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Adult colouring books have been topping headlines as the latest craze in book publishing, but should we be surprised?

The current bestselling title at Amazon is Secret Garden, an Adult Colouring Book (no...not that kind of adult!). Illustrated by Johanna Basford, it is a beautiful compilation of pen-and-ink illustrations just begging to be coloured in. It even doubles as a treasure hunt, with hidden tiny creatures and even blank spaces to continue drawing!

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With all their power, what will platforms like Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter do to the world of publishing? Or is it more a question of what they are already doing?

For a while, Facebook has been ahead of the curve. A brilliant example is their exploitation of recent video trends by enabling auto-play by default as you scroll past any video on your timeline. Simple, and not without backlash, but 100% the right decision. Now users have fewer reasons to leave their site.

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Call it obvious, but if social media and digital publishing had a baby, it would be called social publishing. So why is it important to integrate Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and all the rest with with your digital edition?

It would be very easy for me to throw around (as many do) buzzwords such interactivity, engagement and visibility. Simply increase all those, and you will have yourself a perfect social publishing solution.

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