Macmillan Children’s Books has recently launched a new kind of picture book. From the legendary Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler duo, Room on the Broom is a picture book in the old fashioned sense but also a fully interactive experience.
Bundled with the book is a cd that includes an animated version of the story, games, [...]
Room on the Broom Interactive ebook
on 26 October, 2009 – 12:30 pm
Posted in Development, General
Don’t Write Off Ereaders Just Yet
on 10 March, 2009 – 4:36 pm
Posted in Reading devices
This picture, taken at the R&D labs of the New York Times (featured on the TOC blog), seems to be saying that far from reading devices going away, they are now on an unstoppable trajectory: investment, diversification, rapid innovation, everything is there.
Yet in many ways, other than the blip that was the Kindle 2.0 launch, [...]
lifting the veil – will you take a peek?
on 3 October, 2008 – 12:41 pm
Posted in General
Perhaps you’ve heard of a book called Cliffhanger by T.J. Middleton? No?
Well, you can read more about it on panmacmillan.com – then come right back!
Cliffhanger is published today, and it’s great fun – I did homage to the spirit of the book by reading it on or near the best coastal cliff I could [...]
Free and fabulous
on 16 September, 2008 – 2:59 pm
Posted in eBooks
It seems that we are beginning to trip over increasingly enlightened authors on the digital frontiers here at Pan Macmillan. Just as we are poised to publish the the seventh novel in David Hewson’s beguilingly atmospheric and addictive Rome series, Dante’s Numbers, David has shrewdly agreed to an experiment to give away the first of [...]
Notes in the margin of an eBook?
on 7 April, 2008 – 10:32 am
Posted in eBooks
In parallel with the publication of the paperback, Clive James’s ‘intellectual autobiography’, Cultural Amnesia, is also being published as the first in our series of ‘special edition’ eBooks, featuring extra material not available in the print version and including a specially written foreword by Clive James.
We’re offering this eBook DRM-free; this is a deliberate choice [...]
