Western Europe Sees Huge Shift Toward E-Books
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Europe has lagged behind the U.S. in widespread adoption of e-books, but a new report suggests that they are finally taking off. The e-book… Read more »
RR Donnelley Continues Digital Expansion With Purchase Of LibreDigital
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Another interesting digital acquisition by R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Co., the Chicago publishing services company that picked up Steve Brill an… Read more »
Amazon Is Finally Cracking Down On Kindle Spammers
Folks looking to make a quick buck have turned to selling spammy and stolen e-books on the Kindle Store. A few months after the problem firs… Read more »
Google Plus Is Better Than Facebook For Book Sharing
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If you want to share what you’re reading with your social network, there are a couple different ways to do it, none of which are totally str… Read more »
Kno Lets Students Read E-Textbooks On Facebook And The Web
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is not the only company to make an HTML5-based app announcement today: E-textbook company Kno is now allowing students t… Read more »
New Stats: Book Publishing Is Growing; E-Book Revs and Sales Up Over 1000%
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One positive story in a week of terrible economic news: BookStats, a new annual statistical survey of raw sales revenue and unit data provid… Read more »
In Savvy Nook Promotion, Barnes & Noble Reminds Us It’s A Publisher, Too
Barnes & Noble’s last Nook promotion was best described as lame (so we did), but the company’s new back-to-school offer is smarter: Buy any… Read more »
Why Isn’t Kindle Promoting Its Social Networking Features?
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Twitter is abuzz over the discovery of Amazon’s “new” Kindle social network, but these features–sharing notes, following and finding users… Read more »
QR Codes For Print Books
If you prefer a few digital extras with your Chekhov, you’re in luck: Independent Brooklyn-based publisher Melville House is launching a ser… Read more »
How I Got Early Access To Pottermore.com
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It’s the sixth day of the contest to get early access to Pottermore.com, J. K. Rowling’s exclusive, interactive Harry Potter e-bookstore, wh… Read more »
Guardian Enters E-Singles Space With Phone-Hacking Scandal E-Book
The Guardian is the latest news outlet to get into e-singles publishing with “Guardian Shorts,” a series of “detailed guides to topical news… Read more »
Updated: Kindle’s Free Sci-Fi Mag Hits #1, But Policy Confuses Shoppers
Amazon’s attempt to reach out to science fiction fans is working: Less than 24 hours after it was released, the free digest edition of Fanta… Read more »
iPad Textbook Publisher Inkling Raises $17 Million
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Just in time for the back-to-school season, iPad interactive textbook publisher Inkling has secured $17 million in Series B funding from inv… Read more »
Kindle Tests New Subscription Model On Science Fiction Fans
Science fiction/fantasy is one of the fastest-growing e-book genres, and Amazon’s Kindle Store is wooing fans with a new offer: A free subsc… Read more »
Pottermore: Please Stop Selling Beta Accounts On eBay
With at least 25 Pottermore beta accounts now for sale on eBay (NSDQ: EBAY), the site has posted a notice: Cut it out! Read more »
Kindle Library Lending To Launch In September?
