Not exact matches
The advent of Facebook's Instant Articles, where
publishers will now host their content directly on Facebook rather than on their
own websites, and Google following suite with its Accelerated
Mobile Pages project are both dangerous new developments, he says.
Some
publishers, like Baen Books, do not use Amazon for e-books, and «force» consumers to buy electronic books exclusively through their
own website, and then upload their books into your
mobile device by hand.
Comic book
publishers — including Marvel Comics — have found great success selling a la carte digital issues, most notably from the Comixology
mobile app, as well as via Marvel Comics's
own app.
While
mobile web apps have become very popular, basic digital editions (digital replicas of print publications) have always held their
own and are becoming increasingly popular as a moderately priced solution for digital
publishers.
Now nyone who wants to buy a digital comic book from Marvel or DC must use either Comixology's line of
mobile apps (iOS, Android, Kindle Fire) or go through the
publisher's
own digital store.
The comic - book app's success in the App Store is especially impressive given all of the successful
mobile iOS apps on the market today that have with their
own in - app purchases, from games to magazine
publishers and beyond.
While much of this is set to change with the newly - announced EPUB 3 and Kindle Format 8 (KF8), both based on the richly - featured HTML5 and CSS3 standards, some
publishers have chosen to, in effect, create their
own ereaders in the form of
mobile applications.
It's indisputable: all authors and small
publishers must have their
own mobile - friendly, professional looking author website.
«They were abandoning consoles for
mobile and free - to - play, and the
publishers were investing in their
own internal teams and not coming to studios like us.
«Creative England's funding assistance will help Playrise remain an independent developer and
publisher of our
own games as we transition from a
mobile developer to a fully - fledged cross-platform developer.
Ninja Kiwi is a privately
owned, Auckland - based developer and
publisher of web and
mobile games.
MoPub will continue to work with multiple
publishers under its new owner, opening up the possibilities of how Twitter intends to grow its
own position in the world of
mobile advertising.)
But the only iOS
publisher with two titles in the top five is Pocket Gems, which believes it can hold its
own by being a purely
mobile - focused player with an eye on long - term quality and user retention.
While some
publishers have jumped into the one - stop comics marketplaces like Comixology, others have also put up their
own gated digital storefronts, such as Dark Horse Comics»
mobile app (Android, iOS), which functions as comics marketplace, download manager, and comics reader all rolled up into a single package.