This week has been a roller-coaster week for anyone who’s in the publishing and book industry.  Apple started out the week unveiling it’s new subscription service Tuesday allowing publishers to sell subscriptions on a weekly, monthly, yearly, or other period of time, instead of selling each issue separately like a newsstand in addition to other [...]

As some of you are aware, Google eBooks (aka Google Editions) debuted early last week and I wanted to learn more about it from a business standpoint as well as from a development standpoint.
The main core offering of Google eBooks is to allow a reader to be able to read and purchase digital books from [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]