Not exact matches
It
hopes to add more european countries and
publishers, while adding more features to its
app.
The bigger incentive for
publishers like HarperCollins, Weiner says, is to use
apps, direct - to - consumer sales and other digital experiments to build a stronger connection with readers in the
hopes of learning more about them.
Oyster charges $ 9.95 a month for access to more than 100,000 books from big and small
publishers, but it now offers users one free month with the
hope of getting more people to try the
app experience.
Conventions Calvin Reid surveys the comics scene at the Frankfurt Book Fair and comes up with some gems, such as a short interview with NBM
Publisher Terry Nantier about comics he was
hoping to acquire that week, and the news that comiXology is the top iPad book
app in France, and among the top five in several other countries, despite having no foreign - language content.
We
hope other
publishers take a hint and make some decent
apps as well.
It
hopes to entice
publishers to the platform by proposing an easier route to the tablet market without the need to think of different platforms,
app stores and respective commission rates; and users a more convenient, one - stop shop for getting all the publications they like to read.
Initially the
apps and content available to share will be built by NHN, the Korean - headquartered Web - firm that owns Line, and a small selection of
publishers but over time the company
hopes to include content produced by third party developers.