Amazon's announcement on Tuesday of its new Matchbook offer, allowing customers to buy discounted digital versions of print books they’d previously bought from the retailer,... Read more
As our industry becomes increasingly hybrid – ever more digital, yet still significantly paper-based – the necessity to innovate is a growing problem for publishers... Read more
App review: The Doctor Who Encyclopedia (BBC Books and Brandwidth; iPad only) The wheezing, groaning TARDIS take-off sound that greets the user on launching this... Read more
With the release of their Cloud Reader browser app for Kindle, Amazon has become the first of the major booksellers to respond to Apple's recent... Read more
Amber Books' latest app, following swiftly on the heels of its well-received D-Day: 1944, is an interesting example of the growing genre of "coffee-table apps"... Read more
Last week's ePublishing Innovation Forum may have been aimed at the “information industry”, but the issues addressed often applied across the entire publishing sector. Read more
One of the most in-demand events at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair was Friday’s round-table discussion: The eBook Business: Who’s in Control? Entry was so... Read more
In a blogpost here at Futurebook, shortly after this year's London Book Fair, Sam Missingham , the Bookseller's unofficial “chief twitterer”, suggested that UK publishing... Read more
I spend far too much of my time thinking about the music business. It's partly the emotional attachment formed by spending my formative years listening... Read more
Sunday's London Book Fair Digital Conference was marked by an optimism about the prospects for the industry. George Lossius from Publishing Technology set the tone... Read more
