We’re very pleased to announce the release of a landmark iPhone app – the Peter James app, featuring the DS Roy Grace series of crime novels.
Download the press release:
Press release: Peter James iPhone app
Peter James iPhone app
on 7 December, 2009 – 11:15 am
Posted in General
The Third Player
on 10 November, 2009 – 5:21 pm
Posted in General, Reading devices
When we think of the Big Three West Coast tech firms poised to change publishing, we think Amazon, Apple and Google. Between them they embody a shift in discovery, distribution and hardware in reading and typify a move away from the traditional centres of the book world, in favour of more new media-native presences.
Kindle currently [...]
Hitchhiker’s Press Release
on 6 October, 2009 – 12:57 pm
Posted in Publishing, mobile
Click on the link below to see our official press release for the Hitchhiker Apps:
hitchhikers-on-the-iphone-press-release
Ask and Ye Shall Receive
on 27 April, 2009 – 8:35 pm
Posted in General, Publishing, Reading devices, mobile
A little bit ago I wrote a kind of iPhone app wishlist for independent publishers. Well, it looks like Indiebound made good on their promise. Their new iPhone app (in the U.S.) is the exact right step booksellers should be taking. For more on the genesis of the project, here’s a great overview at Follow [...]
A Bookish Experiment
on 14 April, 2009 – 4:18 pm
Posted in Reading devices, eBooks
A while ago you may remember Book Camp, a day of bookish experimentation. On the back of that I’ve been thinking of a bookish experiment and was wondering if it’s been done.
We are seeing a proliferation of reading formats- from grand, Royal hardbacks to reading on the Nintendo DS. Each of these has a different [...]
How to Get Indies in on the iPhone Game
on 24 March, 2009 – 12:04 pm
Posted in General, Publishing, eBooks, mobile
Hello everyone, Ryan again from New York. I hope this entry’s not too U.S.-centric! I know little about the UK scene, so who knows if this applies on both sides of the Atlantic.
After reading Adam Hodgkin’s take on the Google/Amazon/Apple ebook shakeout (and Mike Shatzkin’s response), I thought about what’s lost here: Browse. The Kindle, the [...]
Highlights of 2008
on 22 December, 2008 – 4:51 pm
Posted in General
With roughly a day and half of 2008 office time to go, thoughts inevitably turn to the year that was. Despite the near unbearable profusion of phatic and irritating “best of [insert year]” lists it seems worthwhile highlighting some of the, um, highlights from 2008 as this really was the year things kicked off for [...]
Pan, Stanza and the iPhone
on 24 November, 2008 – 4:43 pm
Posted in General, Reading devices
We’re very excited that from today, if you have downloaded Stanza on your iPhone, you’ll be able to read excerpts of some of our titles on the iPhone. We’ve forged a partnership with Lexcycle, the creators of Stanza (which has half a million downloads). What’s more because the full version of these titles are available [...]
Tethered Reading
on 17 July, 2008 – 3:10 pm
Posted in Copyright, Reading devices, eBooks
The recent noise about the iPhone highlights a trend recently discussed by Jonathan Zittrain in his book The Future of the Internet; namely how “generative” IT platforms are giving way to closed “tethered” appliances. The iPhone is such a device, in that it is ultimately policed by Apple and is capable of being controlled [...]
Work in progress
on 15 July, 2008 – 3:21 pm
Posted in General, Reading devices, eBooks
The blogosphere has been buzzing since the App Store launched over last weekend with comments about ‘dozy publishers’ who have missed a great opportunity to make their books available on the iPhone. But apart from a few digital PR points scored against competing publishers, there doesn’t seem to me to be any huge value in [...]
