Opposition protesters in Minsk in 2010. Kseniya Avimova | Demotix Europe’s last dictatorship plans even tighter controls over citizens’ access to the digital world, Index shows in a new report Belarus has one of the most hostile med... more

With the dominating presence of smartphone and tablet technologies within todays current market, it is clear to see why major comic book publishers have placed large amounts of focus and resources into the digital publishing frontier. Both intera... more

Amazon’s Kindle has become somewhat of an industry leader for digital books or e-book consumption. With millions of digital books selling through the single platform reader as well as garnering a general mainstream acceptance, there is a growing c... more

The meaning of art has been questioned many times. In my opinion the main function of literature is its ability to entertain the reader while letting him reflect and think deeper about life. Appealing to influential literature historians, literat... more

.ibooks is Apple’s proprietary ebook format based on the EPUB standard, created with the free iBook Author layout software for publishing ebooks. Due to some dissimilarities between CSS tags used in the iBooks format file, it isn’t com... more

EPUB, short for “electronic publication”, is a free and open e-book standard by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). It was initially developed in 2007 as a way to streamline digital publishing. What the IDPF didn’t consider ba... more

As a former literature student, one might expect me to be on top of all the new, digital developments in the book business that are happening as we speak. Unfortunately I am not. My technical knowledge is quite limited; however I do know something... more

Disclaimer: This blog is written by someone who lacks any digital knowledge. Bumping into inaccurate use of terms is a risk you take by reading this blog and I hereby give you the responsibility  of pointing out these errors. (But gently please) R... more

Although I’m only 25 years old, I sometimes feel like I should join my 80-years-old uncle Wim. He lives in a peacefull retirement house called Aar en Amstel, which means as much as ear of corn by the river the Amstel. Namely: contrary to mo... more

The e-book, threat or treasure, is definately a hot topic within the book industry [1]. As we all know, there is still quite some room for improvement and innovation. But how to approach the e-book? That remains the central question to which no on... more