Today marks the launch of games developer Rovio's first push into book publishing. The Angry Birds cookbook entitled Bad Piggies' Egg Recipes is the first step in a wider strategy to expand the Angry Birds brand into publishing, licensing, and animation. Read more »

Many thanks to Stephen for responding so openly to our Twitter crowdsourced Q&A. Read more »

We have had an amazing number of entries to our innovation awards - 218 in total. The most entries were in the best app category with 76. We decided to break this category into the 3 sub-categories of children's, adult and reference/non-trade. Delighted to announce the shortlists across all categories are:

Best adult app shortlist

Top 100 Albums, Amber Books

The Para Fitness Guide, Osprey Publishing

The Power of Six Booktrack Edition, Booktrack Read more »

I was fortunate enough to attend HarperCollins' Digi-Fest, the publisher's internal digital conference that was all about spreading the message of digital to the troops on the Fulham Palace Road. Harper chief Victoria Barnsley set the tone for the half-day event saying how digital was now part of the publisher's everyday reality. "We are already living in the digital present, it is no longer the future. We've stil got a big challenge to make it embed in everyone's lives, and everyone here needs to embrace digital." Read more »

A few of you requested the full list of entries to the FutureBook app award. Well here it is, in no particular order. As you will see it is impossible for us to shortlist this number so we are splitting this category into three areas - Kids, Adult, Reference/Non-trade. So there will be 3 awards in this category. Be interested to know how many you're familiar with and which ones excite you. Enjoy: Read more »

Nosy Crow's Cinderella app has just won the iLounge iPad Kids App of the Year. It's a great achievement for a small publisher operating in a new field, and particularly pleasing since it gives me an excuse to talk about  an app that I've rudely neglected for two months. Read more »

App review: The Doctor Who Encyclopedia (BBC Books and Brandwidth; iPad only)

The wheezing, groaning TARDIS take-off sound that greets the user on launching this app bodes well for its contents, and the Doctor Who Encyclopedia doesn’t disappoint. Read more »

I spent an enjoyable hour over the weekend geeking out over our FutureBook awards entries. If you are excited by what's going on in publishing (which I'm assuming you are if you visit this blog), then I'm happy to report the industry is alive and well. Read more »

We are delighted to announce that Stephen Page, CEO of Faber and Faber will be talking at the FutureBook conference. He will discuss his vision for a modern day publisher and how you drive change within an organisation. Stephen joins Evan Schnittman and Dominique Raccah on our keynote session. Read more »

 In March this year, FutureBook presented the first ever awards for 'digital innovation' across publishing. We had 93 entries from all around the world. Building on this success we are announcing the next phase of these awards.

You can enter 1 or more of the 6 categories. Categories have changed slightly since last time to reflect rapid change in the industry.  Read more »