The Alliance for Independent Authors allies with Digital Book World 2018
Digital Book World 2018 Announces Partnership With the Alliance of Independent Authors (ALLi)
The Alliance of Independent Authors ("ALLi") is the world's pre-eminent association for self-publishing, a non-profit with thousands of members and a reach of hundreds of thousands of authors worldwide. Today, ALLi joins forces with Digital Book World 2018 to ensure authors have a place at the event that has been called "The Super Bowl of Publishing." Digital Book World 2018 (Octobe
Google's "Talk To Books" Might Have Just Changed Everything
Digital Book World took a field trip to London Book Fair last week, just as we'll do with the Frankfurt Book Fair which is after DBW 2018, also in October...only to discover arguably the most important news in publishing last week happened right here in the United States. Last Friday, Google unveiled "Talk To Books," a new tool which uses semantic search - search based on meaning, rather than mere keywords, and powered by the same Google conversational AI used to implement 's
New Wiley / Lumina Datamatics partnership highlights importance of rights management to modern publi
It's not enough with modern publishing efforts to provide tools for creating content. For many, providing rights clearance and ecosystem-wide protection against piracy is increasingly essential. Back in 2011, Steve Jobs and Apple correctly surmised that textbooks were in dire need of disruption, and in early 2012 (after Jobs had passed away), Apple rolled out iBooks Author as the solution which could be used by educators to create digital textbooks. One of the critical reason
