IPG Teams with Beat Technology for D2C E-books, Audiobooks

Distribution affiliates of Independent Publishers Group will now be able to sell e-books and audiobooks directly to readers through the Norway-based white-label app provider’s first U.S. platform, Shelf.

Former PRH India Editor Develops AI-Powered Editorial Platform

Editrix, a new AI-powered editorial platform founded by Meru Gokhale, aims to provide automated developmental editing, structural editing, and inline editing capabilities for fiction and nonfiction manuscripts.

Goodreads Cofounder Launches Smashing, a Content Curation App

Otis Chandler, cofounder and former CEO of Goodreads, is among those who have launched Smashing, a new reading app that will provide a daily feed of news, podcasts, and social media posts based on users’ interests.

Inside Tapas Entertainment’s Plans for Webtoons, Webnovels, and Publishing

With the debut of Webtoon on the U.S. stock market dominating comics world headlines last month, South Korea’s other webcomic and webnovel giant, Kakao Entertainment, and its Tapas platform are eyeing ambitions of their own.

Book2Look Expands U.S. Presence, Adds Books-A-Million, HarperCollins

The embeddable book widget service has partnered with bookseller Books-A-Million in the U.S. and publisher HarperCollins worldwide, expanding its reach and scope.

As Fable Grows, the Mobile Book Club Platform Adds Personalization Features

Fable.co, the mobile platform for online book clubs launched in 2021, has added a personalized book discovery and discussion feed called Fable For You. The company now has 400,000 users and 14,000 book clubs.

Ex-PRH CEO Madeline McIntosh Dives Into AI

The former Penguin Random House CEO joined a panel hosted by the Frankfurt Book Fair discussing artificial intelligence, asserting that AI could help combat piracy and assist with contracts, scouting, marketing, translations, and audiobook production.

OpenAI Debuts GPT-4

The company behind GPT-3 and ChatGPT has released its latest upgrade of the generative AI tool as concerns over AI text generation proliferate in the book world.

Digital Book World: Startups Are Entering 'A New Age'

DBW's final day looked at a recent study of publishing industry startups and found that innovation takes all forms, from wildly successful ideas that took time to take off, like Audible, to cutting edge innovations, like blockchain book retailing.

Digital Book World 2023: The Future of AI Writing and Audio

According to multiple presenters at the Digital Book World conference, ChatGPT has potential to remake the way people write and streamline production and editing, while AI voice replication promises affordable audiobook adaptations.

New App Aims to Improve Book Discovery

Tertulia, a free book discovery app, includes a purchasing and shipping option, and has a catalog of about 15 million titles.

Medium Acquires Digital Reading Platform Glose

Digital publishing platform Medium has acquired Glose, a digital reading platform and e-book and audiobook retailer, based in Paris. Glose offers social media tools inside the platform's reading experience.

Radish Fiction App Secures $63.2M in New Funding

Radish, a mobile reading app launched in 2016 that offers short serialized fiction supported by a micropayment platform, has secured $63.2 million in new series A funding.

NetGalley Expands to Audio, Launches New App

NetGalley has announced a new audiobooks arm along with a new app, NetGalley Shelf, making audiobooks available on the service for the first time and bringing the platform to its users' smartphones.

A Shout-Out to Tech from the Book Biz

Bill Kasdorf wants to thank the tech industry for helping publishing get through the pandemic.

For Editorial Tools, the Interface Is the Thing

To improve the efficiency of digital tools, technologists and users need to collaborate, writes Bill Trippe.

Submittable Comes of Age

Since its launch a decade ago, the submission management platform has spread its wings. (Sponsored)

Calm Is Sleeping Its Way to Success

A popular meditation app turns to storytelling in an effort to help its users sleep better.

Navigating the Open Access Path

On its website, Springer Nature defines publications as Open Access (OA) if they are freely available online to all at no cost and with limited restrictions on reuse.

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