Aug 25, 2019 | Digital Transformation
The textbook is a very, very reliable medium to educate students and to facilitate the distribution of content to students.
Jul 28, 2019 | Digital Transformation, News
Available editions of the Mueller Report failed the accessibility test for the visually-impaired. So Thad McIlroy and Bill Kasdorf went to work making a fully accessible, freely available edition
Dec 16, 2018 | Digital Transformation
The storyline in trade book publishing for much of this decade has followed the shifting answers to a single question: Is print dead?
Apr 8, 2018 | Digital Transformation, News
Facing the daunting challenge of digital transformation requires a publisher to rely as much on redefining and reimagining the experiences of customers, employees, and other stakeholders as on the underlying solution.
Sep 24, 2017 | Digital Transformation
“Your smartphone likes message-based information. It doesn’t handle long, endless scrolling of data very well. So, the first thing we looked at is how do we disaggregate information and then put it back together?”
Jun 4, 2017 | Digital Transformation, International
E-books are so much more than yet another format and edition of printed books.
Feb 28, 2016 | Digital Transformation
New technologies engage the human mind in many ways. Depending on one’s perspective, the latest gadget is either a miracle or a menace. Michael Greer, who teaches the online course The Technology of the Book: Past, Present, and Future for the University of...
Oct 11, 2015 | Digital Transformation
Let’s face it, says Rüdiger Wischenbart, not one prediction about the future direction of eBooks has been proven right, no matter where you look around the world. According to the Vienna-based publishing consultant and author of the annual Global eBook Report, the...
Sep 27, 2015 | Digital Transformation
The era of the “sharing economy” is upon us. From Uber to AirBnb and Snapgoods to Taskrabbit, web-based companies can now match service providers to their customers easily and directly. For the taxi and hotel industries, the result is unprecedented and unforeseen...
Feb 1, 2015 | Digital Transformation, News
It wasn’t so long ago that ‘mobile’ meant the kind of kinetic sculpture that artist Alexander Calder made his trademark. In 2015, of course, ‘mobile’ is shorthand for a host of handheld wireless technologies that make it possible to live our lives in two worlds...
