About half an hour before Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) announced Q4 earnings this afternoon, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) released a new statement sayi… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) disappointed investors by reporting Q4 2011 revenues of $17.4 billion this afternoon, up 35 percent from a year ago but… Read more »
E-reader usage is growing beyond a group of early adopters, but new stats suggest that consumers are also increasingly resistant to buying a… Read more »
What do To Kill A Mockingbird, A Wrinkle in Time and Little House on the Prairie series have in common, besides being beloved? None of them… Read more »
Digital publisher and multimedia company Open Road is partnering with investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica on multiple e-books. Read more »
Two separate reports published this weekend suggest that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is close to a partnership with UK bookstore chain Waters… Read more »
Book-centered social networking site Goodreads, which allows users to keep records of the books they read and share the information with oth… Read more »
Bloomberg Businessweek’s January 30 cover story, “Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Wants to Burn the Book Business,” includes rare interviews with Larry… Read more »
Amazon’s early data from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, which allows Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) prime members who are also Kindle owners to bo… Read more »
Apple’s new big play for the education textbook market is a big letdown, according to a developer for one of the leading interactive kids’ e… Read more »
Booksellers should not expect to be visited by a friendly Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing sales rep anytime soon. Rather, in an agreement ann… Read more »
Byliner recently announced that it has sold 100,000 original e-singles, and other publishers are finding similar success with the format: Th… Read more »
Last year was widely perceived to be a year of outrageous e-book growth, but some new research suggests otherwise. According to new data fro… Read more »
While most children, like their parents, still encounter Sesame Street primarily on their TV, the 43-year-old nonprofit brand now attracts 1… Read more »
Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) hopes to get a Nook device in the hands of every person in your family, except maybe your baby. Babies, it turns… Read more »
The children’s and young adult e-book market faces special challenges not shared by the adult market, new research shows. And teens are slow… Read more »
The battle for the college digital textbook market — including startups like Inkling and Kno — gets a fair amount of attention. But the K-… Read more »
At Apple’s event today in New York, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) unveiled iBooks2, a new version of its iBooks software that is tailored to interactiv… Read more »
Publishers are pulling e-books and digital audiobooks from libraries, but the demand for those materials is increasing exponentially: New st… Read more »
Hoping to skirt Penguin’s library e-book restrictions by checking out a hot new title as a digital audiobook instead? Sorry, that strategy w… Read more »
Book publishers don’t often share much information about their digital revenues, but Naperville, Ill.-based independent publisher Sourcebook… Read more »
Dorling Kindersley, the division of Penguin that publishes children, travel and reference titles, made a strong case for how it is moving to… Read more »
Plagiarized editions for sale in Amazon’s Kindle store show how the company is still adapting to the world of original content creation. At… Read more »
The average price of a self-published Kindle top-100 bestseller continues to drop, but a new look at these titles’ performance in 2011 sugge… Read more »
Coliloquy, a Palo Alto-based publisher focusing on interactive fiction for adults, launches its first four serial titles today on Kindle. Th… Read more »
As Thursday approaches, more details (or rumors) are leaking out about what Apple’s education announcement will entail: opinion appears to b… Read more »
Dozens of commercial book collections, including the entire Harry Potter series, have been downloaded for free from Google’s official Androi… Read more »
USA Today is reporting a post-holiday e-book “surge,” with 32 of the top 50 titles on its most recent list selling more copies in digital fo… Read more »
Depressing new research by Forrester indicates that book publishers are becoming increasingly disheartened about the state of the industry:… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing is launching a new series, “Book Lust Rediscoveries,” curated by librarian and NPR commentator Nancy Pearl. P… Read more »
It is a busy week for digital media news in the Far East, ahead of the Chinese New Year on January 23. Notably, more new e-book services are… Read more »
Some reports today suggest that Kindle Fire sales will cut into sales of Amazon’s other Kindles. For a variety of reasons, though, it’s too… Read more »
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is putting a big bet on China, where its products and services have proven hugely popular, but that could also leave it e… Read more »
In a *CNBC* interview today, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch told David Faber, “Whatever we do, we will continue to have a tigh… Read more »
Recent interviews shed light on how the antitrust cases against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and book publishers will unfold. The e-book controversy w… Read more »
Three years after she oversaw the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s transition to an online-only newspaper, Michelle Nicolosi is leaving the Hear… Read more »
Buried in the middle of a holiday sales report, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) announced that it will “pursue strategic exploratory work to sepa… Read more »
E-reader maker Kobo says it got a 10x uplift in new global e-book customers this holiday period, compared with earlier in the year, as new o… Read more »
OverDrive released its lists of the most-downloaded e-books from libraries in December 2011. These lists look pretty different from the curr… Read more »
The rumor mill is hard at work today following the news that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) will hold an iBookstore-related event in New York City towar… Read more »
