As more independent bookstores partner with Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to sell e-books, the American Booksellers Association is releasing a free ap… Read more »
As it enters the holiday season with the new Nook Tablet for sale and hopes to seize on the “$2 billion up for grabs” as a result of Borders… Read more »
It’s taken a few years, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has really ramped up the number of countries where it is selling its Kindle products. Today… Read more »
Nearly a year ahead of his book’s publication, Tim Ferriss–the first author signed by Larry Kirshbaum’s as-yet unnamed Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN)… Read more »
Science fiction/fantasy publisher Orbit, which is part of Hachette Book Group, is expanding its short fiction e-offerings from the U.S. to t… Read more »
About a year after it launched, Seth Godin is ceasing publication of new titles at his Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing imprint, The Domino Pr… Read more »
Big-six publisher Hachette Book Group is partnering with Bloomberg Businessweek on e-singles that will “illuminate key moments in the world… Read more »
In a holiday season when e-readers are more popular than ever, many consumers still don’t know how to give them to others as gifts. So today… Read more »
Penguin is once again making its e-books available to libraries through Kindle, OverDrive reports. New Penguin e-books, however, remain unav… Read more »
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Following yesterday’s news that Penguin, citing security concerns, is pulling its new e-books from libraries–and making none of them availa… Read more »
Kyobo, South Korea’s largest bookstore chain, is launching the first e-reader to use Qualcomm’s Mirasol technology. It has a color screen th… Read more »
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has a substantial operation in China, but it has yet to take its Kindle e-reader into that market. That has left the doo… Read more »
Citing unspecified “concerns about the security of our digital editions,” Penguin Group USA is pulling new e-books from libraries; in additi… Read more »
More women are using tablets as the devices become more popular, according to new stats from eMarketer, but men aren’t making it up on the e… Read more »
The tablet magazine opportunity is not all about iPad apps.
Although nearly half of U.S. magazine publishers have launched iPad apps, about… Read more »
The much-discussed Kindle Owners’ Lending Library has been limited to books from traditional publishers up to this point, but Amazon (NSDQ:… Read more »
Many popular self-published authors are coming down hard on the self-publishing services that Penguin added to community writing site Book C… Read more »
Food52, the cooking site founded by New York Times food writer Amanda Hesser and Merrill Stubbs, is moving into apps just a couple weeks aft… Read more »
Speaking at Liberty Media’s annual investor meeting this afternoon, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch said the company expects th… Read more »
Amazon’s Kindle Fire was easily the most anticipated Android-based tablet launched in 2011, and could wind up outselling all other contender… Read more »
Aspiring writers come to Book Country, Penguin Group USA’s online genre fiction community, to post and workshop their romance, science ficti… Read more »
Barnes & Noble’s new holiday promotion–buy two James Patterson books, get a novella free–is good news for Patterson fans. More significant… Read more »
The Authors Guild is taking a stand against the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, Amazon’s new initiative allowing Kindle-owning Prime members… Read more »
The Los Angeles Times will publish up to ten e-books over the next year, beginning with the $0.99 A Nightmare Made Real, which is available… Read more »
Taking the lead from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN), Kobo is now selling a $99.99 Kobo Touch with Offers, $30 off the regular price. Read more »
In a move that surely has nothing to do with the impending launch of the Nook Tablet, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is shipping the Kindle Fire today… Read more »
The battle of the tablet newsstands continues: Condé Nast is making all 18 of its magazines available for Nook Tablet and Nook Color. Read more »
Penguin is the latest publisher to test out e-singles with the launch of Penguin Shorts, an ongoing digital series of original fiction and n… Read more »
A new day, and a new device to challenge Apple’s iPad in the market for tablets. Read more »
Just last month, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) rolled out its Kindle Fire, the first Kindle designed as a full media device — not an e-reader with so… Read more »
Building on the massive success of its 39 Clues adventure series for kids–which includes not just print books but also online games and car… Read more »
Irish developer Ideal Binary has raised €750k (around £642k) to fuel its ambitions in the increasingly competitive book-apps market. The… Read more »
Contests, neon signs, bookmarks and ninety-minute customer help sessions: Some of the ways that indie bricks-and-mortar booksellers are prom… Read more »
In his self-published book The Attempted Murder of God: Hidden Science You Really Need to Know, British entrepreneur Chris McGrath set out t… Read more »
If you’ve ever wondered how certain books wind up on library shelves, or how your children’s school librarian chooses which books to buy, th… Read more »
Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia is launching an e-book publishing program, “E-books De Vanguardia.” It appears to be the first Spanish newsp… Read more »
Amanda Hocking, the 27-year-old self-published author who said in March that she had sold over 1 million copies of her e-books, is just now… Read more »
An upstart e-reader firm picked the wrong fight when it decided to use boxing legend Muhammad Ali’s slogan without permission in a full-page… Read more »
