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What Happens When an Ebook Gets Updated?
By India Amos, TextistSo, here’s the partial answer to a question I’ve been wondering about:Subject: Kindle Title [title] (ASIN:[ASIN]) has an available updateGreetings from Amazon.com.We’re writing...
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Digital Reading: A Designer Deploys His Left Brain
By Anne Kostick, Partner, Foxpath INDOne gift of the Web era is the flowering of interaction design as a professional discipline. The insights and lessons of experimentation in just those areas we book...
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Reader Experience and Ebooks: What UX Experts Can Teach Publishers
A free WEBcast presented by Digital Book World. The audio archive of the WEBcast is available to Digital Book World Members. In the ebook space, publishers need to know that their job doesn’t end with...
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Digital Reading: The Web Gives Important Feedback
By Anne Kostick, Partner, Foxpath INDWhile we talk about what readers really want in digital books, and while publishers and designers ponder enhanced, transmedia, audio-, video-, social- and...
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Digital Reading: The Infinite Variety of Experience
In an earlier column listing UX bookshelf titles, I said that inspiration sometimes comes from surprising sources. Last month’s surprise was the outstanding but short-lived show from the American Folk...
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Reflecting on Magazines for a New Generation
Earlier this week, I attended the Center for Communication event, “Magazines for a New Generation” at The New School, which featured representatives from Glamour, Vanity Fair, Teen Vogue, and more. The...
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Designing Better Ebooks (Roundtable 6/30/11)
The DBW Roundtable is a live, interactive webcast featuring some of the most outspoken industry professionals gathering to discuss and debate the hottest publishing issues of today.In this bi-weekly...
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Ebook Specific Cover Design: Size and Resolution
By Piotr Kowalczyk, Founder of Ebook FriendlyWhen you make a decision to publish your book only in digital format, you are also making an essential change in how you approach cover design. You no...
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Good, Better, Best: An Ebook Reader’s Review of Formatting & Design
The DBW Roundtable is a live, interactive webcast featuring some of the most outspoken industry professionals gathering to discuss and debate the hottest publishing issues of today.In this bi-weekly...
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The Publishing Innovation Awards Introduce the QED Seal
Digital Book World announced today its 2nd Annual Publishing Innovation Awards and the founding of the QED, a standard for excellence in digital book production.Recognizing innovation, usability, user...
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Digital Reading: Judging Books by Their Covers
Is digital publishing so focused on maximizing its metadata that it neglects a crucial component of digital bookselling—the cover? While talking with Nathan Maharaj, Kobo’s Director of Merchandising...
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Why Are T-Shirts More Valuable Than Ebooks?
My brothers-in-law recently started a T-shirt sales website. Grizz Riley.com sells comfy, cool T-shirts for $25. I fully support their entrepreneurial launch. But I couldn’t help thinking about it in...
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