Penguin UK, Economist Partner On E-Singles
Penguin UK and the Economist are partnering on a series of e-singles, “Penguin Economist Specials.” The partnership makes sense since Pengui… Read more »
With KDP Select, Amazon Gains Authors’ Exclusivity — Cheap
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) released some select Kindle Owners’ Lending Library numbers today, aiming to position its KDP Select program as a good d… Read more »
With KDP Select, Amazon Gains Authors' Exclusivity — Cheap
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) released some select Kindle Owners’ Lending Library numbers today, aiming to position its KDP Select program as a good d… Read more »
Cudo Blames Vendor For Pirated E-Book Deal, Grosses AUD $230k
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Cudo, the Microsoft-backed Australian daily deal site that offered a $99 Chinese e-reader bundled with a CD of pirated e-books (Stephen King… Read more »
Who Decides What Gets Sold In The Bookstore?
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We can probably agree that the local supermarket has no moral or ethical or business obligation to sell cherry-flavored Cap’n Crunch. If the… Read more »
Microsoft-Backed Daily Deal Site Sells E-Reader Bundled With Pirated Titles
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Australian daily deal site Cudo, which is backed by Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), has a great deal for you if you like pirated e-books. Stephen Ki… Read more »
Publisher EDC Pulls All Its Books From Amazon
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Tulsa, OK-based children’s book publisher Educational Development Corporation will no longer sell any of its titles on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN),… Read more »
New Stats: 2011 Was Good For E-Books, Not So Good For Print
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The Association of American Publishers closes out calendar year 2011 today with a round of new stats on print and digital books. Publishers’… Read more »
Harry Potter E-Books Will Be In Libraries
J. K. Rowling’s Pottermore still has not officially launched, but the Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks sold exclusively through t… Read more »
Pearson Sees Digital Income Beating Print Publishing In 2012
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Pearson’s digital revenue grew 18 percent to £2 ($3.17) billion (a third of the total) through 2011, as its book publisher Penguin’s e-book… Read more »
Google Scales Back E-Book Affiliates Program, Drops Some Users
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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is cutting back on the e-book affiliates program it launched in June. Read more »
Little, Brown Gets Print And Digital Rights For J.K. Rowling’s New Novel
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J. K. Rowling is writing a new book, for adults, but she’s not keeping the digital rights for herself as she did with the Harry Potter books… Read more »
Why Amazon’s Kindle Battle With IPG Matters
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Amazon’s decision to yank almost 5,000 Kindle titles from distributor Independent Publishing Group after IPG refused to give the retailer be… Read more »
Informa To Launch E-Book Portal As B2B Publishers Push Toward Digital
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Two business information publishers are reporting improving fortunes after pushing their print media portfolio toward digital subscription o… Read more »
Update: Amazon Yanks 5,000 Kindle Titles In Fight Over Terms
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Updated: IPG’s full memo to publishers on page 2.
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has turned off the buy button on nearly 5,000 Kindle titles from dist… Read more »
Apps Are ‘Huge’ For Barnes & Noble
Seeking to advance the narrative that the Nook Tablet is a true multimedia tablet and not just a big expensive e-reader, Barnes & Noble (NYS… Read more »
Barnes & Noble Misses Estimates, Though In-Store Sales Rise Slightly
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Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) hopes to advance a narrative of momentum and the power of bricks-and-mortar bookstores in its third-quarter earni… Read more »
B&N Comes Down To Kindle Fire’s Level With 8 GB, $199 Nook Tablet
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Hoping to compete against the $199 Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) has a new $199 tablet, the not-so-catchily-named Nook Tablet–8 G… Read more »
Open Road Responds To HarperCollins E-Book Lawsuit
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Open Road Media responded today to the lawsuit that HarperCollins filed against it in December over the digital rights to Jean Craighead Geo… Read more »
Book Discovery: How Many ‘Touchpoints’ To Purchase?
