A new lawsuit claims a former Republican presidential candidate used a photo without permission for the cover of his biography, This is Herman Cain!

I asked publishers and authors how they’re promoting their e-books for the holidays and got answers from bundling and free samplers to Kindle Fire giveaways. Click through to see who’s doing what.

$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 publishers adopted agency pricing models and ended Amazon’s discounting of their books. However, for a variety of reasons, few readers ever had the chance to…

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 authors real-time access to their sales information for the first time, and Random House and Hachette Book Group just announced they will do…

There’s a mud-covered station wagon parked in a rest stop off the Maine Turnpike. It has no license plates and no driver. And it is killing anybody who gets too close. Klout “influencers” will find out why a week earlier than the general population.

John Locke, the first self-published author to sell over a million copies of his books on Kindle, is the latest to sign a deal with a traditional publishing company, Simon & Schuster (NYSE: CBS). But the company won’t get a cent of his digital sales.

Glenn Beck has long endorsed novels, particularly thrillers, on his Fox News show; he’s the author of seven bestselling books; and his news and opinion website, The Blaze, covers books occasionally. Now, as Beck prepares to leave Fox, he’s expanding his footprint in the book publishing world. His multimedia production…

Technically, Bookish doesn’t have any revenue stream yet. The joint venture of Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group (USA), and Simon & Schuster (NYSE: CBS) went public Friday after more than a year in stealth but the launch is planned for summer. CEO Paulo Lemgruber and I chatted via e-mail about…

Three major publishers are behind the latest effort to boost print and digital book reading. Bookish, backed by Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group (USA), and Simon & Schuster (NYSE: CBS), promises an editorially independent platform for discovery and sales. It has been in stealth mode for months as “Obikosh.” (Get…

Scribner and Simon & Schuster Digital began selling an “enhanced e-book” of Rick Perlstein’s best-selling doorstop, Nixonland, in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iBookstore and on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) on Thursday. The title, which was already available in an Amazon Kindle version, represents the first test of whether Apple can challenge…

Today’s standout standout but still small digital number from earnings reports: CBS (NYSE: CBS) Publishing aka Simon & Schuster reports a roughly 233 percent increase in digital publishing revenue for Q1, to $12 million from $3.6 million. The surge comes on higher digital sales of e-books, audio downloads and stand-alone…

Tucked inside the presentation by Skiff CEO Gil Fuchsberg during Wednesday’s Samsung Unpacked session at CTIA; a batch of content partners for the upcoming e-reading platform, including book publishers Simon & Schuester and Random House. Others include the New York Times, Esquire, the Financial Times, Forbes. and, appropriate for a…

The e-book market has exploded, and readers have their pick of slim, little e-readers to choose from—but they’re still just reading words on a page, albeit digitally. Enter Vook, the funny-named startup that’s trying to take books to the next level, by integrating video and social media elements with the…

Simon & Schuster Digital has made key additions and changes to its existing staff: —Adrian Norman joins as VP-marketing and new products and former Oxygen Media CTO Steve Morgan as VP-engineering. Norman, most recently executive director-digital media for Disney-ABC Television, will supervise digital products, including ramping up online promotions and…

Elinor Hirschhorn joins Simon & Schuster as EVP and the new position of chief digital office. Hirschhon, most recently EVP-corporate development and strategy at CSTV, will be responsible for all of S&S’s digital activities. Her first task: integrate digital into one business unit. That includes strategy and new business development,…