Wattpad, a booming ebook community site, hosts five million stories, with 500,000 added per month. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Atlantic Books publishing director Margaret Stead has bought an "heroic" memoir by... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bonnier has launched a new company, Bonnier Books New Markets, to focus on strategic acquisitions... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The pros and cons of DRM have been a hot topic at this year's BookExpo America, with at least... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sony has decided to join the web-based shopping party, launching an online reader store for its e-inked devices and companion apps. Any e-Books purchased will arrive ready-to-read on the Reader app or other suitably wireless device, with titles also working on any Adobe DRM-supported apps and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The romance with the printed word shows no signs of abating. Despite the rapid growth in ebook sales in recent years, print book output in 2011 grew by 6%, to 347,178 titles, compared to the prior year. The preliminary numbers released Tuesday by bibliographic database Bowker are "the most... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Science-fiction great Ray Bradbury died Tuesday night in California at the age of 91. He was renowned for his short stories as well as for the dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, which cast readers into a Cold War-inspired future of paranoid book burning. Back in 2005, Bryan Curtis argued that,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Ian Rankin has revealed that his next novel Standing in Another Man’s Grave will see... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The tech genius who helped Arianna scale tries his own thing: A lightweight publishing platform aimed at the Tumblr/WordPress set. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jason Pontin has a daunting task at hand. The editor in chief and publisher of MIT’s Technology Review is the man charged with recalibrating the 112-year-old thought-leading publication, a duty he described to Adweek as an "on some level unwelcome, but intellectually interesting task, which is... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2012-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon has a bit of good news today for those that have opted for its least expensive e-reader. The company has just begun rolling out a new software update that brings with it a new reading font that's said to be "higher contrast and crisper" for an even more "paper-like reading experience."... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sony unveils a Harry Potter-based book, part-written by JK Rowling, as the first Wonderbook title for its Playstation console. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Authors Guild is encouraging its 8,500 members to submit comments against the proposed settlement between the Department of Justice and three large publishers. The settlement, the guild argues, will only benefit Amazon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
For book lovers, the summer is always a busy, exciting season, and this year is no exception. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
The number of traditionally published print books rose 6% in 2011, to 347,178, according to preliminary figures released Tuesday morning by Bowker. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Many in the book world are eager to discover if Oprah's book club – after a two-year hiatus and now on the lower-profile OWN network – will still draw readers in massive numbers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ball Publishing Company founded in 1968 by John and Carol Ball in Southwestern Ohio has been acquired by Brothers’ Publishing Company LLC, a media company owned by Fred and Keith Foutz, two long time newspaper executives. Their first acqu ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales were “crazy, crazy,” at Sal Ali’s grocery and news shop in Manhattan, where issues of Time magazine featuring a controversial cover on attachment parenting were selling off the rack. It was the rack, of course, that generated so much interest for the May 21 cover story, illustrated with an... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2012-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
B-to-b publishers are going to market with more products than ever—including their own and those of their clients. The advantage they offer, of course, is a narrow, targeted audience. The challenge they face is to avoid tapping out that audience, or allowing their marketing messages to get lost... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Waterstones could sell other devices instore alongside the Kindle, as m.d. James Daunt said the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]