The Kindle Fire tablet and Kindle Fire HD are available to order through Waterstones, the chain... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
A judge approved on Thursday a Justice Department settlement with three publishers accused of conspiring with Apple Inc and other publishers to push up the prices of electronic books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo is launching a new tablet and e-reader in an attempt to wrest the market away from Amazon and Apple, both of which will probably release new tablets soon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
John Bond, former m.d. of Press Books at HarperCollins, has teamed up with former HarperPress... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Titan Books has acquired two new authors, marking its move into more female-orientated fantasy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Some well-kept secrets at Penguin Group, most notably the succession plan for its CEO, were put on display late Wednesday with the filing of an age discrimination lawsuit by the book publisher's former longtime head of corporate communications, Marilyn Ducksworth. Her lawyers charge Penguin with... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The chief executive and chief operating officer of Anobii will leave the business, being replaced... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hodder has acquired the story of a sexual submissive, Bound to You by Nichi Hodgson. Fenella... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Aziz Isham did not intend to get into retailing. Instead, ReKiosk, the online storefront he cofounded that started up last week—it currently offers only music and books—came out of conversations he had been having with independent publishers. All of them, he said, expressed frustration over the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The top US regional book markets have seen print sales drop year on year at a far greater rate... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
A judge has approved an ebook price-fixing settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and three book publishers. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
After crossing the 20 million user threshold last week, On Friday, the social magazine Flipboard is looking to capture the imagination of brands by elevating tablet advertising. To that end, Flipboard has unveiled a new digital magazine-like ad treatment for Levi's, which blends elements of... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage at a large airplane hangar in Santa Monica, Calif., this morning and presented a dazzling, methodical, hourlong disquisition on the state of the technology business. He began by explaining why most of the iPad’s competitors have failed: “They’re gadgets,” he... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a move that could reshape the publishing industry, a federal judge has approved a settlement with three of the nation's largest book publishers over alleged collusion in the pricing of ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Android OS may dominate the smartphone market, but figures released by Google tell a different story on the tablet front. Stats from Google Play, Google's one-stop shop for apps, movies, books and music, show that, while normal-sized devices - ie phones - account for 86 per cent of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2012-09-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
J K Rowling will appear at this year's Lennoxlove Book Festival in Haddington, East Lothian,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo unveils three new devices ahead of rival e-readers being made available in UK high street stores. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dr. Seuss, meet Harry Potter. Barbara Marcus, the former president of children's book publishing at Scholastic—the U.S. home of the Hogwarts wizard—has been named president and publisher of Random House Children's Books. The world's largest children's house publishes The Cat in the Hat and every... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Just hours ahead of Amazon's debut of a new Kindle tablet on Thursday, Kobo, the ebook company that can be thought of as "Canada's Kindle" debuted a new color Android tablet called the Kobo Arc. Kobo Arc is the company's second Android tablet, following up on the Kobo Vox which debuted around... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has officially unveiled the 2012 vintage of the Kindle Fire, which is reportedly 44 percent more powerful than its predecessor. The service-orientated slate (as opposed to a gadget, which CEO Jeff Bezos claims nobody wants) comes with a bigger battery, a new processor and 1GB RAM --... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-09-06 00:00:00 UTC ]