Bestseller Simon Winchester dishes on Skulls, Touch Press’ newest book app, which features 360 degree high-resolution rotations of over 300 animal skulls.
It’s Elemental: Touch Press at the Vanguard of Enhanced E-books
By Roger Tagholm LONDON: Digital books can boost the sales of their physical equivalents, but success in the digital arena will only come to those publishers that form “deep, serious partnerships”, according to Max Whitby, CEO of new, west London-based digital start-up Touch Press. “It’s no good publishers coming along and saying well here’s some technical people who can do …
Is the UK Ahead of the US in Enhancing E-books?
By Edward Nawotka Enhanced e-books are a hot topic in publishing. So far, I think, our imagination has outpaced our ability to execute and there have been few steller examples of how publishers can harness recent technological change to advance books as they appear in digital formats. One of the few examples that has really worked is London-based Touch Press’s …
Report from the UK’s FutureBook Conference: Bringing Great Writers into the Digital, Multimedia Mix
By Sophie Rochester LONDON: If there was a key lesson from the first FutureBook conference organized by The Bookseller magazine and held in London for the first time last year, it was “experiment, learn and adapt”. Back again for a second conference, held the past Tuesday, the UK publishing industry appears to be responding well to the challenges of digital …