http://tzmartin.com Design, Development and Entrepreneurship Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:09:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...In effect, Macmillan is trying to do exactly the same thing that many other media companies are desperate to do — from newspapers to music labels to movie companies — which is to replicate the pricing model of an analog, real-world business in digital form. ... http://tzmartin.com/disruption-ebooks-the-end-of-windowing-and-the-agency-model/2010-03-03 Looking to turn its e-publishing expertise into a new business, O'Reilly Media is launching O'Reilly Digital Distribution, a new division offering publishers a complete e-book publishing service. Starting with text conversion, O'Reilly Digital Distribution can output files in any format for any device ... http://tzmartin.com/syndication-oreilly-digital-distribution-debuts-odd-at-toc/2010-02-24 "Sourcebooks spends $3-$7K on each iPhone app, and does all development in-house (except coding)." via twitter.com/iforland (http://bit.ly/cuUMRM) Posted via email from Digital Publishing Trends - Semantic Press http://tzmartin.com/market-sourcebooks-publisher-spends-3-7k-on-each-iphone-app/2010-02-23 KiwiTech is a mobile app services firm and was established in January 2009 in Washington DC by the founders of Aptara (formerly TechBooks). We are now starting up our offices in Noida (Sector 4) and are working with a variety of European clients, including Spanish publishers. Our services include developing ... http://tzmartin.com/kiwitech-mobile-apps-for-ebook-publishers/2010-02-19 Elizabeth Weiss: "Look, this is nothing less than a revolution. This is going from an analogue world to a digital world. To think that we will reinvent ourselves once and that will be that would be an illusion, this is going to happen many, many times and ... http://tzmartin.com/validation-book-publishers-warned-to-get-moving-on-the-digital-revolution/2010-02-19 PubFactory is a digital publishing platform that emerges from iFactory’s many years of solving their clients’ pressing Web publishing demands, alongside iFactory’s habit of throwing in a few extra-demanding capabilities of their own.  They’ve taken what they’ve figured out and rationalized the process ... http://tzmartin.com/competition-pubfactory-digital-publishing-platform/2010-02-18 Gilbane-Beacon-DigitalMarketing-Nstein-11-09.pdf (573 KB)View this on posterousFrom the introduction:". . .  Internet marketing will increase at the expense of traditional advertising, which is predicted to decline. This means that digital marketers will clearly be challenged to bring in the lion’s share of new customers and revenues. . . .  "Gilbane believes ... http://tzmartin.com/report-lessons-for-digital-marketers-what-marketing-professionals-can-learn-from-the-worlds-leading-publishers/2010-02-18 Gilbane-Beyond-eBook-May-09.pdf (2412 KB)View this on posterousBy Steve Paxhia & Bill TrippeSource: http://gilbane.com Posted via email from Digital Publishing Trends - Semantic Press http://tzmartin.com/report-digital-platforms-and-technologies-for-publishers-implementations-beyond-ebook/2010-02-18 The NBC Olympics iPhone app is a well thought out application that combines schedule information, news, highlights, scores and has social integration with push notification.  With all the features packed in, you can easily see how this app can complement your Winter Olympic experience.   It's also good example of what ... http://tzmartin.com/building-conference-iphone-app/2010-02-15 It's rare to get a glimpse at the financial numbers behind tech start-ups; especially, if they are VC-funded with a total $25m raised over the past few years. Evernote's CEO Phil Libin exchanged an email dialogue with Tod Sattersten, in a recent interview, which provides a peek at their math ... http://tzmartin.com/the-math-on-evernote/2010-02-07