One of the things that Steve Jobs promised us with the iPad was an age of all-singing, all-dancing ebooks. No longer would we be constrained by the limitations of pure text. Characters would speak to us, soothing music would guide us through the descriptive packages, and video would replace our imaginations (now assumed to [...]

It’s a truism to say that small independent entities are more nimble and able to react faster than larger corporate entities, but this seems to be especially true in the case of publishing.

I am currently engaged in the run-up to the publication of a non-fiction volume by a major international publisher which deals with vaguely [...]