Crime author Val McDermid has directly appealed to the government and police for ebook pirates... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
PayPal president David Marcus has left to steer mobile messaging at Facebook. Facebook claims that its standalone messaging app, called Messenger, is now used by more than 200 million people monthly. And the company's blog post today suggested that Marcus would lead that specific part of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2014-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Reinventing audio, re-mixing children's books, the challenge of content curation, and mining... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Entitle Books, an ebook subscription service, has launched Entitle Christian, devoted exclusively to Christian books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book publisher RosettaBooks is launching an interactive e-reading app for mobile phones and tablets that allows consumers to buy an inventory of backlist classics from Rosetta's retail partners. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
As convenient as ebooks may be, lending them to friends is a headache; copyright woes notwithstanding, it's simply hard to show what you have on offer. Vodafone Romania just made things a bit easier, though. Its new Digital Library Wallpaper gives... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Printed books will be outsold by ebooks by 2018, a new report by Pricewaterhouse Coopers suggests. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Consumer ebook market set to almost triple over next four years while PwC predicts sales of printed editions will fallThe ebook will overtake the paperback and hardback as Britons' preferred format for reading their favourite novels by 2018, according to a report. The UK consumer ebook market... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Open Road Integrated Media has added more than 300 titles to its catalogue, acquiring the ebook list from Premier Digital Publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
New research on subscription ebook models from BISG shows publishers are still reticent, while consumers who embrace the model continue to buy books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The grassroots group #WeNeedDiverseBooks announced at BookCon that it is launching several new initiatives to promote multicultural books and authors. Plans include the first Children's Literature Diversity Festival in Washington, D.C. in 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
After posting another year of record losses and closing all of its e-reader stores outside of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The grassroots group, WeNeedDiverseBooks, announced at BookCon that it is launching several new initiatives to promote multicultural books and authors. Plans include the first Children's Literature Diversity Festival in Washington, D.C. in 2016. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-06-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook restricts users to those over the age of 13, but anyone who's talked to a tween lately knows how effective that is.But now it appears Facebook wants to create a way for young people to go legit on the network -- and still comply with the law.In a patent application filed in November of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2014-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
When ebooks first began to make meaningful inroads in publishing in 2009–2010, a number of executives predicted they would become another format within the industry. In 2013 ebooks had become part of the “normal” book market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Dispute has also dragged in authors including JK Rowling and James PattersonIt is another mystery for inspector Rebus to solve. Why is Amazon UK selling Saints of the Shadow Bible, the latest instalment of Ian Rankin's best-selling series about the Edinburgh sleuth, for half the price being... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-05-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unlike the dominant “one copy one user” analog era ebook lending model in libraries, Hoopla’s ebook service is based on a “transactional” model. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook is to release a new feature on its mobile app that will listen to and identify your music and TV shows before publishing them in a status update. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2014-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins continues its support for subscription ebook services in a deal with Epic!, a children’s subscription service, adding 1,000 backlist kids’ ebook titles to the company's library. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster has reached an agreement with subscription ebook services Oyster and Scribd to make 10,000 of its backlist ebooks available to subscribers. This is S&S’s first time offering its titles via ebook subscription services. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-21 00:00:00 UTC ]