With 11 million readers of their ad-supported free textbooks in 2011 and 50 million expected for 2012, Bookboon is big and prepping to go after the US market.
A Bright Future for Scandinavian Digital Publishing
At the Scandinavian Publishing Executive Meeting hosted by Schilling in Copenhagen, publishers surveyed the future of digital publishing in the region and found hope.
Licensees Need to Loosen Up, Says Egmont Kids Digital Director
Children’s publishers and license holders need to prepare for broader license agreements to meet the challenges of moving from print to digital.
Bookselling in Denmark: Prioritizing English Over German, Nonfiction Over Novels?
A visit to bookstores in Copenhagen reveals a bias toward America and the UK rather than, as one might expect, Denmark’s neighbor Germany.
The Book That Almost Never Was: ‘100 Stories for Haiti’
By Greg McQueen AARTHUS, DENMARK: The book 100 Stories for Haiti — a forthcoming charity anthology with proceeds going for Haitian earthquake relief — wouldn’t have been possible five years ago. As it happened, I posted an appeal for stories on the morning of Tuesday, January, 19. Just one week after the earthquake that left over 200,000 dead. The final …