Amazon’s desire to tell the world how well its redesigned Kindle devices are selling keeps bumping up against its inability to deal in real… Read more »
The Long Tail is Chris Anderson’s brilliant coinage. If you’re not up to speed on it, here you go.
Well, the long tail has hit the book bus… Read more »
HarperCollins is suing digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media for copyright infringement over the digital rights to Jean Craighead Geo… Read more »
This is the second in a series of posts over the next week that will highlight key people, companies and trends to watch in 2012 in the sect… Read more »
The newest statistics from the Association of American Publishers show that e-books saw triple-digit percentage growth in October, compared… Read more »
I asked publishers and authors how they’re promoting their e-books for the holidays and got answers from bundling and free samplers to Kindl… Read more »
Digital music is now mainstream, thanks in part to the MP3. Will the e-book market be next to produce a one-size-fits-all format-a format th… Read more »
When you unwrap your new Kindle on Christmas morning and are wondering what to read first, may I suggest Her Royal Majesty’s Christmas Day s… Read more »
The decision by major publishers to strike a pricing deal with Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has been the source of speculation and several antitrust i… Read more »
This is the second in a series of posts over this week that looks at the most significant developments of this year in the sectors that we c… Read more »
Condé Nast cooking site Epicurious is selling Random House digital cookbooks that users can import into their “digital recipe boxes.” Howev… Read more »
Ahead of the release of the Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks, J. K. Rowling’s Pottermore.com is running a survey on reading habit… Read more »
Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader will hit the UK “in the not too distant future,” a company VP said yesterday. The Kindle and Kobo are already… Read more »
$9.99 is often treated as a magic price–the cost of a New York Times bestseller on Kindle back in the good old days, before big-six publish… Read more »
If print book costs major on distributing boxes of dead trees, what price the e-book fulfilment sector? Read more »
Though the e-book phenomenon is now taking off around the world, Chinese e-reader sales actually fell 5.1 percent, according to Analysys Int… Read more »
Andrew Rhomberg thinks discovering new books online isn’t much fun. It’s great if you already know what you’re looking for, but if you’re ho… Read more »
Longform journalism site Byliner has sold over 100,000 of its “Byliner Originals” since launching the program in April, says CEO John Tayman… Read more »
Seeing “digital devices as another canvas for kids to share their originality and creative ideas,” Crayola is partnering with interactive st… Read more »
I love talking about the things I enjoy using. The emerging ecosystem in which a bunch of smart people curate long form journalism is defini… Read more »
When Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) launched the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library last month, it contained around 5,000 traditionally published titles. J… Read more »
Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is blurring the lines between the $199 Nook Color and $249 Nook Tablet with a major update for the Color, adding… Read more »
In the mushrooming controversy over e-books, it’s easy to understand the publishers’ motives. But what about Apple? (NSDQ: AAPL) Did the com… Read more »
Book publisher John Wiley & Sons’ professional/trade book division made $9 (£5.85) million from e-book sales in the second quarter of fisca… Read more »
As rumored, self-published authors who agree to make their e-books available exclusively on Kindle for 90 days are now eligible to include t… Read more »
The Chinese e-commerce site Dangdang (NYSE:DANG) is set to follow in the footsteps of Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) (NASDAQ:AMZN) and its Kindle when… Read more »
It’s been a week to forget for publishers after both the Justice Department and the European Commission announced investigations into e-book… Read more »
This Saturday, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is running a promotion that is making a lot of people very mad: Use the company’s Price Check mobile app… Read more »
With the release of its color-screened, picture-book-friendly Kindle Fire, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is expanding into publishing books for a new… Read more »
The book is no longer a book. This charming iPad remake of Paddington Bear goes way beyond early “interactive” conversions of linear texts b… Read more »
After carrying out unannounced inspections at the companies back in March, the European Commission is now starting a formal antitrust invest… Read more »
In an interview with Publishers Weekly, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) says it will double the number of original titles it publishes next year, to 400… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) recently gave Kindle-owning Prime members a new perk: The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, which allows them to borrow a… Read more »
Longform journalism site Byliner kicked off its narrative nonfiction “Byliner Originals” publishing program this past spring, with Jon Kraka… Read more »
When we last heard from James Frey, he was releasing a YA novel with a soundtrack. Now his book packaging company, Full Fathom Five, is laun… Read more »
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 »
