Another Wonderful eBook?
Readers may recall the troubles I’ve recently had with an enhanced ebook: The Guide to Birds of Britain and Europe. Ever the early adopter, I rushed out and plonked my money down when the immortal...
View ArticleHeritage Ebooks — the first fortnight
Heritage Ebooks, for those who don’t know, is the digital publishing arm of VisConPro Ltd, the holding company of fotoLibra. So we’re sister companies: same owners, same shareholders, same staff. We...
View ArticleJoin the Conversation
This Sunday, as part of the London Book Fair, the Digital Minds Conference will be held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster, London. The organisers have told us to get there in...
View ArticleThe Feminisation Of Marketing
… or Feminization if you’re American. At the Digital Minds Conference last Sunday, part of the London Book Fair (from which I’ve only just surfaced, so please excuse the tardiness of this thought)...
View ArticleConsumables, Landfill, Heirlooms
subtitled CONTENT vs DEVICES I wish I knew what it was about the human condition that makes people like me pant after shiny things, wide aperture lenses and items with plugs. Take ebooks. The Kindle is...
View ArticleFollies: Fabulous, Fanciful and Frivolous Buildings
If I don’t blow my own trumpet nobody else is going to do it for me*, so I’d like to announce that — TA RA! — today is the publication day of my latest book Follies: Fabulous, Fanciful and Frivolous...
View ArticleIllustrated Ebooks: A View From The Coal Face
First, some housekeeping. We’ve had teething problems with an email server since last Friday. It’s fixed now, but if you’ve recently contacted fotoLibra and haven’t yet had a reply, please send your...
View ArticleContentious VAT On Ebooks
Printed books are zero-rated for VAT in the UK. Ebooks are taxed at 20%. Publishers have taken a softly-softly approach to VAT on ebooks, fearful that if they kick up too much of a fuss the Government...
View ArticleWhen Is A Book Not A Book?
We had a mailshot from the Frankfurt Book Fair yesterday. It said “Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and the Frankfurt Book Fair are this year asking again for entries to be submitted for the DAM...
View ArticleI Am Copy Editor
The Copy Editor, diligently scanning for literals, is now an extinct species in the wild …
View ArticleHow to transform your photographs into a book you will treasure forever
The medium of photography has often become far too disposable, our pictures stored on digital platforms rather than in a format we can hold, pass around and display. Bob Books was founded in order to...
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