Cooler Heads Prevail: Audible and major publishers settle lawsuit over Audible Captions
In an interesting turn of events, Audible and a number of major publishers and publishing interests have settled their ongoing legal dispute over Audible Captions, the new feature for Audible which provides live transcriptions of audiobooks, two-to-three sentences at a time, accompanying the audio. The good news is that this avoids a protracted legal dispute. This was far from an open-and-shut case for publishers and would have been hard to predict what the courts would have
Castlingo: a great tool for publishers to create Alexa skills with zero code
Thanks to our partner Witlingo, a company based in the DC area which develops voice experiences for brands, Digital Book World has access to a new service called Castlingo. This service makes it easier than it has ever been before for publishers and content creators to create their own Alexa skill, without knowing any code whatsoever. Compliments of a special arrangement lasting through December 8, Castlingo is available for FREE. You can use it to create an Alexa skill right
Readercoin: If You Haven't Heard Of It, You Soon Will
Digital Book World 2018, this fall in Nashville (October 2-4; Music City Center) will feature 70-80 companies exhibiting on the DBW 2018 Exhibit Hall floor. One of those companies is Readercoin, a company which AS A FULL DISCLAIMER I was asked earlier this year to serve as a member of their Advisory Board. This is a rarity for me, I don't seek out things like this nor do I normally accept them. I said yes to supporting them in this way, because it is obvious they have a novel
