LibreDigital scores $15M second round for eBook distribution
LibreDigital, which you’ve likely never heard of, supplies technology that delivers eBooks from publishers to readers’ gadgets. HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, Wiley, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today are among LibreDigital’s clients, which include six of America’s top 10 book publishers. LibreDigital offers its technology as a service rather than requiring publishers to configure servers and install and maintain software themselves.
The round was led by Triangle Peak Partners, a first-time… Continue Reading
Publishers move to split ebooks into pieces
Ever wondered what happened to the promise of the ebook?
In the ‘90s, when the Internet took hold in a big way, publishers half-heartedly looked to ebooks — electronic versions books as a way to boost sales.
The efforts generally failed, due to poor reading devices, customer reluctance to pay full retail prices for digital versions, and overly cumbersome DRM and competing document standards that restricted ebook portability from one reading device to another.
Even today, while… Continue Reading
Live Ink offers better way to read text online
Did you know our primitive brains weren’t wired very well to read this paragraph?
Scientific research conducted by Walker Reading Technologies, a small Minnesota startup that has been studying our ability to read for the last ten years, has concluded that the natural field of focus for our eyes is circular, so our eyes view the printed page as if we’re peering through a straw.
And a very bad-behaving straw at that, because not only… Continue Reading