Just as Kobo has cozied up to physical booksellers, so too does Amazon have a plan to smother them in e-ink kisses. Under the company's new "Amazon Source" program, any independent bookstore that sells a Kindle tablet or e-reader will be rewarded with ten percent of future book purchases made on ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
This month's starred self-published books of note include a fictional tragedy in pre-colonial Nigeria and a memoir where beer pong meets sado-masochism. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon.com is offering independent booksellers the opportunity to sell Kindle e-readers. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last night's "F.Z.Z.T." wasn't very heavy with the comic book easter eggs, but it was filled to the brim with callbacks to earlier events in Marvel's movies. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The U.K.'s Bookseller reports Small Demons had been in negotiations with an international buyer, but those talks fell through.Los Angeles-based bookish tech startup Small Demons will close its doors Nov. 25, it has told publishers, unless a last-minute buyer is found. The U.K.'s Bookseller... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Closures were up 42% over the previous year, according to the Guardian. The companies that folded included the 26-year-old healthcare publisher Panos London and Evans Brothers.Ninety-eight British publishers closed their doors in the year ending August 2013. The cause? E-books and online discounts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The group finance director at Random House Group, Mark Gardiner, has been appointed as Penguin... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Perseus Books Group had “strong” financial results for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2013, results which “surpassed our budgeted goals,” company CEO David Steinberger wrote to Perseus' 675 employees. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The prize fund for the Wellcome Book Prize has been increased to £30,000. This marks a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Asus has been in the tablet and keyboard dock game for a while now. After several generations of Android based tablet and keyboard dock combinations, the T100 brings the sometimes schizophrenic interface of Windows 8 to its logical home on a hybrid tablet/notebook. The tablet looks and feels... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Library campaigners in Scotland are taking legal action in an attempt to keep libraries in Moray... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tablets are well on their way to outselling notebooks. But while the Windows 8 user interface makes it possible to navigate the operating system with just a fingertip, that doesn’t mean all of your old programs become magically finger-friendly. For some things, you just need a keyboard. A new... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Our weekly round-up of web buzz looks at Italy's RCS Libri / Rizzoli Lab effort in co-publishing; self-publishing in Germany; author contracts; and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lenovo is known for building notebooks with exquisite keyboards, but the company is also no stranger to the tablet game. It has also introduced pioneering convertibles, such as the Yoga 11s and the newer Flex 14. The Miix 10 should be the culmination of that experience, but this hybrid falls... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book start-up Zola Books has secured $5.1m in seed funding, with prominent individual investors... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Women's Prize for Fiction winner A M Homes and Man Booker-longlisted Richard House are among... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
IBM is alleging that Twitter has infringed on its patents, including one that would seem to give the computing giant status as an inventor of online advertising.Revealed in a Twitter filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission this morning, IBM is claiming that Twitter has infringed on at... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
An interview with Gene Luen Yang, whose linked novels Boxers and Saints envisions the Boxer Rebellion from two sides and has been nominated for the National Book Award. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some 150 publishers - from the U.K. and Europe, from the U.S. and Latin America and of course from across the Arab world - gathered at Sharjah's Chamber of Commerce this week for the two-day professional program that preceded the 32nd Sharjah International Book Fair. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Orion is to publish a biography of the late singer-songwriter Lou Reed by rock writer Mick Wall... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]