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 »
New Study Shows E-Reader Ownership Surging Ahead Of Tablets
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A new Pew report shows that the number of U.S. adults who own a dedicated e-reader (like a Kindle or Nook) has doubled since November 2010,… Read more »
Our Pottermore.com Coverage In Links
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This week, author J.K. Rowling unveiled Pottermore.com, the exclusive e-bookstore for the Harry Potter series. Check out Laura Hazard Owen’s… Read more »
Pottermore.com’s Biggest Losers (Plus One Surprise Winner)
Pottermore.com is great news for Harry Potter fans, who have not been able to read the series in digital form until now; for J. K. Rowling,… Read more »
Gothamist Begins Experiment In Long-Form — And Well-Paying — Journalism
Who says no one wants to read long-form articles on the web? The flagship of local news and culture blog network Gothamist hopes to torpedo… Read more »
How Content Farms Are Hitting The E-Book Market
With Google (NSDQ: GOOG) clamping down on content farms, the attention of those looking to get rich quickly from churning out content is now… Read more »
Three Ways Pottermore.com Could Change Book Publishing
After a suspenseful buildup, J. K. Rowling has announced that Pottermore.com will be an e-bookstore, exclusively selling Harry Potter e-book… Read more »
In Run-Up To Kindle Lending Program, Libraries Beef Up E-Book Offerings
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The number of people that check out e-books from libraries is still relatively small–under 15 percent, according to a January Digital Book… Read more »
Two Weeks Into Kindle Sunshine Deals Promo, Higher-Priced E-books Rebound
With just one day remaining in the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle “Sunshine Deals” promotion, which deeply discounted 650 e-books to $2.99 or le… Read more »
New Kindle Series Uses Digital Tricks To Entice Tweens To Read The Classics
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A new digital-only series aims to get kids to read the classics by integrating them into modern adventure books. Booksurfers, a new adventur… Read more »
The Bestsellers: Creepy Vintage Photos Propel ‘Peculiar Children’
Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, published by independent publisher Quirk Books last week, hardly seems like an… Read more »
Waterstones’ E-books Supply Not Threatened By HMV Sell-Off
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The sale of UK bookseller Waterstones to Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut should not hamper its ability to sell electronic books. Read more »
Apple iBookstore News From The Week
Though iCloud got the most attention at WWMD, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) also announced some new iBookstore details. They include: Read more »
Kindle Christmas: Citi Analyst Predicts Sub-$100 Kindles By The Holidays
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We could see a $99 Kindle by Christmas, says Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney. In a research note, Mahaney predicts not only that Kindle and e… Read more »
A Quarter Of The Kindle Top 100 Owe Their Success To ‘Sunshine Deals’
As we wrote earlier today, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle’s Sunshine Deals promotion is already shaking up the Kindle bestseller list. How much?… Read more »
Amazon Rolls Out ‘Sunshine Deals’ For Publishers To Test E-Book Pricing
Are publishers taking the plunge into experimenting with e-book pricing? Today Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) quietly launched Kindle Sunshine Deals, a… Read more »
Comparing The Latest E-Readers — Our Chart
This year has been a busy one for e-readers. Just in the last five months, four new devices have been announced, including two last week. Pr… Read more »
What We Learned About The Book Industry This Week
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We’d expected that Liberty Media’s bid for Barnes & Noble would be the most talked-about topic this week at BookExpo America, the largest tr… Read more »
New Stats: E-Reader Usage Growing Much Faster Than Previously Predicted
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Good news for the companies that announced new e-readers this week: The number of people in the U.S. who own an dedicated e-reader (not an i… Read more »
B&N Says Foreign-Language E-Books Selling ‘Outrageously’ Well in U.S.
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Selling foreign-language print books in the United States has always been tough due to high prices, hurdles at customs and the difficulties… Read more »
Where Book Publishers Can Find More Digital Talent
Can publishers develop the skills they need to survive in a digital world–social marketing, search engine optimization, app development–fr… Read more »
@ BEA: Is Google eBooks Planning A Rental Service?
