by John Jerney | Mar 5, 2014 | Discover
San Francisco-based Ownshelf has created a new social network service for sharing DRM-free ebooks, and is raising money to expand to mobile platforms. Ownshelf App for sharing eBooks with friends across devices ePublish Yourself Intelligence In brief: Ownshelf.com,...
by Lee Purcell | Jan 10, 2014 | Discover
On the great timeline of human events and inventions, ePublishing is yet a sliver among epochs. The history of the printing press goes back hundreds of years and the span of human communication and evolution of writing and language development encompasses thousands of...
by Lee Purcell | Jan 3, 2014 | Discover
Big Six publisher Hachette has made its entire catalog of 5,000 ebooks available to US public and school libraries, a step that could foreshadow a broader move by other publishers to work more closely with libraries to harmonize the handling of print and ebook...
by Lee Purcell | Jun 9, 2013 | Discover
Despite the substantial threats posed by global climate disruption, the realities and risks really haven’t sunk in for many people. Even though there is a very real possibility that the world may become uninhabitable for humans within a century or so, in general...
by Lee Purcell | Apr 15, 2012 | Discover
In one of the most anticipated moments in the short history of ebooks and epublishing, Pottermore—an online community based on the imaginative fantasies of J.K. Rowling—has gone live. To the kids (and more than a few adults) who have emotional investments in the...
by Lee Purcell | Mar 29, 2012 | Discover
Unlike most countries in the world, the U.S. has a particular affinity toward excess paper consumption. As a nation that began with vast acres of forest, we have always consumed timber resources with a reckless sense of abandon. The idea that trees are a renewable...
