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 »
E-bookseller and e-reader company Kobo is being acquired by Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten for $315 million. The company says it will c… Read more »
Digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media is getting into e-singles with a new program, “Short Shots,” which will publish short-form fict… Read more »
Random House and Borders have proposed an amount the publisher is owed from the bookseller’s bankruptcy. Read more »
Teenagers who founded their own start-ups could find themselves featured in titles from Backlit, a new young adult e-book publisher based in… Read more »
E-books now make up about a fifth of “big six” publisher Hachette’s U.S. sales, but net sales for the quarter were down overall. Read more »
On the heels of opening its doors in the UK and Canada, the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) eBookstore launched today in Australia. Google is also launc… Read more »
When Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch introduced the Simple Touch Reader this past May, he described it as an e-reader easy enou… Read more »
A day after Amazon’s announcement that it will begin lending e-books free to Kindle-owning Prime members, and following the discovery last n… Read more »
With Simon & Schuster (NYSE: CBS), HarperCollins, Penguin and Harlequin all releasing earnings in the past week, it seems like a good time t… Read more »
Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) has been widely expected to reveal a new tablet at an event to be held in New York next Monday, and now we are st… Read more »
Robert Tercek, the former MTV exec and ex-president, Digital Media of Discovery’s OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network, closed paidContent Enterta… Read more »
That’s the full text of an e-mail my dad sent me this morning. He’s referring, obviously, to Amazon’s launch of the Kindle lending library f… Read more »
Amazon’s self-publishing platform, Kindle Direct Publishing, has a rule: If you use it to publish a book, and then sell that same book on an… Read more »
Two weeks ahead of the shipping date for the Kindle Fire, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is adding more to its all-you-can-eat media buffet for Amazon… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) isn’t exactly lacking for praise these days, and much of it is deserved. The company has revolutionized digital publishi… Read more »
Our neighbors up north can now shop at the Canadian *Google* eBookstore, which is open for business today. Read more »
There’s this little tablet called the Kindle Fire that has been getting some press recently, but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is forging ahead… Read more »
It has become something of a meme that young kids take to smartphones and tablets like fish to water. Today sees a development that could fo… Read more »
HarperCollins is acquiring Christian publisher Thomas Nelson–publisher of the mega-bestselling Heaven Is For Real–for $200 million in a de… Read more »
Publishing house John Wiley has joined the anti-piracy fray by filing a lawsuit against people who downloaded illicit copies of its popular… Read more »
With e-books now making up about 20 percent of sales for many big publishers, it’s essential for bestseller lists to include them in order t… Read more »
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Independent bricks-and-mortar bookstores are struggling, but indie e-bookstores may just be the next big thing. Author and former Gawker edi… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) appears to be ramping up its activities in China. Today a report notes that the company is in talks with the Chinese gov… Read more »
If a book catches your interest on British social reading site aNobii, you’ll now be able to buy it directly from the publisher. The site, w… Read more »
Bloomsbury Publishing, which operates in both the U.S. and UK (and is the UK publisher of the Harry Potter series) is seeing “unprecedented”… Read more »
Despite industry organizations’ fears that Amazon’s acquisition of UK online bookseller The Book Depository will create a de facto monopoly,… Read more »
Many community-based reading apps rely on the readers to get the conversation started. That’s great if your Facebook friends are sparkling l… Read more »
On the official morning of its release, Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs is #1 on the Kindle bestseller list, #1 in Apple’s iBookstore and #2 on… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is now accepting Kindles, and other brands of e-readers, in its trade-in program. Come with us on a scaaaaaaaaaary voyag… Read more »
Kindle may come to Japan as early as the end of this year, according to reports today in Japanese newspaper Nikkei Business Daily and wire s… Read more »
It is surprisingly hard for an author to know how many copies his or her book is selling. Now Simon & Schuster (NYSE: CBS) is giving its aut… Read more »
In an effort to compete with Amazon’s Kindle Fire, e-reading company Kobo is launching a tablet of its own: The $199.99 Kobo Vox, a 7-inch A… Read more »
This summer, Politico signed a deal with Random House to publish four instant e-books about the 2012 presidential campaign. Now Politico has… Read more »
The 18- to 34-year-old demographic, long sought by advertisers and TV shows, is now in the sights of a new website, Book Riot, which aims to… Read more »
Wannabe authors post their works to Authonomy, the writing community site launched by HarperCollins in 2008, in the hopes of being discovere… Read more »
In a move he describes as akin to “having your own minor-league baseball team,” Michael Wolf, GigaOm’s VP research, is launching his own dig… Read more »
Big U.S. publishers are now reporting that e-books now make up between 15 and 20 percent of their sales-a dramatic and quick rise since 2010… Read more »
