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The second NextWave event in the Asia Pacific region has turned out to be a huge success.

Over 200 attendees came from all over Thailand and even all the way from Kuala Lumpur to experience presentations from our Gold Certified partner, ColourDoctor. Adobe's Community Leader in Thailand, Kajorn Bhirakit, gave a presentation about the newly released Adobe Creative Suite 6. Adobe's Benny Sriphet presented the latest information regarding Adobe's Digital Publishing suite. The event was topped off by three very interesting case studies from Digitall (Mars Magazine), Nation Broadcasting Corporation, and Show No Limit. read more >>

Publishers from across the United Kingdom converged in London for WoodWing's Next Wave Tour, a free half-day seminar devoted to informing attendees on how to take advantage of the boom in mobile publishing. London's City Hall provided the venue, offering dramatic views of the city's skyline, especially Tower Bridge. read more >>

Tablet publishing is alive and kicking in Indonesia. Publishers here are not afraid to go for new opportunities and to innovate. Kompas Gramedia alone has 8 tablet apps in the app store and publishes daily not only to the iPad but also to Android and RIM's Playbook. Other publishers have followed suit with Media Indonesia, MRA, Tempo, Detik.com and Bali Post all having launched tablet apps with WoodWing. read more >>

Although not a complete surprise, Apple launched an impressive application at their New York event on January 21st: iBooks Author.

Together with iBooks 2, the update of iTunes U, the immediately availability of free (US) textbooks and the fact that iBooks and iBooks Author are free of charge, clearly shows Apple's ambitions regarding the educational market.

It was not a complete surprise since it was specifically mentioned in Jobs' biography: "In fact Jobs had his sights set on textbooks as the next business he wanted to transform. He believed it was a $8 billion a year industry ripe for digital destruction."

You can imagine that we at WoodWing were specifically interested in iBooks Author as the creation tool. read more >>

Asia has been a hotbed for newspaper iPad (and other tablet platform) editions right from when the iPad came out in 2010 and other tablets emerged after that. In Indonesia, Kompas Gramedia was the first daily newspaper in Asia on the iPad. In Hong Kong, the South China Morning Post was the first English daily newspaper in Asia on the iPad. In WoodWing Asia Pacific's backyard of Malaysia the newspaper publishers have also been quick to embrace the iPad and other tablets. The Star successfully launched first on the iPad, followed closely by the New Straits Times Press who launched three daily apps: Harian Metro, Berita Harian and the New Straits Times. read more >>