Publishing
Blokboek.com milestone: 40,000 ScoopIt reads
We are, dare we say it, proud to announce the 40,000th ScoopIt rear. ScoopIt is where it all started for Blokboek.com. This is where we started in March 2011 with our free news service for the creative communicator. ScoopIt is a content curating blog platform to post news items including comments or extra information. These scoops…
Lees meerSocial Media Publishing triggers Multi Channel Publishing eruption
The Multi Channel Publishing eruption is making its first waves felt with social media publishing. From Facebook Instant Pages which uses all your “friends” to publish content to Flipboard which, the other way around, looks for “friends” to fit that content, social media brings valuable content to billions of internet users worldwide. 3,424,971,237 potential…
Lees meerBritish kids app Popjam one million users
The British app for kids Popjam is a big success. Last month they got to more than 1 million users. Popjam is a mobile app for kids in the 7-14 year age range to share content – mainly photos – and participate in games and contests. Last month owner SuperAwesome announced that the app has…
Lees meerAmazon opens real bookshops
Amazon, the web retailer which made life difficult for real bookshops, will now be opening their own bookshops. At first in the US, where they will open another 2 bringing the total up to 5. The shops will sell printed books as well as Kindle eReaders and Kindle Fire tablets. Jeff Bezos, Amazon´s CEO, has…
Lees meerAre you prepared for the Multi Channel Publishing eruption?
After the DTP and POD revolutions our industry will now be faced with the MCP eruption. This Multi Channel Publishing eruption will disrupt current business models and forever change the way we publish. Driving force behind MCP is the simple fact that content has become too valuable to publish via one channel only. Valuable content…
Lees meerKickstarter hits the $100 million mark for publishing projects
Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has collected more than $100 million for publishing projects since its launch in 2009. These projects are anything from comics to serious novels and from journalism to podcasts. Not just writers use Kickstarter to get their projects on to market, also publishers and print companies do so. Kickstarter has been used for…
Lees meerLorem Ipsum ??
Many creative souls, publishers and printers use it, the dummy text ´Lorem ipsum….´ But where does this come from? A Latin professor, Richard McClintock, has done some research. It seems that we need to go back to the year 45BC. In the Latin text of De finibus bonorum et malorum (The extremes of Good and…
Lees meerSwipe: printed magazine offers the best of the internet
The internet offers a plethora of information – and that is the problem. The internet surfing reader doesn´t see the wood for the trees. Interesting information is hidden behind pop-up ads and click through options. Smart publishers came up with a solutions for the internet generation (millennials or Generation Y) and have bought out a…
Lees meerGrotesque: The comeback of an 110 year old typeface
The Berthold Akzidenz Grotesque is perhaps the most famous member of the family of letters which were very popular once. This powerful and playful typeface, made famous by McDonalds, will be given new life. Monotype fellow Rod McDonald made a complete 50 styles, series of what will be named the Classic Grotesques. The series will…
Lees meerA message to the future
The Chestnote app lets you decide when and where your messages are opened. Only a few days after the launch in July this year more than 25,000 messages were sent into the future and Chestnote was downloaded in 25 countries already. According to the manufacturers instant messaging is a thing of the past. Slow messages,…
Lees meerLargest print edition even larger, IKEA does it again!
It´s here! The IKEA 2017 catalogue. Between 16 and 27 August world´s biggest print edition with 328 pages full of design and smart solutions will be delivered to millions of Dutch households. The IKEA 2017 catalogue runs to 211 million copies and makes it world´s largest periodical. The IKEA catalogue will be distributed in 48…
Lees meerHTML creation and editing crucial for multi channel publishing
Since digital publishing usually goes hand in hand with print publishing and social media publishing is getting increasingly popular there is a high demand for apps to help accomplish this. This app should ideally be capable of converting highly automated digital workflow content for different screen sizes, resolutions and operating systems, but also manage editing…
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