Category: Smartphones & Tablets
Which Screen? Why The Atlantic’s “The End of Reading” Measures the Wrong Thing
The Atlantic blames shrinking attention spans for reading’s decline. The research it cites measured office multitasking, not books – and today’s bestsellers are longer than ever.
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Asia Foundation launches Let’s Read Project in Myanmar
Let’s Read is an initiative by the Asia Foundation to bring the joy of reading to children across...
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Publish MENA – the digital advantage #3 is now available
The joint StreetLib-TNPS bi-weekly newsletter Publish MENA – the digital...
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Celebrating its first anniversary, Singapore’s mobile reading app Dreame is another example of the millions of invisible global digital readers outside mainstream publishing
“Show Your Girl Power” is the topic of to a writing competition to mark the successful...
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80 million invisible booklovers redux. Wattpad partners with global streaming service Viu to develop Wattpad stories as Viu original content
Operating in 17 markets – Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, Philippines,...
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Wattpad’s 80 million users are part of the invisible and untapped global digital-first readership many publishers are oblivious to
Several industry reports carry the Wattpad press release announcing the Toronto-based company has...
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With the “attention economy” the latest buzzword excuse for perceived falling book sales, how is it Scandinavia is seeing both video and book streaming rise simultaneously?
The rise and rise of audiobook and ebook subscription streaming across the Scandinavian countries...
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Lady Victoria Howard brings elegant erotica to smartphones, chapter by chapter, with a laser focus and global ambitions
Launched last month by LVH Group, a new mobile reading app has taken an unsuspecting world by...
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Publishers stand to lose sales worth $46,000 per day thanks to poor search abilities of smartspeakers
For a while it seemed like smartspeakers were the new black of digital audio, driving sales ever...
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Myanmar telco Ooredoo to boost country's digital libraries
Myanmar, with a population of 53 million, may be at only 33% internet penetration, but that’s...
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India’s “culture revolution.” 200 literature festivals a year as the Indian Renaissance booms
“A culture revolution is sweeping through urban India,” runs a headline in India New England this...
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ADIBF PAY app sets the scene for a digital books explosion in the Arab markets
Digital debates are nothing new at the Arab book fairs, but 2018 may prove the tipping point in...
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