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EA/Chillingo's E3 2013 offerings: Plants vs Zombies 2, Fightback and more

by Mike Schramm (Jun 17th, 2013)

Chillingo, unfortunately, wasn't mentioned at all during EA's press conference last week. I thought the big publisher would at least give a little nod to its extremely successful mobile publishing arm, but no such luck. I did, however, go and see the team gathered in their annual suite near the ...

US Justice Department makes opening arguments in e-book price fixing case

by Yoni Heisler (Jun 4th, 2013)

Apple's e-book price fixing trial began yesterday in New York and the US Justice Department wasted no time painting a picture purporting to show that Apple, along with five publishing houses, colluded to artificially raise the price of e-books. In a series of 81 slides released on Monday, the ...

Adobe charging 10 percent royalty on iOS games made with Director 12

by Randy Nelson (Feb 13th, 2013)

Adobe recently released version 12 of Director, its interactive app creation system, and in doing so introduced the ability for those who use the app to create iOS games to publish their titles directly to the App Store. As it turns out, that potentially time-saving capability comes at a premium. ...

Aspyr Media charges on in the wild world of Mac gaming

by Mike Schramm (Jan 31st, 2013)

I've been vocal for many, many years now about Aspyr and their like, and exactly how I feel about them. I'm a big fan of gaming, of course, and a big fan of Apple and the Mac. And Aspyr sits right at the intersection of those two worlds: They're a company, based in Austin with about 50 ...

Apple's iBookstore to hit Japan this year

by Michael Grothaus (Jan 2nd, 2013)

Before Apple rolled out the iBookstore in Japan in 2010, it failed to negotiate the necessary contracts with Japan's biggest book publishers. As a result, the iBookstore in Japan was stocked predominately with free, public domain e-books. The only paid e-books in the store have been from very ...

Sorry folks, book publishers don't know Apple's plans

by Michael Grothaus (Dec 28th, 2012)

I've been working on a book for the next version of iPhoto for a while now. I have some friends who have been working on a book for the next version of iWork since last August, too. Matter of fact, my iPhoto book has a publishing date of March 31, 2013. These books are being written for ...

GameFly enters the world of mobile game publishing with Writer Rumble

by Mike Schramm (Nov 29th, 2012)

GameFly is a company that works like Netflix for video games -- you give them a subscription fee every month, and in return, they send you out a video game at a time, which you can send back when you're done to get another. It's a very popular service among gamers, and so the company has had ...

Chillingo explains why devs need them

by Mike Schramm (Nov 28th, 2012)

Chillingo COO Ed Rumley had a chat with GamesIndustry, and said that the iOS publisher (which is owned by EA) is more needed than ever by developers. Yes, he admits it's easier than ever for anyone to make and publish a game on the App Store, but the hard part comes after that. "We always ...

iBook Lessons: Traditional publishers react to new trends

by Erica Sadun (Oct 3rd, 2012)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about ebook writing and publishing. A year ago, traditional publishers seemed hopelessly left behind as a new world of instant-pub media emerged. Self-publishing, specifically via services and tools like those provided by Apple's iBookstore/iBooks Author and ...

Sega Alliance launched, will provide marketing and production support for indies

by Mike Schramm (Aug 16th, 2012)

Sega has announced a mobile initiative that it's calling the Sega Alliance, which seems like a publishing division of Sega Mobile. Sega says the Alliance will "provide participating developers with comprehensive marketing and production support as well as creative consultation." In other ...

Inkling now available for iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Jul 31st, 2012)

Inkling is a popular virtual textbook publisher on the iPad, and it's recently expanded over to the web, allowing students to access their virtual textbooks from anywhere. Now, the company is adding one more platform to its repertoire: the iPhone. The Inkling app is now universal, which means ...

US Senator says DOJ should drop Apple ebook lawsuit

by Steven Sande (Jul 19th, 2012)

Senator Charles Schumer of New York (right) appealed to the U.S. Department of Justice yesterday in the Wall Street Journal to drop its lawsuit against Apple and a number of major publishers. The DOJ alleges that Apple and the publishers colluded to raise prices in the ebook market. Schumer ...

Next Issue offers all-you-can-read iPad magazine store

by Mel Martin (Jul 10th, 2012)

It's being called kind of a Netflix for magazines, and the description is apt. Five top U.S. publishers have gotten together to provide an iPad app that lets you read a great variety of magazines at a price of U.S. $9.99-$14.99 per month. The new company is called Next Issue and it's a rather ...

iBook Lessons: Publishing costs

by Erica Sadun (Jun 13th, 2012)

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about ebook writing and publishing. Andrew Hyde jumped into the ebook business with both feet. After fully funding a KickStarter project to raise start-up costs for his "This Book is about Travel," he published his manuscript to a variety of vendors. His ...

Roambi adds app publishing tool to analytics lineup

by Michael Rose (May 30th, 2012)

The iPad's ongoing march into the enterprise means that sales, presentation and analytics apps are perpetually hot on the App Store and in business deployment plans. The make-the-numbers-shiny analytics crowd has gravitated towards apps like MicroStrategy, QlikView and IBM's Cognos Mobile to ...