February 12th, 2013

Inkling Takes Dead Aim At Apple And Amazon With New Google Search-Friendly Digital Publishing Tools

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This won’t come as a surprise, but the publishing industry is in trouble. Digital technologies have transformed the publishing landscape — just as they did for music — from the way companies distribute content to how we consume it, and our reading habits are fundamentally changing as a result. Book publishers and traditional booksellers are struggling to stay afloat amidst the rising digital… → Read More

February 11th, 2013

Google Says $80M French Publishers’ Fund Won’t Be Replicated Elsewhere In Europe

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Google is not currently looking to create funds to support digital publishers outside France. Google’s comments follow calls last week by the head of the European Publishers Council for Google to pay media companies across Europe for displaying their content. Earlier this month Mountain View announced a €60m fund to support French publishers but this model won’t be replicated elsewhere in… → Read More

February 14th, 2012

An Answer To Apple: Inkling Creates First Industrial-Grade Publishing Platform For Interactive eBooks

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Inkling Co-founder and CEO Matthew MacInnis tells us that, two years ago, the team set out to build a publishing platform that would redefine digital media, starting with the reinvention of the textbook. But in doing so, they discovered that to reinvent books, they’ve had to go back to ground zero and re-imagine the entire printing process itself. Desktop publishing has been around for decades… → Read More