Frankfurt Book Fair

Frankfurt 2009 & the rise of Digital

October 21, 2009
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I’ve had a crazy old time since I returned home from the Frankfurt Book Fair last week so this is the first chance I’ve had to sit down and write a little about my time there, and an interesting time it was. I again had the pleasure of having lunch with IDPF Executive Director, Michael [...]

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W.H.Smith’s are now selling ePub eBooks!

October 27, 2008

During the Digital Lunch seminar at this years Frankfurt Book Fair, Michael Vantusko from Overdrive commented that W.H.Smith was one of their eBook customers. As I was updating the epubbooks.com homepage I thought I’d check them out to see if they actually have them online yet. I don’t know the date W.H.Smith went live with [...]

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epubBooks at Frankfurt Book Fair 2008

October 18, 2008
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I was very lucky this year to be able to attend the Frankfurt Book Fair. As it was only going to be a one day affair for me I choose Thursday, the day of the Digital Lunch: Digital Publishing and the EPUB Standard’ seminar. Before the session got under way I had a quick look [...]

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Digital Lunch: IDPF at Frankfurt 2008

October 8, 2008
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Next Monday will mark the start of the 2008 Frankfurt Book Fair. The IDPF will of course be attending, and also presenting a session entitled; Digital Lunch: Digital Publishing and the EPUB Standard. Mike Smith (IDPF Executive Director), Steve Potash (Overdrive), Fionnuala Duggan (Random House Digital Group UK) and Robert Nell (Sony Reader) will be [...]

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