I’ve often remarked to our team on how quickly things have changed in the short time we’ve been managing the eBook program at Tyndale. When we began, Sony was the major player trying to reinvent the eBook market (Palm was our largest distributor at the time!). Then Amazon introduced the Kindle and has [...]

Apple introduced their newest device, the iPad, to much fanfare yesterday.  I was surprised to hear the mixed bag of reviews. Everyone seemed unanimous that the iPad looks cool and that it will be a quality device (Apple doesn’t make junk), but there was also a strong amount of skepticism on whether the [...]

Publisher’s Weekly recently published an article stating that the industry is losing $3 billion to book piracy. I found it interesting that the only source for the article was Attributor, a company specializing in selling anti-piracy services. As a matter of fact, I had spoken with their aggressive sales team several months earlier.
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The digital publishing landscape is a very emotional place right now. There are lots of predictions, advice, and anecdotal information available. But there isn’t a whole lot of concrete data to support all the assertions out there.
With that conundrum in mind, we conducted a number of free promotions with our digital distributors. [...]

I came upon an interesting post at the if:book web site that was celebrating the release of the laser disc back in 1984. Looking back, the fascinating thing is how Criterion developed their logo to represent a book turning into a disc. This was to represent the kind of instant functionality and navigation [...]

Recently, there have been a wide variety of posts on the web indicating the need to delay the release of eBooks so that the hardcover can have its moment with the consumer. I’ve heard both sides of the argument and tend to side with Seth Godin’s perspective that this is wrong-headed thinking.
If publishers delay [...]

I am excited about the release of Barnes and Noble’s new eReader device because I believe it represents the next stage in eReader development. Unlike the Kindle, The Nook includes a color navigation touch screen. Its current use is only for navigation, but I believe the potential is there to view video and other forms [...]

For those of us in digital publishing at Tyndale House, the creation of a blog to discuss what we’re doing in the area of web development, digital publishing, and social media has been a dream for some time.  All of us are busy working separately in our own areas, (often with very little time to [...]

Digital Publishing is taking off at a feverish pace. It appears that the launch and success of the Kindle has become a tipping point for consumer acceptance and a harbinger to a plethora of new devices entering the market. Along with this technology boom is the spate of predictions and advice to both consumers and [...]