by Jeffery Battersby | Dec 7, 2011 | Commentary, Featured
Justin Williams continues his thoughts on the state of magazine publishing on iOS. He nails it and points, once again, at the best example of how it should be done: Flipboard. By the way, if you haven’t used Justin’s Elements as a text editor on your iOS...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 3, 2011 | Asides
John Gruber recently posted a link to an article on Novelr about Amanda Hocking, a 26-year-old writer from Austin, MN who has no book deal with any major publisher but who is selling the living daylights out of her e-books on Amazon.com. She’s selling something...
by Jeffery Battersby | Jul 27, 2010 | Asides
Amazon Snags Exclusive Deal For E-Editions | via NPR Interesting news in the publishing world today as The Wylie Agency have determined to take some of their backlist and publish them as e-books on their own, meaning that they’re bypassing the book publishers....
by Jeffery Battersby | May 27, 2010 | Asides, iPad
Today’s edition of Outside Online, the web version of one of my favorite mags, offers up a list of some of the best STate Parks in the country. Mind you, some of these State parks are also recognized Nationally as well. I’m happy to note that one of my...
by Jeffery Battersby | Mar 19, 2010 | Asides
Apple Races to Strike Content Deals Ahead of iPad Release | via WSJ.com and @craigmod Some publishers and TV executives are concerned the iPad doesn’t support Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash video technology, which many publishers use to showcase their...