PW Digital Marketplace
Check out the PW Digital Marketplace, a sponsored listing of digital vendors and their services related to the book business.
Featured Vendor: MagicBox
MagicBox, an award-winning digital publishing platform, serves four million users globally. A SaaS-based, cloud-hosted mobile distribution platform, MagicBox enables publishers and content providers to create, enrich, and deliver their digital content through custom branded web and mobile apps. Learn more about MagicBox Platform.and more.
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Content / e-booksRebind Reimagines Classic Literature with AI Enhancement
The new enhanced e-book platform launched with five titles, including 'Dubliners' and 'The Great Gatsby,' that offer expert video commentary and an AI chatbot users can query. Plans are to publish two new titles per month.
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Content / e-books
Scribd to Launch Credit-Based Model, Expand Big Five Partnerships
Scribd is ending its unlimited model and implementing credit-based subscriptions for its Everand reading platform, offering one title monthly for $11.99 or three for $16.99, and adding bestsellers from all Big Five publishers to an expanded catalog.
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Apps
Goodreads Cofounder Launches Smashing, a Content Curation App
Otis Chandler, cofounder and former CEO of Goodreads, is among those who have launched Smashing, a new reading app that will provide a daily feed of news, podcasts, and social media posts based on users’ interests.
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Content / e-books
Empowering Publishers Through Innovation and Investment at Virtusales
BiblioFlow, a project focused on streamlining assets and metadata through an intuitive UI to increase efficiency and improve user experience, is set to take center stage at Virtusales Publishing Solutions at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
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Content / e-books
Changing the Game for Publishers Big and Small at KNK Software
This year, KNK is celebrating its 10th anniversary in the North American market, and to mark this milestone, the company is giving back to the industry that has been integral to its success.
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Content / e-books
Continuous Expansion and Reimagining of Content Solutions at KGL
In recent months, KnowledgeWorks Global (KGL) has demonstrated a major commitment to the marketplace by enabling publishers to grow their revenue, speed up their workflow, and protect themselves against threats.
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Content / e-books
Plotting the Digital Publishing Course
Digital solutions providers are harnessing technology-driven tools to assist publishers and chart their shared future.
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Content / e-books
Kindle Unlimited Turns 10
Since Amazon's subscription service was launched in 2014, the company says that three billion books have been read via Kindle Unlimited and that it has paid out over $3.5 billion to Kindle Direct Publishing authors.
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Conferences
Audio Publishers Association to Host International Summit in NYC
The International Summit of Audio Publishers, to be held on September 10, will feature speakers from Audible, HarperCollins, Spotify, and Storytel, among others.
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Content / e-books
OverDrive Forms New Content Group
Company officials said that the group will focus on "developing content discovery channels and evolving access models" to provide "the best possible content experience for institutions across the globe."
