An antitrust suit may provide short-term price reductions on ebooks, but once the competition is flattened, Amazon is likely to resume its monopolistic ways. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Getting to the consumer, getting the right content to that consumer, and then making this... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
In February, the Educational Development Corporation said it would remove all its titles from Amazon, more evidence of the tumult over who gets to decide how much a book costs. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
A journey across the Pacific Crest Trail turns into an exercise of triumph over grief for Cheryl Strayed in her memoir, 'Wild.'Toward the end of Cheryl Strayed's memoir, "Wild," the author, who is in the middle of hiking 1,100 miles alone across the West Coast's formidable Pacific Crest Trail,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has acquired the new novel by The Lacuna-author Barbara Kingsolver, as well as a short... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Random House Group is signing publishing partnerships with digital start-up Small Demons and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette UK has topped the shortlist league table for the 2012 Bookseller Industry Awards, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jake Smith-Bosanquet has been appointed to the new role of managing director of literary agency... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Max Porter, currently manager of the Chelsea branch of Daunt Books, is to join Granta... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for criticism Monday. Morris, 36, who joined the Globe staff in 2002, won the prize for a range of movie reviews and essays published in 2011. Among the pieces submitted with ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers hoping that digital sales would make up for the decline in physical books are worried. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-04-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
The company says it allows publishers to set their own prices. Several antitrust lawsuits have accused former chief Steve Jobs of inflating prices of new releases and bestsellers.Apple Inc., responding for the first time to antitrust charges levied against it and five major book publishers this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple shot back at critics and the Justice Department late Thursday, denying claims that it colluded with publishers to keep the price of ebooks artificially high. Even more interesting? The Cupertino, Calif. company took a veiled shot at Amazon, saying its actions were necessary to break up the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple Inc. says the accusation that it conspired with major book publishers to raise the price of ebooks is untrue.Apple spokesman Tom Neumayr says that, contrary to allegations in lawsuits by the Justice Department and 15 states, Apple fostered innovation and competition by introducing its... Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2012-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Pottermore, the website experience based on the seven Harry Potter books, opened this morning,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
In July 2011, when Harvard Business School changed the name of its book publishing operation to Harvard Business Review Press to match its strongest brand, the Harvard Business Review magazine, it wasn’t clear what kind of impact it might have. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book users will now be able to read in complete darkness - thanks to the first-ever e-ink reader that glows in the dark. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
When looking at an effort with the scale of World Book Night U.S.—half a million books will be given away to strangers across all 50 states on April 23—it’s helpful to consider some numbers: 25,000 “givers” have volunteered to give away their allotment of books to people, many of whom they’ve... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Works that will be available for perusal will include Gutenberg's Bible, believed to be the first text ever printed. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple has joined Penguin and Macmillan in defending itself against accusations of collusion over... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]