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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
There is “no scope” to change the 20% VAT rate on ebooks, the UK government said... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
So, you've written your book. Now what? Find out with 'Publishing 101,' a new ebook from 'Publishers Weekly' that offers a no-nonsense perspective on how publishing works, and what writers can do to make their own projects take off. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book distributor INscribe Digital has launched INstore, a new digital tool that allows publishers to track the real-time availability of their ebooks at major ebook retailers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Slicebooks, a startup that enables publishers to "slice," "remix" and sell content on its platform, announced that it has added content from six new publishers Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oyster, an iPhone and iPad app that gives users unlimited access to its catalog of ebooks for $9.95 per month, announced that it now has more than 500,000 titles available on its service. The New York start-up launched to much acclaim last September, hailed as the Netflix of ebooks. But... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2014-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-books will not replace printed children’s books, bestselling children’s author... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple attorneys argue that sending the matter to the Second Circuit would “save judicial resources by potentially avoiding the need for a costly trial.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]