Quark announced this month the availability of QuarkXPress 9.2, the new update to QuarkXPress 9 that is free to all QuarkXPress 9 customers. QuarkXPress 9 is award-winning design software that enables millions of creative professionals to publish across digital devices as well as to print and the Web. The best part for authors is that [...]
Publishing Push coming from Apple
January 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Apple could be hosting a special media event in New York City this month. The event won’t be about Apple’s next iPad if reports are believed to be correct. Instead, Apple will be talking directly to the publishing industry. The theme of the event will be publishing and e-books. Considering reports indicate Eddy Cue will [...]
Is $9.99 still the Magic Price for an e-book?
December 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
A Steve Jobs Comic Book
October 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The comic from Bluewater Productions, which was first announced last June, is expected to show the history of Steve Jobs and Apple’s rise to the top of the technological heap. Of course, since the comic was produced before his passing, the paper copy will make no mention of when he passed away. The special eBook version however [...]
Steve Jobs: Do What You Love
October 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
In 2005 Apples founder Steve Jobs gave a powerful commencement speech to the graduating students at prestigious Stanford University. Find the complete text and the video at the link above. “Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because [...]
NY Times Writer analyzes various e-readers
September 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Here is the critical question for us avid readers: Which e-reader or tablet is the best for reading books? “So I set out to try them all, reading a chapter on each: the Amazon Kindle, the first- and second-generation Apple iPads, the Barnes & Noble Nook, an iPhone, a Windows Phone, a Google Android phone, a Google [...]
Thomas Nelson releases their first Enhanced e-book
September 3, 2011 By 1 Comment
Christian publishing firm Thomas Nelson announces the creation of the company’s first enhanced e-book, which released on Aug. 25. This landmark e-book by New York Times best-selling author and pastor Max Lucado features the full digital content of his most recent bestseller, Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions (Thomas Nelson, [...]
War is On! Kindle Cloud Reader to combat Apple iTunes
August 15, 2011 By Leave a Comment
On July 26 of this year, following pressure from Apple that it would begin strenuously enforcing its 30 percent commission rate, Amazon and Barnes & Noble announced they were shutting down their in-app sales. Customers were instead instructed to go to the Internet and buy directly from their respective websites. Amazon just released the new [...]