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What’s next from Google (NSDQ: GOOG) eBooks? An e-book rental service, perhaps? Scott Dougall, Google Books Director of Product Management,… Read more »
Update: Barnes & Noble Announces New Nook; Amazon Responds with Cheaper 3G
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Barnes & Noble’s new Nook, the Simple Touch Reader, aims to compete with the paperback. Following a couple of weeks of rumors (and an intern… Read more »
@BEA: Do Book Publishers Really Know How To Sell Direct To Consumers?
“Let’s be honest,” said Tom Turvey, Google’s Director of Strategic Partnerships. “Publishers have never really cared about their consumers.”… Read more »
Amazon Hires Publishing Industry Veteran Kirshbaum To Launch New Imprint
Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) has taken its most aggressive step yet toward competing head-on with traditional publishers: It’s hired Larry Kirshb… Read more »
Kobo’s New E-Reader Aims to Turn Reading Into a Game
Websites like Goodreads have tried to make reading a more social experience by allowing users to keep track of and rate books they’ve read,… Read more »
The Bestsellers: Out-of-Print Romance Title Lands New Profits As E-Book
Don’t Say a Word by bestselling romance/suspense novelist Barbara Freethy was published by Penguin/NAL imprint Signet in 2005, but soon wen… Read more »
Where Now For Waterstone’s In The E-Book Migration?
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HMV’s sale of Waterstone’s, one of the UK’s leading booksellers, removes some weight from around HMV’s neck, but doesn’t necessarily set Wat… Read more »
HMV Sells Bookseller Waterstone’s For £53 Million
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HMV (LSE: HMV) has sold its Waterstone’s book chain to a fund controlled by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut for £53 ($85.79)m. Read more »
Updated: Liberty Media Offers $1 Billion For Barnes & Noble; Would Buy 70 Percent
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Bankrupt Borders needs a sale the most but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS), which put itself in play last August, is the book retailer with a ser… Read more »
Amazon Hasn’t Yet Reached UK Digital Books Tipping Point
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) hasn’t reached a digital tipping point everywhere – its disclosure today flags the quick transition to e-books in the U.… Read more »
France Lets Book Publishers Fix Minimum E-book Prices
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“French publishers can rejoice,” reports the country’s L’Express. “They should now be able to impose a single selling price for all digital… Read more »
Updated: Amazon Now Selling More Kindle Books Than All Print Books
I’m not big on terms like “tipping point” but it’s a moment worth noting: Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is selling more e-books on Amazon.com than pri… Read more »
Publishers’ Social Book Discovery Site aNobii Nearing Relaunch
A new electronic book discovery and retail service jointly owned by publishers and a retailer expects to beat similar Bookish to market by l… Read more »
Book Business Twists In To New Shapes To Face Its First Digital Challenge
The book publishing sector has woken up to the revolution that is now beginning to quickly redefine it – and is falling over itself to stake… Read more »
Kindle Revenue Estimates Jump, As Tablet Talk Continues
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Calling the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle “the most compelling e-book device” on the market, Caris & Co. analyst Sandeep Aggarwal estimates in… Read more »
Video Interview: Lulu’s CEO Changes Direction As E-books Take Shape
Lulu was founded in 2002 to let independent authors self-publish their books. But, with the e-books market now taking off, self-publishing i… Read more »
E-book Sales Are Exploding And Hurting Paperbacks, Publishers Say
All manner of metrics in publishing point to one fact – e-book sales are now beginning to take off in a big way. Read more »
Bookish CEO: ‘Thrilled To Have A Dual Revenue Stream’
Technically, Bookish doesn’t have any revenue stream yet. The joint venture of Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group (USA), and Simon & Schuste… Read more »
Apple iPad Still The Tablet Leader; Tablet Use Eats Into Other Device Usage
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A few stats and numbers released today underscore the dominance that the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad has among those that have purchased media t… Read more »
