All Articles Tagged "digital publishing"
Black Publisher Steps Out on Her Own
(Publisher’s Weekly) — Launched in January as an independent digital venture headed by Karen Hunter, publisher of the Simon & Schuster imprint Karen Hunter Publishing, First One Digital Publishing is an ambitious digital-first venture looking to create a new model for book publishing. Focused on releasing a list of fiction and nonfiction written by both veteran and emerging authors, First One Digital Publishing has released 11 e-books so far as it gears up for a new set of e-book releases and the launch of a major marketing and promotional compaign for its titles. A Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, bestselling author and publisher, Hunter has authored and coauthored more than a dozen bestselling nonfiction titles. She teamed with S&S in 2007 to launch Karen Hunter Publishing, an S&S imprint focused mostly on popular nonfiction aimed at the market for African-American titles and she has published bestselling works by such authors as Patti Labelle, Janet Jackson and novelist E. Lynn Harris.
Hoodgrown Magazine Breaks Ground with iPad App
(Eurweb.com) — *What started as a print magazine that ceased publication due to increasing print cost and decreasing advertising revenue has returned as the first hip hop magazine app to hit the Apple store. Spearheaded by Chris “Cartel” English and Lord Jamar (of Brand Nubian fame), the Hoodgrown Magazine app is now available for download in the Apple App store. “Though the website has been gaining in popularity I always knew that one day we would return to our print roots,” says Hoodgrown’s CEO, Chris English.
African-American Publishing in the Digital Era
(Publishers Weekly) — Many publishers are still trying to understand what impact the rapid growth of digital technology will have on the industry and their businesses. Publishers of titles aimed at the African-American market are no different, and the digital strategies—from making e-books readable on every kind of device to using online marketing and social media—are very much the same. PW talked with a variety of publishers—from small independents to the large New York trade book houses—about how they are using digital publishing and the new technologies to reach readers in the African-American book market. The promise of digital publishing prompted Karen Hunter—publisher of the Simon & Schuster imprint Karen Hunter Publishing, a line of mostly nonfiction works aimed at the African-American market—to align with a new and separate digital publishing venture. She’s heading a digital publishing house that will launch in January and is owned by Mgmt one, a business advisory firm headquartered in Cincinnati. First One Digital Publishing plans to publish 10 e-books and will determine whether to publish print editions on a case-by-case basis.
Barnes and Noble Launches Digital Publishing Service
(Black Web 2.0) — We all know in the next couple of years, printed media (ads, newspapers, magazines, books) will disappear right? Well, that may be a little too soon, but why not take advantage of the digital age now, and start creating content specifically designed to reach out to that ever increasing populous opting for all things digital? Especially if you’re an up-and-coming author looking to get that book published but hasn’t been able to get a major publishing house to notice you.
Barnes and Noble Launches Digital Publishing Service
(Black Web 2.0) — We all know in the next couple of years, printed media (ads, newspapers, magazines, books) will disappear right? Well, that may be a little too soon, but why not take advantage of the digital age now, and start creating content specifically designed to reach out to that ever increasing populous opting for all things digital? Especially if you’re an up-and-coming author looking to get that book published but hasn’t been able to get a major publishing house to notice you.
Author John Edgar Wideman On Why He Chose To Digitally Publish
(PublishersWeekly.com) — My decision to self publish evolved gradually. An invitation to contribute a 500-word story for a special section of microfiction in O magazine started me thinking. I’d been observing glumly the shrinking space allotted to fiction in national magazines. Could O’s interest in microfiction, even if it lasted only a single issue, be a good omen?
