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Among the top 5 spoken languages in the world, Mandarin leads the pack with 955 million people, followed by Spanish – 405 million, English – 360 million, Hindi/Urdu and Arabic at 310 million & 295 million respectively. It turns out, English ranks third on the list despite its high popularity. Regarding business, the above figuresRead more

The latest study released by McGraw-Hill Education in partnership with Hanover Research has 3000 students voice their digital preferences in college education. It has useful insights, learning trends and understanding on why digital should be a serious consideration for academic publishers in 2017. In the study, 81% of students say digital learning technology is helping themRead more

With less than a month to go, we will be at Frankfurt Book fair, to be held from 19th to 23rd October, 2016. 2016 marks Hurix’s 6th year at the fair and like each year there is a lot of excitement and hyper-activity for the preparation of the event. In our FBF blog series weRead more

Is digital the real opportunity or troublemaker for book publishers and their revenues? The book business has hit rough waters since the arrival of Kindle, and from then on, publishers around the world are working hard to come to terms with the new digital marketplace and competition. If book publishers were to retrospect on whatRead more

PDF to ePub conversion is a lot of hard work. The task of PDF to reflowable ePub3 conversion can get even more daunting when eBooks are written in native languages. It is a lot of sweat for the type designer and linguist expert, who have to work in perfect sync all along to put theRead more

4 Ways Publishers, Institutions and Corporate Can Excite Learners with LMS Advances in technology have reduced the world to a global village and communication to a speed of thought. In the age of the Internet, where information of all kinds can be accessed at a mere click of a mouse, education cannot be restricted toRead more

3 Biggest Obstacles with Digital Publishing In this day and age, technology is taking over, which can have its positive and negative consequences on digital publishing. Today, more than 26% of consumers prefer the tablet or Smartphone versions of articles than their printed editions and from August 2012 to February 2013, there was a 200-percentRead more

Five Reasons to Invest in Mobile Sales Enablement today   Do you know that 71% of sales representatives feel that knowledge gap is the reason why they are unable to close the deals? With such a big ratio of sales rep feeling not having the right material at the point of sale, it puts aRead more

9 reasons why Institutions need to embrace eBooks Last week New York City announced its partnership worth USD 30mn with Amazon, to create an eBook marketplace for its 1,800 public schools. While this is a seriously big news, it brings back another important question about eBooks – How important is it for Institutions such asRead more

Publishing – It’s Time To Adapt To Change, Aggressively! That publishing technology is advancing is a cliché, well worn yet relevant, more so now than at any time before. Publishers recognize it, and so do consumers. The pace of change is both intimidating and breathtaking in as much as it is revealing for the potential itRead more