Book publishers around the world have reached the digital zone. There they have met, among others, app development specialists with whom they must now work closely, with enthusiasm, imagination and bags of creativity if they are to remain major players in today’s publishing revolution

The Firsty Group offers a comprehensive set of digital services to publishers and authors:

• FirstyWork - app development, eBook conversion, build and distribution
• FirstyFish - e-book and app store
• FirstyReader - eReader comparison
• FirstyNews  - market intelligence - ePublishing news

The rise and rise of e-books—as they begin to outsell print books, as they take off among the young across the world, as they become the preferred way of reading books on holiday, on aeroplanes and on desks, as they lend themselves to an ever-increasing range of electronic reading devices has turned the trickle of publishers entering the digital zone into a flood. Whether in ePub format or as apps, e-books are no longer “the future”, they are “the present”.

Some publishers have chosen to follow only the ePub route, simply converting their books—frontlist, backlist or both—into files that flow into reading devices. That’s fine, so far as it goes. It makes these books available in a format familiar to readers and easy for publishers to handle, requiring little creative input. But it doesn’t really add value to a book. It doesn’t exploit the vast potential of what digital publishing has to offer. It doesn’t constitute a revolution in book publishing or book reading.

Contact us to find out more about eBook app development and eBook conversion.