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Nook, Kobo and *Sony* Reader users can borrow e-books from libraries, but Kindle has been a holdout. Now it appears that library lending for… Read more »
Contest For Early Pottermore Access Leads To Massive Traffic & eBay Action
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Harry Potter e-books site Pottermore.com officially launches in October, but a “Magical Quill” contest that grants one million winners acces… Read more »
The Bestsellers: Michael Connelly And The Art Of E-Book Price Cutting
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How did a book first published in 1992 suddenly land at the top of the Kindle and Nook bestseller lists in 2011? Read more »
Our Guide To E-Singles
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E-singles are one of the hottest new publishing trends–with everyone from David Baldacci and Jodi Picoult to Byliner and Slate testing them… Read more »
As Amazon & Mondadori Announce Agreement, Kindle’s Next Stop Could Be Italy
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Italy’s largest book publisher, Mondadori, is making thousands of e-books available through Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) for the first time. Could an… Read more »
Kindle And Nook Target The Back-To-School Set
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Toys ‘R’ Us is a popular place to buy things like Lego kits, Crayola markers and Barbie tricycles. But the chain’s latest addition skews mor… Read more »
Kindle 3G With Special Offers A Bestseller As Amazon Sales Soar 51% In Q2
Fueled by “accelerating” Kindle sales–especially of the Kindle 3G with Special Offers, which was released just two weeks ago but has alread… Read more »
In Response To Apple Restrictions, Kobo Releasing HTML5 App
After being forced to remove the bookstore from its iOS app, Kobo has begun working on a web-based HTML5 app to be released later this year. Read more »
Amazon Says Harry Potter E-Books Will Be Available On Kindle
Following a spate of rumors over the past couple days on various blogs (not this one) that the Kindle will be Harry Potter-less, an Amazon (… Read more »
Updated: Borders’ Downfall And What’s Next
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Why did Borders fail and what does its shuttering mean for Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), book publishers and others? Here is our FAQ. Read more »
Pottermore Teams Up With Google
When you get the chance to include “Pottermore” and “Google” in the same headline, you take it, even though the news they’re announcing is k… Read more »
Promised Kindle App For HP TouchPad Finally Arrives
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You can now add Kindle to the relatively short list of apps available for the HP (NYSE: HPQ) TouchPad, the company announced on the HP Palm… Read more »
Scribd Aims For Niche Between Instapaper And Pulse With Reader App Float
Document sharing site Scribd is expanding its mobile publishing efforts with the introduction of Float, a free, Instapaper-like iPhone app t… Read more »
Amazon’s Tablet Price Strategy: Go Low(-er Than The iPad)
Here’s one way Amazon’s new tablet can compete against the iPad: Price. Nobody claims the iPad is cheap. And the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) tablet… Read more »
Stanford Math Professor Tests A New Book Publishing Equation
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When a section was cut from Stanford mathematics professor Keith Devlin’s new book The Man Of Numbers, Devlin could have pitched it as an ar… Read more »
Kobo Launches Germany’s Largest E-Bookstore, Beating Out Amazon
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Kobo may lag behind the Kindle in the U.S., but not in Germany. Tomorrow, in the first in a series of international rollouts for the company… Read more »
Google Integrates Its eBookstore Into A Little-Known E-Reader
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The Google (NSDQ: GOOG) eBookstore has yet to become a dominant player in the e-book market, but it is hoping that the launch of the new iri… Read more »
IDC: Nook Color Leading E-Reader Sales For First Time Ever, As Tablets Lag
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Kindle’s sales are suffering from Amazon’s lack of a color offering, at least that’s the read from a new e-reader report released this after… Read more »
Updated: Kindle and Nook NYTimes.com Subscribers Finally Get Digital Access
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Over three months after announcing that Kindle New York Times subscribers would “soon” also have free access to NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) the… Read more »
A New Batch Of Digital Picture Books Comes To Tablets
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Tablets and color e-readers offer a brighter palette for kids’ e-books–and an opportunity for publishers. HarperCollins is the latest to lo… Read more »
Here’s How A Subscription Service For E-books Could Work
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Science fiction and fantasy publishers have been on the front lines of experimentation with e-book pricing and promotions. Now sci-fi/fantas… Read more »
Tablets Are For Men, E-Readers Are For Women? So The Research (And Ads) Say
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A recent Fox News article asking, “So are men iPads and women Nooks?” raised my hackles….especially when the piece went on to say, “Nooks… Read more »
Update: Amazon The Consolidator Gobbles Up The Book Depository
Amazon looks like it might be trying to beef up its long tail cred with some direct in-house expertise, rather than simply relying on its th… Read more »
Poll: Plenty Of E-Book Shoppers Buy Directly From Author Or Publisher
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E-retailers like Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) are still the primary places that people buy e-books. But publishers and… Read more »
Barnes & Noble: Buy A Nook, We’ll Give You Some Lame E-Books
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Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which is struggling with lower in-store sales, has a new promotional offer: Bring an old e-reader into a store,… Read more »
