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Preserving electronic publications

EPUB - Electronic Publications

I found myself sitting in the classics library of one of Perth’s beautiful private colleges the other day… staring at the 1875 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Taking a volume off the shelf and flipping through the fragile and slightly yellowish pages brought about a feeling of nostalgia… I couldn’t help but wonder how 135 […]

WoodWing World Tour – Tablet Publishing

Woodwing Event Review

Today’s WoodWing World Tour in Sydney, featuring Tablet Publishing was simply inspiring. Hans Janssen (CEO WoodWing Software) opened with his keynote “Best of Times!”, giving us a peak into WoodWing’s history,  strategy and tablet trending, that really indicated to the audience that tablet publishing = opportunity. We saw the world premiere of the WoodWing promo […]

Moving newspapers to digital and paid content

Tech News Worldwide

Mark Colvin (ABC – the Full Story), interviews Richard Freudenstein, chief executive of News Digital Media and The Australian, and talks about News Corp’s move towards paid online content [audio | transcript] … “Price for overall package not yet known, but the Apps will be priced at $7.99”.  Freudenstein thinks  “there is a lot of […]