Newsweek redesigns website, moves to Amazon cloud
To cut back on expenditures, Newsweek is making some changes to the way its website is hosted. MediaWeek reports that the magazine is ceasing to host its own website, instead moving to the...
View ArticleiPhone/iPad e-book app review: iSilo
If you’re wondering whether the iSilo reader (v5.17) for the iPhone and iPad is worth the hefty $9.99 cost, the answer depends on whether you’re within its target audience. If you need to mirror web...
View ArticleDigital Book World is back online
The Digital Book World website has been down since at least 9:00 am EST this morning, for reasons unknown even to its editorial staff, from what we understand. But DBW’s IT team has been hard at work...
View ArticleWant to Compare E-Readers? Try Reader Rocket
Buying an e-reader has become more complex, with several solid options, both in E Ink and tablet-like lines. So how do you choose? That’s where a brand-new, just-launched-yesterday website called...
View ArticlePottermore’s Winning Digital Publishing Strategy
Futurebook is reporting that Pottermore, JK Rowling’s portal for all things Harry Potter, was a big winner at The Bookseller Industry Awards. As author Philip Jones explains, the thrust of the message...
View ArticleSocial Site BookLikes is Now Open for Business
BookLikes has been in beta version for quite some time, but the website has now launched its full release. The site seems to combine different aspects of social media sites such as Tumblr and Goodreads...
View ArticleBookLikes, a New Social Reading Platform: Do we really need another?
DBW featured a press release for BookLikes, a new social reading platform that is supposed to combine the features of Tumblr and Goodreads. I consider one of my roles here is to involve trying things...
View ArticleNew Dylan Thomas Centenary website goes live
As a prelude to the start in November of Dylan Thomas 100, the centenary year of the great Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas (another of those classic writers whose in-between copyright status...
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