Experimenting with new business models in epubs:
"For the first time, customers can subscribe to unlimited reading of as many as 32 titles from five different publishers through one app, with one user interface, at one price."
The number of tech titles available on Kindle gets a big bump. But the market is still broken in many respects. Read about the difficulties in formatting for Kindle and the inability to get publisher updates through Amazon (or Apple for EPUB books).
Monday, February 16, Adobe unveiled its new Adobe Reader Mobile 9 SDK (Software Development Kit), which will enable companies to more easily distribute and display ebooks in PDF and EPUB formats on mobile phones, ereaders and other mobile devices.
While we’re in a time where digitizing for epub is an extra step, not a simple alternative output of an XML-based pre-press process, the ebook seems freighted with extra costs
This has more to do with last night's class than the epub class, but I thought this tiny tidbit was interesting considering one of the last things we heard last night was about the demise of a verification process.