A federal judge has appointed a former U.S. prosecutor as the monitor who ensures that Apple Inc. complies with a ruling from the ebook antitrust case the company lost this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A federal judge taps former federal prosecutor Michael Bromwich to keep an eye on Apple's antitrust compliance. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Although big media brands like The New York Times and The Economist aren't going away anytime soon, the online publishing industry increasingly includes brands, marketers, and independent journalists. With the launch of a new content network, the tech startup NewsCred wants to be the liaison... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The 28-year-old novelist from New Zealand, the youngest ever to win the prize, addressed the critics who have approached her complex novel with trite assumptions about gender.Running on a mere 2½ hours of sleep and exactly 12 hours after winning the Man Booker Prize for her novel “The... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
W H Smith’s website has gone live again after nearly four days without trading. Smith'... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook was already implementing stronger security controls when the U.S. National Security Agency’s expansive surveillance program was revealed in June, its chief security officer said Thursday. The social networking site has continued upgrading its security infrastructure, said Joe... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
He's the people's paparazzo: a photographer who gathers the stories and portraits of New Yorkers on the streets and subways, in playgrounds and shady alleyways, parading, dancing, or wading in wedding dresses at Brighton Beach. Brandon Stanton, who founded the irresistible blog Humans of New... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Library campaigners have reacted angrily to new government guidance which offers advice for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The contenders for the fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and young people's literature prizes are now narrowed down to five. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Transworld has bought a book about the 1932 Winter Olympics by senior Guardian sports writer Andy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Just like the Marvel movies, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. enjoys adding references to the more obscure details of the Marvel Universe as tiny presents for longtime readers of the comic books. And we enjoy breaking them down. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams is to chair the judging panel for the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The finalists for the 2013 National Book Award have been announced anI, for the first time, a free ebook series with samples of all the finalists' work is available for download. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Due to a technical issue, we were unable to send out the October 16 issue of PW Daily yesterday. Some the stories are included today. Our piece on the NBA finalists is available here and all stories, as always, are available on PW's Web site. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
When's the last time you sat down to read a book for several hours? Or even one hour? We are both card-carrying humanities scholars, but even we can barely scrape 15 minutes together for sustained engagement with a text. And yet humans are reading now more than ever when you think about the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
When the history books sort it all out for us, the unlikely hero of the government shutdown of 2013 may well be the Senate chaplain, former Navy Rear Adm. Barry C. Black. Amid all the crazy chest thumping up at the Capitol these past few weeks, Black has been preaching truth to power. In... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Students are the worst when it comes to ebook piracy, says an online data monitoring company. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
To many devoted readers, bookstores, and collectors, a book is good, but a signed book is best—and the absence of a title page to autograph is just another reason for purists to eschew those newfangled e-readers. A signed copy of a favorite book can be intensely meaningful to an avid fan. And in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Quercus has signed two historical romances from debut author Natalie Meg Evans. Kathryn Taussig... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
After launching last month for the iPhone, Oyster, a Netflix-like app for reading ebooks, is available for the iPad. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]