When will Kindles become free?

When you hear the term “loss leader” you think of grocery stores and discount warehouse chains. You don’t think about technology or publishing. Until now. Amazon recently announced price cuts on its Kindle Fire Tablets. The lowest priced model was slashed …

Top 3 problems with tablets in the classroom

by Beth Bacon One million iPads. That’s the number of tablets Apple sold to schools and colleges in the year before the current school year. It’s roughly double the number sold in the education market during the previous year. In …

Apple Unveils New, Smaller iPad, New iBooks; Will It Change the E-Book World?

Apple’s latest gizmo is something no one expected just over a year ago and could change the publishing industry. The iPad Mini is 0.68 lbs and has a 7.9 inch screen and will start at $329 for the 16-gigabyte, WiFi-only version. A 32GB version will cost $429 and a 64GB version will cost $529. The device will ship to consumers on Nov. 2 with pre-orders starting on Oct. 26.

Skate to Where the Book is Going

Taking a page out of the great Wayne Gretzky’s book, we, as book publishers, shouldn’t be asking whether print or digital is the route… the question for us is if we’re going to skate to where the book is going …

What’s Going on in the Mexican E-Book Market?

So much of the “future of publishing” and “future of ebooks” discussion seems to me, as a long-time resident of the third world, to have a US/UK slant that might be valid and progressive, but can ignore unsung realities in …

DBW Weekly Roundup: 2/25/11

The most interesting news, commentary and tweets related to publishing that you may have missed, from all over the digital book world.

JFK: 50 Days – Building an App

By Peter Costanzo | “The structure of the ’50 days’ concept helped keep us focused since there was so much archival footage to watch.”