A few of you requested the full list of entries to the FutureBook app award. Well here it is, in no particular order. As you will see it is impossible for us to shortlist this number so we are splitting this category into three areas - Kids, Adult, Reference/Non-trade. So there will be 3 awards in this category. Be interested to know how many you're familiar with and which ones excite you. Enjoy: Read more »

I spent an enjoyable hour over the weekend geeking out over our FutureBook awards entries. If you are excited by what's going on in publishing (which I'm assuming you are if you visit this blog), then I'm happy to report the industry is alive and well. Read more »

We are delighted to announce that Stephen Page, CEO of Faber and Faber will be talking at the FutureBook conference. He will discuss his vision for a modern day publisher and how you drive change within an organisation. Stephen joins Evan Schnittman and Dominique Raccah on our keynote session. Read more »

 In March this year, FutureBook presented the first ever awards for 'digital innovation' across publishing. We had 93 entries from all around the world. Building on this success we are announcing the next phase of these awards.

You can enter 1 or more of the 6 categories. Categories have changed slightly since last time to reflect rapid change in the industry.  Read more »

Ebook markets in many countries are developing at a rapid pace. I’d like to share an opinion on that from a perspective of an ebook user living in one of such countries: Poland. Comparing to what you see in US, where know-how, devices and content are flowing outside, the factors which push a medium-size ebook market forward are different, to be precise – totally different. Read more »

Last month, Tara’s Maegan Dobson attended Publishing Next – India’s first conference on the future of publishing. Read more »

If you aren't familiar with The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore iPad app, I highly recommend you download it. The developers Moonbot Studios based in LA have 'blurred the line between picture book and animation' in one of the most visually stunning iPad apps. Joe Bluhm, lead artist at Moonbot gives us the story behind the huge success of this app:

What made you launch a book app? Read more »

Google eBooks has launched it e-bookstore in the UK. The store has gone live at Google.co.uk/ebooks with frontlist titles including The Fear Index by Robert Harris priced at £9.06 and Kill Alex Cross by James Patterson priced at £8.06. Read more »

There is always the temptation to cast the biggest player embroiled in an event as the lead player, as the one in charge, in control and closest to winning. Facebook is big, and their dance card is full of content players, but they aren't the belle of the ball, they aren't playing in the content industry let alone winning it, and they certainly aren't in control of the content libraries.

They haven't "quietly given their ¾ of a billion users access to 3 of the worlds largest content libraries, direct to their screens, in a completely device neutral environment." Read more »

Kobo’s recent announcement that they are going to roll out their social reading platform Pulse to enable FaceBook users to share and discover books brings Facebook into play. Read more »