It’s on — US sues Apple, publishers over e-book prices
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The Justice Department has at last filed an anti-trust complaint in New York against Apple and five publishers over an alleged price fixing conspiracy. Read more »
Thanks To E-Books, Publishers Find Flat Is The New Up
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Large book publishers’ most recent earnings reports reflect a new normal: Revenues are roughly flat, but profits are up — in large part due… Read more »
Ian Fleming Estate Reverses Course, Gives Up James Bond E-Book Rights
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Ian Fleming Publications attracted attention when, in 2010, it announced it would publish the James Bond e-books directly instead of selling… Read more »
Penguin UK, Economist Partner On E-Singles
Penguin UK and the Economist are partnering on a series of e-singles, “Penguin Economist Specials.” The partnership makes sense since Pengui… Read more »
Amazon’s Kindle Plays A Part In Penguin’s Library Decision
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Since Penguin announced yesterday that it is ending its partnership with OverDrive and will no longer provide e-books or digital audiobooks… Read more »
Random House Will Keep All Its E-Books In Libraries, With A Price Increase
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Random House is now the only big six publisher to allow unrestricted access to all of its e-books in libraries — and it said yesterday it w… Read more »
E-Singles: ‘Journalism’s Extraordinary Challenges In An Entirely New Place’
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Byliner recently announced that it has sold 100,000 original e-singles, and other publishers are finding similar success with the format: Th… Read more »
No More New Penguin Digital Audiobooks For Libraries, Either
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Hoping to skirt Penguin’s library e-book restrictions by checking out a hot new title as a digital audiobook instead? Sorry, that strategy w… Read more »
Which E-Books Are Most Borrowed From Libraries, And Why?
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OverDrive released its lists of the most-downloaded e-books from libraries in December 2011. These lists look pretty different from the curr… Read more »
How Publishers And Authors Are Promoting E-Books For The Holidays
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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 »
Stop Treating $9.99 As The Magic E-Book Price
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$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 »
Updated: Penguin Restores Library Lending To Kindle, But Not For New Ebooks
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Penguin is once again making its e-books available to libraries through Kindle, OverDrive reports. New Penguin e-books, however, remain unav… Read more »
Why Might A Publisher Pull Its E-Books From Libraries?
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Following yesterday’s news that Penguin, citing security concerns, is pulling its new e-books from libraries–and making none of them availa… Read more »
Penguin Pulls New E-Books From Libraries
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Citing unspecified “concerns about the security of our digital editions,” Penguin Group USA is pulling new e-books from libraries; in additi… Read more »
Self-Published Authors Sharply Criticize Penguin's Book Country
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Many popular self-published authors are coming down hard on the self-publishing services that Penguin added to community writing site Book C… Read more »
Penguin Adds Self-Publishing To Writing Community Site Book Country
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Aspiring writers come to Book Country, Penguin Group USA’s online genre fiction community, to post and workshop their romance, science ficti… Read more »
Penguin Launches 'Penguin Shorts' E-Singles Series
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Penguin is the latest publisher to test out e-singles with the launch of Penguin Shorts, an ongoing digital series of original fiction and n… Read more »
Bernstein: Pearson Should Sell Off FT Group And Penguin, Focus On Education
The FT and Penguin are two of the most recognized brands among those owned by media giant Pearson (NYSE: PSO). But should the company sell t… Read more »
Pearson’s Acquisition Of Borders Australia Can Go Forward
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Pearson (NYSE: PSO) Australia’s acquisition of REDGroup’s online business, including the Borders Australia website and the website of bookst… Read more »
Publisher Penguin Waddles Into Social Media Experiment With Peer Index
A little social media experiment is underway at the publishers Hamish Hamilton/Penguin UK: the publisher has tied up with the social media s… 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 »
Hachette, Penguin, Simon & Schuster Team Up With AOL For Book Site: Bookish
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Three major publishers are behind the latest effort to boost print and digital book reading. Bookish, backed by Hachette Book Group, Penguin… Read more »
Publishers, Waterstones Turn Book Discovery Network In To Retail Store
HMV (LSE: HMV), HarperCollins, Penguin and Random House are financing a new “social retail” service aiming to help readers find, buy and sha… Read more »
First Look: How Penguin Will Reinvent Books With iPad
As the race to be be ebook format of choice hots up, Penguin is making some bold, experimental bets. These first-look demos of forthcoming b… Read more »
EA Gets Into Digital Books With FLIPS Launch In U.K.
As if there wasn’t enough digital and e-book hysteria from the international Kindle launch … *Electronic Arts* is dipping its toe into dig… Read more »
