The Spanish book industry in general and the media in particular are focusing almost exclusively on aspects of digitization that have to do with the sale of digital content (e-books). However, there is a wide range of options for using the opportunities offered by technology to support the promotion and sale of more physical books, which currently represent around 98% of the Spanish market, with ebooks currently at only 2%. Read more »

Launched 2 years ago, the FutureBook Innovation awards are the most prestigious awards recognising publishing innovation. Last year we had 218 entries across 8 categories, with extremely high standards and inspiring products and innovation across the board. 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 »

There is always the temptation to cast the biggest player embroiled in an event as the lead player, as the one in charge, in control and closest to winning. Facebook is big, and their dance card is full of content players, but they aren't the belle of the ball, they aren't playing in the content industry let alone winning it, and they certainly aren't in control of the content libraries.

They haven't "quietly given their ¾ of a billion users access to 3 of the worlds largest content libraries, direct to their screens, in a completely device neutral environment." Read more »

Going through the process of turning over 750 blog posts on GAMESbrief into three volumes of edited thoughts has taught me a lot about the difference between the printed word and the online word. Anyone thinking about the transition from physical to digital would do well to understand the differences. Read more »

Pearson's recent announcement of its 'Plug & Play' service has been discussed in various places on the net (including this very site) in usually glowing terms. The talk is all of 'setting content free' and 'embracing open source'. But I think that misses the point. Read more »