The rules of the game dictate that any effort to move into America’s large and lucrative education publishing industry must be swaddled in pieties, and the electronic textbook initiative announced by Apple last week was no exception. Apple, which is normally willing to state that customers will... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-01-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Jonathan Cape has acquired a steampunk novel by journalist Matt Suddain, describing it as being... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Harvill Secker has acquired two books by Swedish crime writer Arne Dahl, with senior crime editor... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Want to replace your traditional library with ebooks? Here are some sites and tools that can help you make your physical books disappear. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Polar Mobile, a digital media platform provider that builds apps for some of the biggest media companies, today announced it has secured an additional $6 million in funding. The new round, led by growth equity firm Georgian Partners, joins more than ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Lawyers acting for the plaintiffs in the case against Apple and major publishers in the US over e... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers have reported ebook sales surging by up to 355% post-Christmas, as Nielsen BookScan... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Salman Rushdie has expressed his "outrage" following a report in The Hindu that... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reinvention is set to be a key trend for 2012, with top literary agents saying they are on the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Journalist and TV researcher Hester Abrams has been appointed to the role of director of literary... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Children's publishing emerged relatively unscathed from a recessionary 2011, with 13 of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Christian book supplier Trust Media has begun redundancy consultations with staff after a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
There's a strange concept in marketing that no publicity is really bad. If people talk about you, it broadly raises brand awareness. People eventually forget the bad news but not the brand. Who remembers last year's furor over Apple's onerous publisher subscription terms? That's the eventual... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to ebook readers, which also jumped from 10% to 19% over the same time ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The actress Jennifer Lawrence in a scene from the movie adaptation of "The Hunger Games." Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber and Faber has set up a social media hub, The Spark, for teenagers to get involved in Faber... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Matt Hamblen's recent article on ebook borrowing illustrates the difficulties libraries are facing in the digital age. It's too bad, because libraries are an important resource. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple can improve education and empower authors to create ever-better digital books without limiting customers. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Today's Wall Street Journal takes a look at a new lineup of "enhanced" digital books that incorporate music, video and high-tech graphics. But as one Wharton expert notes, the market for these elaborate productions remains to be seen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Knowledge@Wharton | 2012-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
U.S. online ad spending is set to eclipse that of print this year by 15.5 percent, according to eMarketer, suggesting that the long-awaited print-to-digital inflection point may now be here for both content creators and marketers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2012-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]