The newest set of statistics from the Association of American Publishers show that e-books saw triple-digit percentage growth again in July,… Read more »
Princeton University Press appears to be the first university press to join the e-singles game. On November 9, the press will launch Princet… Read more »
Releasing out-of-print titles as e-books can bring them new life, attention and readers. In its new imprint, Macmillan Bello, UK publisher P… Read more »
It’s no longer necessary to go to the library for a new book–you can just visit your local library’s website from home or from your mobile… Read more »
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing’s general trade imprint, headed by publishing industry vet Larry Kirshbaum, reportedly paid $850,000 for Lave… Read more »
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Steve Jobs was an extremely private person for someone so renowned for stagecraft, and his family was perhaps the most private part of his l… Read more »
Four days after Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the French Kindle and accompanying Kindle store, rival e-book company Kobo announced that it’s… Read more »
Science fiction/fantasy is one of the most popular e-book genres, so Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing wants to be there. A project earlier thi… Read more »
Hearst hopes that its snack-size Good Housekeeping “mini cookbooks,” which it is selling for $0.99 on Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and Nook, will enti… Read more »
New initiatives from Open Road Integrated Media and Wattpad hope to draw teen readers in with webisodes, music videos, “triggered events” an… Read more »
Charlie Redmayne, EVP and chief digital officer of HarperCollins, is leaving to become the CEO of interactive Harry Potter site Pottermore.c… Read more »
Amazon’s new tablet won’t be available until November 15, but it’s never too early to file a patent suit. Smartphone Technologies LLC, which… Read more »
The Kindle Fire has been getting most of the attention, but it won’t make up the bulk of Amazon’s device sales in 2012, Barclays says in a n… Read more »
The ugly fight between writers and universities over book scanning is getting bigger. The Authors’ Guild yesterday updated its court complai… Read more »
In the marketing campaign for one much-anticipated book being published this month, dogs are able to ask experts questions on Facebook. In a… Read more »
As election season approaches, Random House’s Crown Publishing is teaming up with political website RealClearPolitics to publish a four-book… Read more »
Yesterday Google (NSDQ: GOOG) launched its first eBookstore outside of the U.S. in the UK, but it will have to step up the pace by quite a b… Read more »
A news distributor, a rubber tyre maker and a tech startup walk in to a bar… and conceive a way to let brands communicate on electronic pa… Read more »
In its first international launch, the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) eBookstore is now open for business in the UK. Australian and Canadian stores wil… Read more »
Publishers see transmedia–storytelling across a variety of platforms–as a key part of their future strategy: With many types of entertainm… Read more »
In order to clinch its purchase of 40 million customer names from bankrupt Borders, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) made a series of promises to… Read more »
Stephen Colbert added “truthiness” to the lexicon, but Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is surely the master of “mathiness”–fuzzy numbers-ish public sta… Read more »
– Bravo Digital Media Suejin Yang has been named VP of Bravo Digital Media. She’ll manage strategic development, content, operations and ne… Read more »
When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) introduced the first Kindle four years ago, the e-reader market barely existed and e-books were almost a novelty. S… Read more »
Pottermore, the interactive Harry Potter community site that recently launched in beta, was supposed to start its exclusive sales of Harry P… Read more »
I have tried out quite a few social news readers, and they all suffer from pretty much the same flaw: they give me more of the same. I will… Read more »
In recent months, several major literary agencies have added e-book publishing services for their clients–the largest so far being Trident… Read more »
When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) introduced the first Kindle four years ago, the e-reader market barely existed and e-books were almost a novelty. S… Read more »
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To this point, the companies that have tried to challenge Apple’s dominance of the tablet market have failed in head-to-head comparisons whe… Read more »
The Kindle Fire was the star of today’s Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) show but don’t ignore the retooled Kindle e-reader lineup. CEO Jeff Bezos knows… Read more »
Today Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) revealed its new Kindle lineup, including a touchscreen E Ink eReader and Amazon’s first color touchscreen tablet,… Read more »
A knock for Nook? Barnes & Noble’s share price fell 10 percent as Jeff Bezos announced not just a Kindle tablet but a revision to Amazon’s c… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) unveiled its new Kindle Fire this morning, and it will be priced at $199, well below Apple’s iPad, which dominates the s… Read more »
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A bankruptcy judge in New York approved Barnes & Noble’s $13.9 million purchase of Borders’ intellectual property, including its valuable cu… Read more »
Amazon’s long-awaited Android tablet appears to be just two days away from making its first public appearance, and a few details trickled ou… Read more »
Barnes & Noble’s $13.9 million purchase of Borders’ intellectual property assets is on hold after a federal judge said he needed more time t… Read more »
