via scribblelive.com Главное — работа над созданием интерактивного журнала занимает на 10–50% больше времени. Кажется, на это пойдут только серьёзные издания. Или стартапы.

Welcome to the Directory of Open Access Journals. This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 4819 journals in the directory. Currently 1938 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 368470 articles are included in the DOAJ service. via doaj.org

The New York Times is planning to offer its Book Review as a separate digital e-reader product, disaggregated from the rest of the Times content on the mobile devices, according to James Dunn, director of marketing for The New York Times. Dunn alluded to the plan during an afternoon session at the Digital Publishing Alliance (DPA) and E-Reader Symposium at the University of Missouri’s Reynolds Journalism Institute. Following the session, Dunn spoke briefly with Poynter’s Bill Mitchell and provided additional details.

And you can add free ePub titles to iTunes and sync them to the iBooks app on your iPad. via apple.com Apple пустит в свою программу iBooks и другие книжки в формате EPUB. Одним вопросом меньше.

In next 5 years magazine industry will loose 35% of its revenue but by 2020 the industry will recover because of digital delivery. By then industry will be changed completely and will be 58% digital, as opposed to 10% now. Digital will overtake magazine print by 2016 and this will make it easier to enter the market. Book industry will continue to grow slowly through 2020. Digital will grow 36% in 2014 and end up at 60% by 2020.

Expect prices to drop to $50 by 2020. Color display technology development will be especially important and will replace black and white displays by 2015 and by 2020 95% of all displays will be color. Flexible displays will replace rigid displays and will allow the reader to be rolled or folded. Will fall into 3 categories: rigid displays; bendable displays, which will be seen this year; rollable and foldable displays, and will take 7% of the market by 2020.

According to Lagardere, e-book sales in December in the U.S. were $5 million, a total that surpassed e-book sales for all of 2008. E-book sales represented 3% of full year sales at HBG USA in 2009. via publishersweekly.com За месяц как за весь предыдущий год. 3%

Nearly 90% of commmercial academic publishers have seen growth in e-book sales over the past two years, according to a cross-sector survey released today (10th March) by the Association of Learned Professional and Scholarly Publishers. Growth in some cases was more than 1,000%, with e-book sales now almost 10% of total book sales of the publishers surveyed. via thebookseller.com Любопытная статистика по научным и университетским издательствам в Англии. Кажется, здесь экспансия электронных книг идёт быстрее, чем в остальных сеткорах рынка.

Pixel Qi will offer DIY kits towards the end of Q2. Yeah, you’ll be able to turn your laptop/netbook display into a Pixel Qi display yourself! They say it’s rather easy: “It’s only slightly more difficult than changing a lightbuld: it’s basically 6 screws, pulling off a bezel, unconnecting the old screen and plugging this one in. That’s it. It’s a 5 minute operation”. via e-ink-info.com Забавный способ продвижения.

via pcpro.co.uk Вы их читаете, а они следят за тем, как вы это делаете и меняются в зависимости от этого. Via Buzz by Max Nemtsov