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Five Years After the First Kindle, Amazon Girds for the Digital Fight
Five years ago today— Amazon (AMZN) Chief Executive Jeff Bezos appeared before a group of journalists and publishing executives at the W Hotel in lower Manhattan to introduce something completely unexpected from a company widely thought of at the time as an online retailer: an electronic reading device. Oddly shaped, with a sluggish black-and-white screen … Continue reading
Data Points: Taking the Tablet Temp
When the tablet market launched two years ago, it was a decidedly luxury buy. Since then, tablets have become more of a mainstream purchase, as the Apple iPad has dropped in price and less costly Android-based tablets and the Amazon Kindle Fire have come on the market. Apple still has the leadership position, but its … Continue reading
Info: Cut in E-Book Pricing by Amazon Is Set to Shake Rivals
By DAVID STREITFELD Published: April 11, 2012 The government’s decision to pursue major publishers on antitrust charges has put the Internet retailer Amazon in a powerful position: the nation’s largest bookseller may now get to decide how much an e-book will cost, and the book world is quaking over the potential consequences. As soon as … Continue reading
10 steps to better legibility for body copy
Newspaper typefaces require a higher legibility then typefaces used for other printed products. Newspaper are printed on a paper of lesser quality under high speed. 1. Great newspaper body copy typeface. Serif typeface is easier to read then sans serif font. 2. The right size. Don’t go under 9 pt. As a basic rule this … Continue reading
Beginning of the end for the traditional book and newspaper publisher?
The new Kindle Fire, self publishing tools from Amazon and the similar product from Apple http://inewsdesign.com/2012/01/20/apple-school-should-center-on-the-ipad/, is this the beginning of the end for the traditional publisher? For the publishing world it is, actually, a beginning and just one fraction of presenting content to the readers. Social media and their role in the publishing … Continue reading
