This weekly feature tells the backstory of how one e-book became a bestseller, and highlights bestselling titles that are selling more copies in digital than in print. This week: The next “50 Shades of Grey”? Read More »
Our primer to today’s DOJ lawsuit against five publishers and Apple — how we got here and what comes next. Read More »
The majority of U.S. public libraries now offer e-books, but libraries’ relationships with book publishers are fraught, says the American Library Association in its 2012 annual report. Read More »
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 »
As promised, Random House will continue to offer its e-books to libraries but as of March 1 has raised many e-books’ wholesale prices signif… Read More »
The studio behind the famous Godfather trilogy is asking a court to make the franchise’s literary heirs an offer they can’t refuse. Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Condé Nast cooking site Epicurious is selling Random House digital cookbooks that users can import into their “digital recipe boxes.” Howev… Read More »
$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 »
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Random House and Borders have proposed an amount the publisher is owed from the bookseller’s bankruptcy. Read More »
It is surprisingly hard for an author to know how many copies his or her book is selling. Now Simon & Schuster (NYSE: CBS) is giving its aut… Read More »
This summer, Politico signed a deal with Random House to publish four instant e-books about the 2012 presidential campaign. Now Politico has… Read More »
As election season approaches, Random House’s Crown Publishing is teaming up with political website RealClearPolitics to publish a four-book… Read More »
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