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Social reading site Goodreads says the primary way its users discover new books to read is through search. Read more »
Indie Bookseller On E-Books: ‘I Don’t Think We’ll Ever Make Money On Them’
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Independent bookstore are unlikely to ever make money from e-books, in the opinion of Praveen Madar of San Francisco independent bookstore K… Read more »
Updated: Book Publishers Force Down Piracy Sites
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Update: Andi Sporkin of the Association of American Publishers contacted me shortly after this story was published. She says the publishers… Read more »
Free Interactive E-Book Publishing Platform — From Inkling, Not Apple
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Startup iPad publisher Inkling is launching a free, cloud-based, interactive e-book publishing platform, Inkling Habitat. That may sounds a… Read more »
Amazon Kindle To Japan And Brazil This Year?
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Kindle may launch in Japan and Brazil in 2012, according to reports published in the last week. Read more »
Amazon’s Kindle Plays A Part In Penguin’s Library Decision
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Since Penguin announced yesterday that it is ending its partnership with OverDrive and will no longer provide e-books or digital audiobooks… Read more »
Digital Downloads Jumped 26% In 2011, Led By E-Books
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Users are downloading more e-books, music, TV shows and movies than ever: Digital content and subscriptions were the fastest-growing retail… Read more »
Indie Booksellers All Yanking Amazon Titles? Not Exactly
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It would be dramatic to say that independent booksellers nationwide are boycotting Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing titles en masse — and hey… Read more »
Google Books Lawsuit Lurches Forward
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The fate of Google’s massive book scanning project has been up in the air since a legal settlement collapsed last year. New court filings th… Read more »
Beloved Librarian Who Signed With Amazon: ‘The Vehemence Surprised Me’
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Nancy Pearl, the famous librarian (and action figure!) who recently partnered with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) to republish a handful of out-of-prin… Read more »
Another Tech Blogger Launches An E-Book Venture
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Does three make a trend? In recent months, both former Gawker editor Emily Gould and GigaOm’s Michael Wolf launched their own e-book venture… Read more »
Uneven E-book Growth Sees Lagardere Book Sales Slim
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Global holiday-quarter books revenue dipped by 3.8 percent at Hachette operator Lagardere Publishing despite booming western e-book sales, t… Read more »
An Amazon Store In Seattle?
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A new report suggests that Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is opening a small, Kindle-focused retail store in Seattle to test whether the concept could… Read more »
Kindle Touch Now Shipping Abroad–But Not To UK/Germany/Spain/France/Italy
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The Kindle Touch WiFi is now available in some additional countries, but not the biggest international e-reading markets that already have t… Read more »
Another Chain Says It Won’t Carry Amazon Books, But Does It Matter?
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Canadian bookselling chain Indigo Books & Music is joining Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and Books-A-Million in their refusal to carry any Amaz… Read more »
Ebook Sales Are Being Driven By Downmarket Genre Fiction
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Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that plastic case, other th… Read more »
Apple Clarifies: We Don’t Own The Content You Put Into iBooks Author
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When Apple first released its free iBooks Author software, some were upset about its end-user licensing agreement, which states that works c… Read more »
Books-A-Million Won’t Carry Amazon Titles, Either
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Books-A-Million — the nation’s second largest bookstore chain after Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) — announced today that, like B&N, it will n… Read more »
Random House Will Keep All Its E-Books In Libraries, With A Price Increase
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Random House is now the only big six publisher to allow unrestricted access to all of its e-books in libraries — and it said yesterday it w… Read more »
New Stats: E-Book Growth Slows As Children’s Hardcover Jumps
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The newest statistics from the Association of American Publishers show that e-book growth slowed somewhat in November, though it’s still hig… Read more »
Why Some Book Buyers Are Increasingly Resistant To E-Readers
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Book marketing firm Verso Advertising recently found that over half of book buyers say they are “not at all likely” to purchase an e-reader… Read more »
