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Webcomics, especially the vertical long-scrolling sagas popular on sites like Webtoon and Tapas, have emerged as industry game-changers. 'A decade and a half ago, all the talk was print-to-digital,' says [...]

In 2006, when PW released the first report on the content services industry in India, the topics centered on XML, PDF, and e-deliverables, and conversations revolved around print- vs. content-centric [...]

In 2015, self-publishing saw a number of high-profile success stories. Jamie McGuire's Beautiful Redemption became the first novel by an indie author to find shelf space at Walmart, and Andy-Weir's [...]

Each year just before April, which is, of course, National Poetry Month, PW takes an extended look at a burning issue in the world of poetry publishing, an extremely active [...]

Given the relatively tiny market for books in Africa, one can come to the erroneous conclusion that Africans do not like to read. Nothing can be further from the truth [...]

Every young writer's dream probably goes a little something like this: Start writing a book, publish it online, and gain a massive fan base from all around the world. Then [...]

Readers have never had it so good. But publishers need to adapt better to the digital world DURING the next few weeks publishers will release a crush of books, pile [...]

Pre-press firms are becoming niche specialists or moving to online content, writes Simon Nias. Last week's pre-media news highlighted two separate, but related, trends in the sector. First, publishers' gradual [...]

In the past two years, growth in e-book sales has slowed and in some cases declined. Publishers have hailed the shift as a break in the digital revolution, and some [...]

Publishing consultant Ruediger Wischenbart, presenting the International Publishing Associaton's annual look at world book markets, warned that while publishing markets are shrinking in wealthier nations, the number of titles in [...]

Whatever else can be said about Tools of Change, O'Reilly Media's traveling road show on publishing and technological change, it seems to come along just when a concentrated dose of [...]

You've heard the news: Print is down, web traffic is up. Eyeballs are wandering. Click-throughs are, well, all over the place. Are you shuddering as you hold this printed page [...]

Ereaders and multifunction tablets would become as ubiquitous as MP3 players if prices were cut in half and if consumers were given more choices about content and functionality, according to [...]

'It is impossible to believe that a diverse, creative, risk-taking industry will be the result of creating ever-bigger corporate juggernauts. The irony is that publishers feel they are being forced [...]

Almost half of all publishers think they will be making more money from digital content than print books by the end of 2020, this year's Digital Census by The Bookseller [...]

The MP3 format and the subsequent arrival of iTunes formed the catalyst for the exponential growth in paid-for music downloads. So, what, if any, are the similarities between e-books and [...]

The chaotic melee now taking place in Japan, as publishing makes room for e-books at last, has been compared to a Wild West Klondike-like rush. Some, however, prefer to liken [...]

The curtain has fallen on a sunny and crowded London Book Fair, certainly the busiest and most optimistic since the last preerash fair in 2008. There was a clear sense [...]

Enhanced e-books are dead, discoverability is the most important issue facing e-book vendors, while pricing strategies should be measured against other digital content, not physical books. These were the key [...]

For years, commentators have talked excitedly about, how 'going digital' will revolutionise the way we engage with books. And now, all over the web we see examples of design studios [...]