When digital publishing platform Glossi launched its public beta last December, it hadn’t quite addressed one of the big questions that revolves around any “future of media”-type platform — how publishers are going to make money.
NewsCred, which provides licensed content to publishers and brands for their websites and content marketing campaigns, has acquired a startup called Daylife.
The financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed. NewsCred did say that it expects to bring all of Daylife’s employees over to the new team.
Barnes & Noble content and tablet subsidiary Nook Media, part-owned by Microsoft specifically to help boost content for its new Windows 8 platform, today put some of that strategy into action: it has announced that people who download the Nook app for Windows 8 will get five books and five magazines free of charge.
This is in addition to the company’s existing list of free books from its
Kobo announced today via its company blog that the Kobo Glo and Kobo Mini e-readers are now on sale at Canadian retailers Indigo, Future Shop and Best Buy, and in the U.K. at WHSmith. The $80 Mini and $130 Glo were announced in September, just ahead of the unveiling of Amazon’s new Kindle lineup.
Glossi, the digital publishing platform from social commerce company ThisNext, is going into public beta today, which means that a much broader group of people can use Glossi’s tools to build and publish their own online magazines with Glossi’s tools (though you still need an invitation).
CEO Matt Edelman said the company built Glossi in response to a number of different trends, includ
Graphicly is about to close a $1 million bridge round of funding, as first revealed in a regulatory filing.
The company started out as a marketplace for digital comics, but last year it launched a new set of tools aimed helping publishers distribute their content onto a wide range of platforms, including iOS, Android, and Kindle. CEO Micah Baldwin told me today that things have been taking off, wi
Kobo, the Canadian e-reader, tablet and e-book company owned by Japan’s e-commerce giant Rakuten, today unveiled its newest device, the Aura HD, a limited-edition e-reader it’s aiming it at power bookworms, with a 265dpi resolution on a 6.8-inch screen, 4 gigabytes of storage and a two-month battery life for the premium price of $169.99 (£139.99).
Madefire, the True Ventures-backed startup building a new kind of digital comics, just announced that it’s partnering with deviantART.
Madefire offers a platform for creating comics with additional animation, music, and sound effects — it’d make sense to call the format “motion comics,” except that word is already being used for comics that have been transformed into fully
Pressly, the mobile publishing platform and former TechCrunch Disrupt finalist which makes websites smartphone and tablet-friendly, is today launching to the public, accompanied by $1.5 million in outside funding from iNovia Capital and OMERS Ventures.
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