Kindle Compromise: E-Reader Subs Will Get NYTimes.com Access
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The three-tiered NYTimes.com (NYSE: NYT) digital pay plan launched today left e-reader subs out of the various bundles but a reverse twist w… Read more »
Barnes And Noble Set To Update Nook Color With More Apps, Flash Video
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Barnes and Noble’s Nook e-reader will soon look more and more like a full-fledged Android tablet when a software update is released this spr… Read more »
McGraw-Hill And Pearson Back iPad Textbook Startup Inkling
Top education publishers McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP) and Pearson (NYSE: PSO) have invested in Inkling, a startup that is adding uber-interactive… Read more »
What The Collapse Of The Google Books Deal Really Means
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For all the growth in the digital book market over the last few years, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Books is still the only project with the outsize… Read more »
Bonnier Spins Out Its Mag+ Tablet Concept
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Swedish publisher Bonnier, which introduced its Mag+ concept for iPad magazines last year, has now spun the idea out in to separate business… Read more »
Amazon Kindle: Bundled Free In UK, And The iPad Effect
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Looks like Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is looking to cast its retail net ever wider in the hunt for new Kindle users: the e-reading device is now be… Read more »
Hearst’s Carey: Tablets Will Provide 25 Percent Of Magazines’ Circulation
The notion that the iPad was going to save newspapers and magazines had been diminishing somewhat lately, especially since publishers have t… Read more »
E-Books Seller Kobo Raises A New Round Of Funding
Kobo, the Borders-backed e-books seller, has raised a new round of funding led by what the company says is a “major institutional investor.”… Read more »
Whoever Builds A Good Tool To Help Us Find New Books To Read Will Get Rich
Kevin Smokler is the co-founder/CEO of BookTour.com, an Amazon-funded startup which offers affordable software tools for authors. He is base… Read more »
EU Regulators Raid Publishers, Seeking Answers About High e-Book Prices
E-book prices are sometimes mysteriously high-they can cost as much or even more than their print equivalents for popular titles. And now Eu… Read more »
Apple’s Jobs Makes Surprise Appearance; Updates iOS Progress
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Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs made a surprise appearance at an event that’s expected to see the launch of the iPad 2, as he updated atte… Read more »
Barnes & Noble Settles Legal Clash With Spring Design
Spring Design, which manufactures the Alex Reader, sued Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) back in 2009, saying the book seller had taken many of th… Read more »
Random House Changes E-Book Pricing Just In Time For New iPad Launch
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UPDATE: Random House confirmed this morning that it will make its full catalog of 17,000 e-books available on Apple’s iBookstore.
Publishe… Read more »
Concerned Publishers Group Says ‘Apple Is Not The Only Offer On The Table’
Publishers from across Europe will convene at a hotel at London’s Heathrow Airport on Thursday morning to discuss their response to Apple’s… Read more »
Interview: John Menzies Reboots Its Digital Publishing Business
John Menzies is returning to digital publishing by launching a consultancy agency to jump aboard booming publisher interest in digital editi… Read more »
So Much For Apple’s Flirtation With Openness
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Today, the *New York Times* is reporting that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is changing its policy for allowing apps to deliver content that was paid f… Read more »
LibreDigital Raises $4 Million More
LibreDigital, which helps publishers deliver their content to e-readers and to digital bookstores, has raised an additional $4 million. The… Read more »
Slide Deck: Lagardere’s Tablet Publishing Strategy And Apple Talks
French media conglomerate Lagardere, currently selling its Hachette Filippachi to Hearst’s NatMags, says 25 to 30 percent of people who down… Read more »
‘Open’ Textbooks Provider Flat World Inks Berteslmann Investment
Germany’s Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments is leading a $15 million investment in to New York-based Flat World Knowledge, which gives a… Read more »
Scribd Raises $13 Million To Support Mobile Moves, Product Expansion
Social publishing site Scribd has closed $13 million third round, as it looks toward rolling out new mobile features and additional products… Read more »
IDC: 17 Million Tablets Shipped Globally In 2010 — Most Were iPads
