A new Kindle eBook reader from Amazon was announced this week, enhancing their line of existing e-readers. The new Kindle Oasis expands upon the line of Kindle eBook readers rather than replacing any of the current models. The new Kindle ebook reader also offers an available protective case that…
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The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to consider an appeal by Apple in the ruling that the company had conspired with publishers to increase the price of eBooks. Earlier an appeal’s court had held that Apple encouraged publishers to artificially increase the price of digital books. As a…
The educational textbook market has been seeing high growth in the sales of digital books compared to print books over the past several years. Recent reports show that this trend is continuing, with more schools and students buying digital books than print books according to data provided by one…
While newspapers traditionally have an editor that oversees all news operations, they also generally have a separate role as publisher managing the business, finance, and sales side of a news operation. While those roles have blurred in recent years, the distinction was just completely…
The InDesign training class in Boston has been postponed due to the winter storm impacting Massachusetts and New England. The InDesign course will start one day later, on Tuesday, February 9. If you are impacted by the start date change for this InDesign class and wish to reschedule to another…
This weekend the New York Times moves beyond its nickname of the old grey lady and becomes the hip publisher of the future as they produced and distributed several stories using…
Philadelphia Media Network, the publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com announced their intention to combine the staff of the three publications which have been operating separately. As part of the consolidation, the publisher also indicated that layoffs…
The popularity of dedicated ebook readers has declined dramatically in popularity over the past 18 months, providing useful demographics information for book publishers that use InDesign to create eBooks. In 2014 nearly one third of adults indicated that they owned a dedicated ebook reader, but…
Publish Online with InDesign CC 2015
InDesign CC2015 Publish Online provides a new method for sharing content created using InDesign. InDesign documents can be uploaded to an Adobe web server and are available for viewing as a published file using most modern web browsers.…
This review of InDesign CC 2015 introduces you to new capabilities added to InDesign and helps you decide whether the upgrade is worthwhile. If you are using a Creative Cloud version of InDesign, the InDesign CC 2015 update is included with the subscription.
Risks of InDesign CC 2015…
Oyster’s eBook subscription service provides digital books across all major tablet and mobile operating systems, including the iPad, Nook HD, and Kindle devices. The service also provided access to eBooks from within any modern web browser. With more than 100,000 paid subscribers, Oyster…
The National Geographic Magazine, one of the longest-running publications as well as the most prominent nonprofit monthly magazine, is giving up its non-profit status. The magazine has operated as a part of the non-profit National Geographic Society since being founded in 1888.
The society…
The magazine publishing industry continues to see further shake-ups with the announcement today that magazine publisher Meredith Corporation is to be acquired by Media General in a deal worth $2.4 Billion. The acquisition by Media General is less about the print publishing operations and…
Many publishers that enroll in the InDesign classes at American Graphics Institute assume that the transition from print to digital should occur entirely within InDesign and other Adobe tools. A recent update to Adobe Digital Publishing Suite created the…
A revitalization of an interest in personalized book publishing is coming from a publishing segment that has been ignored by most publishers and been stagnant for decades: personalized children’s books. Entrepreneur Asi Sharabi saw an opportunity to apply modern technology to the old…
Recently Adobe released an update they are labeling as InDesign CC 2015. If you are a user of Adobe DPS, the Digital Publishing Suite, this update to InDesign is one step forward and two steps back. Adobe has not included any of the Adobe DPS menu commands or panels in this version of InDesign…
If you are looking for a way to more easily create ebook files for all major platforms and devices, you may find a new tool, Playwrite, from Wundr to be useful. It is designed exclusively for creating eBook files using the ePub format. Wundr creates ePub3 files that can be distributed on the…
When deciding to distribute your books electronically, you have a number of decisions because there is not a single digital document format for magazines, books, and other publications. You may wonder whether you should use ePub or Adobe DPS or Kindle’s mobi file format.
The correct…