Publishers Perpective - Slicebooks Aims to Take Re-mixable Ebooks Mainstream

Slicebooks Aims to Take Re-mixable Ebooks Mainstream Slicebooks offers tools for producing re-mixable ebooks. But the implications of this go far beyond generating more sales, explains co-founder Jill Tomich.

Is Re-mixing the Answer for Good, Fast and Cheap Ebooks? An old cliché goes: You can have it good, fast or cheap, pick any two. But all three? When it comes to ebooks, new tools might be able to deliver all three.

More News from PP: 80,000 Titles From Netherlands National Library and Google Now Online The National Library of the Netherlands and Google, which began in 2011 to digitize 160,000 books from the library, have just made 80,000 publicly available. Frommer’s Print Travel Guides A Thing of the Past? Not So Fast. Arthur Frommer, who founded his eponymous travel guide series in 1957 and sold it to Simon & Schuster in 1977, has reacquired the rights to the brand from Google.

From the Archives: Cloud-Based Book Subscriptions: Challenges and Opportunities Justo Hidalgo argues that 24Symbol’s business model is a counterbalance to piracy, fills a need for readers, will generate print sales for publishers.