The impulse to hand over navigational control to readers in a digital book is considerable.
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Finding the Future of Digital Book Publishing is available DRM-free at the DBW Store.
But along with the iPad, Apple is also launching its own digital book business.
But I left off one kind of digital book publishing start-up that I see a tremendous opportunity in.
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Toronto-based Kobo, the e-reader and digital book company, is one of the first users of Rypple Flow.
And also the digital book business is very important for an e-commerce business.
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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.
Well, if the Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller List is any indication, consumers say one thing and do another.
The Digital Book World E-Book Best-Seller List is powered by Iobyte Solutions, a firm that deals with such data.
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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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By contrast, Amazon's digital book business is largely focused on its Kindle e-reader and Kindle software that runs on some other hardware.
It's no secret that Amazon and other digital book retailers track and store consumer information detailing what books are purchased and read.
Hear executives from Kobo speak in multiple sessions at the upcoming Digital Book World 2013 digital publishing conference in New York.
Its digital book business is booming: as of April, Amazon has sold 105 e-books for every 100 printed books that left its warehouse.
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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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Tesco has acquired Mobcast, the award-winning digital book platform provider, to offer our customers even more choice in how they buy and enjoy books.
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It is clear that the highest growth potential is in digital book sales, but that is also because it is still a new phenomenon.
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.
When I first joined Digital Book World in Oct. 2011, I knew very little about the book publishing industry and almost nothing about ebooks.
And I told them my stories where I came from, what I liked to read, what I hoped for Digital Book World and myself.
For more information on Digital Book World 2013, click here.
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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.
To answer these questions, we at Digital Book World created ebook Publisher Power Rankings, to rank just how well each publisher is doing against the other.
In the ebook ( Finding the Future of Digital Book Publishing), executives talk about training their people to do new things and hiring new kinds of people.
Ms. Rowling kept the digital book rights to her Harry Potter novels and is expected to begin selling Harry Potter e-books on her website Pottermore later this year.
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The digital book includes 20 instructional videos to help you learn how to butcher and make your own bacon, as well as how to make your own pork smoker.
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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Wait for You went on sale in late Feb. and hit the No. 1 spot on the Digital Book World Ebook Best-Seller list on March 10, a first for a self-published book.
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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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