Using PDFs as a content presentation and delivery vehicle is still a hot button issue, and has cropped up in a few different threads online: -- PDF vs. HTML: VC…

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Links, yay, like..wow… Related: One giant leap for mankind

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The Adobe PDF has become the de facto standard for distributing documents on the Web. Yet the story can’t simply end there, can it? Surely technology must find a way…

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An essay about the present eBook readers and technology out there...and what will it take for the adoption to rise. “Like iPod, none of the eBook enhancements need be especially…

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Another story in the latest issue of B2B’s Media Business magazine (download here) (on page 16): In a curious move, Reed Business Information recently picked Olive Software as its second…

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Business 2.0 has redesigned its website and now loks exactly like its sister magazine Fortune‘s website. As if Fortune people weren’t threatened enough with B2.0 print magazine encroaching their turf,…

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NewsStand, the Austin, TX-based electronic editions software provider (enabling electronic/digital PDF editions of newspapers and magazines) has received $7.2 million in a round of funding led by Adams Capital that…

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Publishing software giant Adobe Systems reported an expected sequential drop in quarterly profit and revenue: net income of $109.4 million, up from $64.2 million in the same period a year…

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They’ve finally figured it out, haven’t they? That’s the least these digital version software companies can do...NewsStand has unveiled a browser-based tool for reading digital editions of newspapers and periodicals…

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The Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) for the UK and Ireland, has unveiled new rules to enable publishers to report digital editions on their existing ABC print certificates. While digital…

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An odd place to be for Adobe: it has developed a new version of its free Adobe Reader software for the Linux platform, and in addition, highlighted the first commercial…

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Jack Shafer digs deeper into the electronic/digital versions of newspapers: last time he looked at New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, and had some suggestions.…

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Olive Software, the electronic publishing (digital editions) technology/software company based in Denver, CO, has received $6 million in funding, from Sequoia Capital. The Olive ActivePaper product is used by newspapers…

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In UK, that is...Adobe says 55% of the UK’s top selling women’s titles, including Condé Nast’s Glamour, the National Magazine Company’s Cosmopolitan and Emap’s Marie Claire, are already produced using…

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The top-ten digitally delivered magazines are all tech titles, with Java Developer’s Journal, published by Sys-Con Media, leading the pack with 43 percent of its file delivered digitally. The numbers…

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The U.S. Army announced Tuesday it will spend $43.7 million over the next five years on a center at Arizona State University that will develop flexible electronic displays. The idea…

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“All this talk of whether print is superior to web or whether the web is going to eventually make newspapers and magazines redundant is a bit silly. Print publishing and…

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(PDF Download): This is perhaps the most comprehensive study done on the digital editions of newspapers and other print publications. The report, available for free from the AIM Group (and…

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(sub. req.): E-Books are dead yet. with huge potential in libraries and academic book sales..

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“Are PressDisplay, NewspaperDirect or NewsStand fully satisfactory replacements for the newspaper I pick up in my driveway at 5:30 every morning? Not really. Not for me anyway.”

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Adobe Systems made a surprise move Wednesday to revive the faltering e-book market, opening its own online store. The Adobe Digital Media Store offers books from major publishers such as…

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NewsStand and Wayport announced today that they have teamed with New York Times to offer free downloads of its electronic edition to travelers using the Wayport service at partner locations…

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“Digital editions are perceived as being an “in-between”—not quite a newspaper, not quite an online edition. But they seem to have their own value to customers as an add-on to…

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(Real Audio File): NewsHour with Jim Lehrer did a 7 minute segment on digital editions of newspapers, yesterday. Pretty balanced. Funny that NewsHour calls the digital edition users “early adapters”…

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Newsstand and Zinio Systems unveiled new digital publishing initiatives that are likely to accelerate the migration of printed media to digital formats. Newsstand is launching its first consumer subscription acquisition…

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