One of the surprises of the panel discussions at today’s Digital Book World conference was the amount of talk about print-on-demand, both of its benefits and its drawbacks. While some of the talk was about how not enough emphasis is being put on POD as a viable program option for authors, and more than one  [ Read More ]

Amazon is making it easy for customers to load up their new devices with the “Best of Digital” store, which features recommendations from Amazon’s team of editors on must-have movies & TV shows, music, video games, software, mobile apps, magazines and Kindle books, along with hundreds of deals on digital content. Historically, Christmas day is  [ Read More ]

With the improvements to digital reading that came about with the widespread development of full-color tablets, interactive children’s book apps and digital comics apps have taken off. GoodEReader recently reported on the Pocket God comics that grew out of the popular game of the same name, and now the creators of the multi-million-download Cut The  [ Read More ]

San Francisco based Zinio is one of the leading digital newsstands before Yahoo, Apple and other companies found it fashionable to launch their own services. Yesterday the company had raised 20 million dollars from unknown investors. The company is thought to primarily use the money for marketing to attract more magazine publishers and develop new  [ Read More ]

According to Affinity’s American Magazine Study, consumers are more likely to take an action — such as visiting an auto manufacturer’s website or going to a dealer for a test drive — as a result of viewing an auto ad in a digital magazine rather than after viewing traditional print ads. On average, consumers are  [ Read More ]

According to RISI, a research firm specializing in the global forest products industry, media tablets (in which category RISI includes e-ink based ereaders) are becoming  a ubiquitous mass-market consumer product around the world faster than any previous consumer technology device.  This has repercussions not only for publishers and brick and mortar bookstores as consumers switch  [ Read More ]

If you like reading magazines and newspapers on your iPad, you’re in luck. Barnes & Noble announced that NOOK for iPad customers will soon be able to access one of the largest selections of digital periodicals. iPad users will have access to popular daily, weekly and monthly periodicals, including Esquire, Maxim, Forbes, Food Network Magazine,  [ Read More ]

Baker & Taylor, which is the world’s largest book distributer, has developed a new digital media distribution platform for libraries. The new platform, Axis 360, is being shown off at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference currently happening in New Orleans. Axis 360 will promote the use of the Blio ereading software, which currently only  [ Read More ]

GoodEReader.com has published several updates on the state of spam and pirated ebooks that have been flooding the online retail bookseller sites, many of which are nothing more than PLR or outright stolen content, pasted into a converter, sometimes without even bothering to change the title or cover design. It’s a problem that some in  [ Read More ]

Barnes & Noble has announced an updated version of its popular, free NOOK for Android eReading application that brings the most comprehensive selection of digital periodicals to customers with Android tablets including more than 140 top magazine and newspaper brands from ESPN The Magazine and The Economist to Food & Wine and Us Weekly.  NOOK  [ Read More ]