The impulse to hand over navigational control to readers in a digital book is considerable.
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In a lot of respects, teaching a customer to pay ten dollars for a digital book is a great accomplishment.
At the same time, the company reworked its customer loyalty program, overhauled its website and introduced a digital book store.
Mobcast provides a digital book retail platform with a catalogue of more than 130, 000 of the UK's most popular titles which can be bought and read on smartphones, tablets and e-readers.
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We tried to (make) an e-reader business in Japan by ourselves but two things: we want be a global company, so we want to do a digital book business all over the world.
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The three-day trade show includes 1, 500 exhibitors and more than 500 authors, plus a digital book zone that will no-doubt be a popular hub for readers wondering about iPad and the future of print media.
At first impression it may feel a bit wrong to publish a book called Digital Disruption in a form as old-school as a hardcover book.
Guesses range from an online game to a digital comic book to a virtual Harry Potter encyclopedia to a new promotional effort for the final movie in the franchise, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, " which hits theaters July 15.
Today, over at Digital Book World, I wrote a blog post about three kinds of digital book publishing start-ups that I am bullish on.
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It won a prize and soon publishers approached him, asking if he wanted to turn his digital book into a paper one.
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In return, donors will receive a digital version of the book they have pledged to write about their adventure.
Who, for instance, buys a digital copy of a book for their Kindle only to go out and buy a hardcover version?
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Two weeks ago they released their latest title, a high end digital parenting book that caters to mothers and fathers called Ready, Set, Baby!
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He and fellow journalist Pernille Tranberg just published a book on digital privacy, Fake It, which admonishes Internet users for, essentially, being too honest online.
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Earlier this year Apple unveiled a new version of its digital book store that supports textbooks, signaling that the company sees many of the same opportunities.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg, " said Don Tapscott, author of "Growing Up Digital, " a book exploring the generation that has grown up on the Web.
Squires, a serial entrepreneur based in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, previously cofounded Findaway, a company that made digital audio book players called the Playaway (see story about the Playaway here).
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As digital books have become a larger part of book-selling revenue, the issue of who owns the digital rights to older titles has become increasingly contentious because many older publishing contracts don't specify them.
Little, Brown also acquired audiobook rights, and e-book rights, a coup in itself given the growth of the digital-book market.
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But the full text of the book is available as a digital download here.
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If we do not program our own digital lives, he argues in a recent book, they will be programmed for us and not on favorable terms.
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But Gates shares Buffett's interest in the media world and even likes to joke that he has created a digital encyclopedia called Encarta that now outsells World Book, which is controlled by Buffett.
In this apocalyptic world there are no brick and mortar book stores, public libraries have lost all funding and closed, all books are published in a digital format, newspapers are written by untrained hacks with no editing taking place, and book signings then would be dimly remembered.
According to a new study conducted by research firm PlayScience and Digital Book World, nearly 40% of parents who have e-reading children aged 2-to-13 plan on buying them some sort of e-reading device this holiday season.
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The Face-to-Face Book: Why Real Relationships Rule in a Digital Marketplace, published in May by Free Press.
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The Nexus 7 has all the portability of a paperback book, but is connected to the entire digital world of entertainment.
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Digital Equipment and Data General (which inspired a bestselling book called The Soul of a New Machine) got rich selling them.
The next several hours were a blur, in which we published six items on Digital Book World and I wrote one that was published here.
According to Ed Keller, co-author of The Face-to-Face Book: Why Real Relationships Rule in a Digital Marketplace, 90 percent of real-world conversations about brands, products and services happen offline.
But I left off one kind of digital book publishing start-up that I see a tremendous opportunity in.
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