The number of media tablets that shipped in Q3 grew by 45.1 percent, says analyst IDC, which is to say the introduction of Apple’s iPad was… Read more »
Why Online Retailers Will Squeeze Out Publishers In The Book Business
Matt Shatz is currently Head of Strategic Content Relations for Nokia (NYSE: NOK). Previously, he was Vice President of Digital for Random H… Read more »
Plastic Logic Is Raising $700 Million To Open A New Factory In Russia
Plastic Logic is raising $700 million to open a new factory in Russia that will produce “next-generation plastic displays.” The company had… Read more »
B&N Adds Nook Kids iPad App; 100 Interactive Titles At Launch
Just before Christmas, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) quietly released its Nook Kids childrens e-books app for Apple’s iPad. The new app came a… Read more »
Parsing Pew: What The Latest Online Content Buying Numbers Really Say
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You are about to see a host of references to a new batch of numbers from the Pew Internet & American Life project pop up all over the place.… Read more »
Amazon Brags Kindle 3 Is Its ‘Biggest Seller’ Ever But Still Mum On Figures
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After what has shaped up as a pretty promising Christmas holiday season, Amazon says that its third-generation Kindle is now the bestselling… Read more »
The Ultimate Effect Of Google E-Books: A New Ad-Supported Model For Books
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Brace for impact. What I’m about to say is going to make a lot of people angry, including some of the people at Google (NSDQ: GOOG) who are… Read more »
Google eBookstore Finally Opens For Business
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After a series of delays, the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) eBookstore is finally open for business. The initial plans for June 2009 called for 500,00… Read more »
Google Says Its E-Books Store Will Launch By Year-End
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Google’s forthcoming e-books store now has an official launch date: The end of the year. Company executives had initially promised in June 2… Read more »
Why The Digital Book Business Is Going To Be Huge, Part 2
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Time (NYSE: TWX) to get my hands a bit dirty. Last week I posted an eBook forecast with a brief explanation of why the book business may com… Read more »
Why The Book Business May Soon Be The Most Digital Of All Media Industries
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Consider it an inauguration of sorts, a celebration of the e-book industry becoming a member of the major media club just as digital music a… Read more »
Survey: Publishers Bet On Sponsorships Over Banners For Mobile Ad Revenue
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Publishers are looking to a variety of revenue streams to support their expanding mobile efforts, but the expectations that sponsorships bei… Read more »
Student E-Reader Startup Kno Hires A New CFO
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Kno, the heavily-backed startup that is developing e-readers designed for students, has hired a new CFO. The company tells us it has brought… Read more »
B&N Unveils Nook Color; Claims ‘Largest Digital Newsstand’
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Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) officially upped its e-reader challenge this afternoon during a press conference at its Union Square store. The c… Read more »
What The Nook Color Means For Amazon, Sony
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Today, amid the kind of rumor and speculation that is more typical of a Silicon Valley announcement, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) unveiled its… Read more »
Pearson Digital: FT Passes 180,000 Digital Subs; Penguin Offsets Print Drop
Digital subscriptions are up more than 50 percent for the Financial Times so far this year, passing the 180,000 mark. The numbers are includ… Read more »
WSJ Doesn’t Buy Into Amazon’s ‘Buy Once, Read Everywhere’ Plans
Earlier this month, I told an Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) VP the aspect that bothered me most as a Kindle user was the inability to access my subscr… Read more »
Scribd Rolls Out Apture’s In-Page Browsing Feature Across Half Its Library
Social publisher Scribd is partnering with Apture to create mini-webpages offering videos, photos and other web info within the site’s publi… Read more »
Amazon Expands Publishing Horizons With Short-Form Kindle Singles
Locked into a pricing battle with some publishers over the pricing of e-books with print counterparts, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is expanding its… Read more »
Amazon Starts Offering UK Publishers Higher Kindle Royalties
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UK authors and publishers can now choose to get a 70 percent royalty from ebooks sold via Amazon.co.uk’s Kindle Digital Text Platform.
That… Read more »
