The Authors Guild weighs in on the news that the Department of Justice is investigating Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) and five of the big-six publisher… Read more »
Penguin Group, one of the “Big 5″ publishers caught up in a lawsuit over e-book pricing, says customers agreed not to sue them when they tur… Read more »
A court filing provides new insight into Apple’s version of events concerning an incident in which Steve Jobs told a reporter that “unhappy”… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) hasn’t made many friends in the traditional publishing world. Until now it’s sold Amazon Publishing e-books exclusively… Read more »
F+W Media is launching a new digital-only imprint, Prologue Books, that aims to reintroduce readers to previously out-of-print crime, sci-fi… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) released some select Kindle Owners’ Lending Library numbers today, aiming to position its KDP Select program as a good d… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) released some select Kindle Owners’ Lending Library numbers today, aiming to position its KDP Select program as a good d… Read more »
Amazon’s decision to yank almost 5,000 Kindle titles from distributor Independent Publishing Group after IPG refused to give the retailer be… Read more »
Updated: IPG’s full memo to publishers on page 2.
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has turned off the buy button on nearly 5,000 Kindle titles from dist… Read more »
When Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) released the Nook Tablet in November, CEO William Lynch called the Kindle Fire “deficient” in part because i… Read more »
Kindle may launch in Japan and Brazil in 2012, according to reports published in the last week. Read more »
Since Penguin announced yesterday that it is ending its partnership with OverDrive and will no longer provide e-books or digital audiobooks… Read more »
It would be dramatic to say that independent booksellers nationwide are boycotting Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing titles en masse — and hey… Read more »
Nancy Pearl, the famous librarian (and action figure!) who recently partnered with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) to republish a handful of out-of-prin… Read more »
A new report suggests that Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is opening a small, Kindle-focused retail store in Seattle to test whether the concept could… Read more »
The Kindle Touch WiFi is now available in some additional countries, but not the biggest international e-reading markets that already have t… Read more »
Canadian bookselling chain Indigo Books & Music is joining Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and Books-A-Million in their refusal to carry any Amaz… Read more »
Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that plastic case, other th… Read more »
Do Kindle Fire owners still like their devices now that they’ve had a few months to kick the tires? A new survey indicates that for the most… Read more »
Mobile advertising may not yet be something that Facebook has explored in its strategy to monetize its massive user base, and given the grow… Read more »
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) says unit sales of print books grew by “double digits” in Q4 compared to last year. That “is impressive given the shift… 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 »
Given Amazon’s reluctance to disclose hard numbers regarding the number of Kindles it has sold and the interest in the Kindle Fire as a tabl… Read more »
With the tablet market now overtaking PC sales, all eyes are on which platform will dominate this next generation of computing devices. A re… 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 »
‘Twas the season for tablets and e-readers, according to a new survey released Monday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. The num… 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 »
Games rank as the most popular form of mobile content today — 68 percent of tablet and smartphone app users who downloaded an app in the pa… Read more »
Not too long ago, grazing the magazine bins was a perk of going to a trade show. But consolidation and closures mean fewer publications — a… 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 »
Dell is not among the companies announcing a new tablet this week at the CES show in Las Vegas, but it made sure to keep its name in the air… Read more »
Back in July, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) and other content providers pulled the purchasing options from their iOS apps, in order to comply with App… 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 »
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 »
In a surprise development, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) has quietly resolved a lawsuit that alleges its Kindle Fire violates four patents related to… Read more »
The latest monthly figures from independent mobile ad network Jumptap reveal that Android has continued to solidify its lead as the most dom… Read more »
