digital books, comics, newspapers and magazines — some 60,000 titles in all — and hopes to attract some 200 million users …