Deck the halls with holly, let the bells ring out, a national newspaper has finally written an article about how publishers are being innovative and  driving digital change rather than being driven off the road by 'e'. Read more »

‘To echo what many publishing executives have been saying to us, 2011 will be the year when digital finally takes a significant and measurable share of UK ‘book’ sales.'

Philip Jones’s blog, January 2011 Read more »

Nosy Crow's third app is a departure from its first two, Three Little Pigs and Cinderella, but it is also unmistakeably Nosy Crow in design and quality. Bizzy Bear On the Farm is the publisher's first app developed from an original story and the first that is based on one of its own titles: the Bizzy Bear book series is published by Nosy Crow in the UK and by Candlewick Press in the US. Read more »

Harper Press has recently relaunched the History In An Hour brand. From starting out to the relaunch has been a relatively short amount of time and a very enjoyable journey. It was two years ago, a damp Wednesday morning in September 2009, I wrote the first words of a short book I called World War Two In An Hour. But it was in 1999 that I first had the idea for History In An Hour. Read more »

Australian Digital Publishing has made huge inroads in the last few years and Australian authors can now be purchased from some local and many international sellers like Amazon, Kobo and the iBookstore. Read more »

Ilex Press recently announced the publication of the Pilot issue of Photographer’s i Magazine—a multimedia, interactive magazine app for iPad and Android tablets. Soon to make an appearance on the iPad newsstand, the Pilot issue is currently selling ahead of expectations. Read more »

Faber, Nosy Crow, Dorling Kindersley and Harvill Secker were the winners at the Future Digital Innovation Awards, along with start-ups Bardowl and Unbound. Rebecca Smart, managing director of specialist publisher Osprey, won the the award for "most inspiring digital person". Lonely Planet won "best website". Read more »

What's the mood of FutureBook 2011? There are 550 delegates at the QEII Conference Centre today listening to talks from industry leaders such as Stephen Page, Evan Schnittman, Dominique Raccah, the brilliantly named Chris Book, Anobii's Matteo Berlucchi, and Penguin's Anna Rafferty.

The mood is positive, vibrant and forward thinking; the speakers have been brilliant so far (Stephen 'Don Draper' Page - a particular highlight); and the tweets invariably honest. Even the wi-fi has worked (just about). Read more »

Our first project, Frankenstein is being built using our "inklebook" platform, designed to let non-technical writers make interactive content with the minimum of struggle. One of the questions that's come up a lot since we started showing it to people is - if your technology is aimed at writers, why do you need publishers? Why don't you work with the writers directly? Read more »

"We want music to be like water -- available everywhere, available seamlessly," Spotify CEO and founder Daniel Ek. Read more »