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Publishing Scholarly and Specialist Non-Fiction Web Apps: From Authoritative Text to Informed Conversation

Web app publication of The Caldwell Collection of Viols Music Word Media has published the first in a series of innovative web applications on musical topics. The app presents The Caldwell Collection of Viols, by Catharina Meints Caldwell (Oberlin College Conservatory),  published previously for iPad in May 2012 and Read More →

Cross-platform multimedia publishing with the Baker Framework

Cross-platform multimedia publishing with the Baker Framework by Ardal Powell, CEO, Music Word Media Group Unlike most of the other presenters, I’m a publisher rather than a solution provider, and I’m here to tell you about an open-source HTML5 publishing platform that is free to use and Read More →

217 pictures = 217,000 words?

viols_app_icon “As for a picture, if it isn’t worth a thousand words, the hell with it.” The point seems especially worth noting on the publication of our iPad app of The Caldwell Collection of Viols, which presents the 22 historic stringed musical Read More →

What is a book?

IMG_0019-1024x768 To the discussion begun by Melanie “Mimi” Hegge’s provocative philosophical question on Music Word Media’s Facebook page, I submit this post-Saturday-luncheon musing. Beyond certain crannies of the professional publishing world populated by geeks, hipsters, and visionaries, most of the discussion Read More →

What I did this summer

What I did this summer by Ardal Powell Since our last post on this blog, back in May, we’ve posted some of what’s been going on at on two of our imprint blogs, for scholars and serious general readers at Custos, and for children at Read More →

Hello world!

A surprise is the feeling of an old belief breaking Clay Shirky Read More →

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