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The New Kindle Format 8 (KF8)

by Sabrina EBooks

Part 3 of the Understanding EPUB 3.0 webcast series was called An Alternative to EPUB 3.0: Inside the New Kindle Format 8 (KF8). The presenter was Joshua Tallent, president of eBook Architects. (To read my other posts on this series, see EPUB 3 and EPUB 3.0 Workflow).

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This Week in Publishing

by Sabrina Publishing

Oh no! Spam has made it to the Kindle! Content farms, which some people hate and think are scams and others see as a new and successful business model (think Associated Content and DemandMedia), are packaging articles in the form of multiple, “original” ebooks, selling a few copies of many ebooks for a tidy profit. [...]

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The Future of Publishing…We’re In It

by Sabrina Publishing

Three interesting articles about the publishing industry caught my eye today. But first, I’ve found that reading and thinking critically about articles goes more smoothly with music, so I invite you to play the video below and enjoy the sweet sounds of “Stereo Love” while reading the rest of my post. (And yes, I may [...]

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This Week in Publishing

by Sabrina Publishing
digital publishing

Photo by Toby Hudson, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The next big step for e-books seems to be its lending capabilities. Up until recently, e-books could not be lent to friends, at least not without many restrictions, and it was a huge drawback compared to print books, which could be easily shared. But a New Jersey-based [...]

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Barnes & Noble

by Sabrina Blog Photos
Barnes & Noble Nook

Rumor has it that Barnes & Noble may no longer exist one year from now. In the meantime, I can enjoy their stores and Christmas decorations. And I can also play around with their Nook. The new color Nook was recently released. It uses LED like Apple’s iPad, but it’s formatted similarly to Amazon’s Kindle–with [...]

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11/29/10: Publishing This Week

by Sabrina Publishing

California, as a way to save money and improve education, is going to use open source, free textbooks (yay!). Since there’s not enough money to give every student a laptop, there’s some skepticism as to how well this will work. But it’s the first state to try this and something is better than nothing (California K-12 education was ranked 49th [...]

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11/22/10: This Week in the Publishing World

by Sabrina Publishing

Since it’s Thanksgiving in a couple days, thought I’d post the publishing news early this week. I don’t know if it’s because I’m taking a Writing for Children’s class, but I keep noticing the topic of children’s books in my classes. Anyway, today the  Association of Booksellers for Children approved a merger with the American Booksellers Association. [...]

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What’s Happening in the Publishing World

by Sabrina Publishing

Every week for my Interactive Media class, I post links to current articles about what’s going on in the publishing world. So here’s a list of what’s happening this week: First, here is an argument against the agency model for e-books. Annette Green writes about how, through the agency model, publishers are basically screwing themselves. Print versions [...]

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