Farrar, Straus and Giroux is releasing George Seldon's Chester Cricket and His Friends series in ebook format for the first time for the new tablet-toting generation of young readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple is looking to escape from New York. In a filing this week, Apple attorneys argue that Judge Denise Cote does not have jurisdiction to oversee its upcoming damages trial. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
A Little Friendly Orgy and other porn stories have been sold as work by the author of The Eagle Has LandedReaders fancying a journey into the world of the bestselling thriller author Jack Higgins may be getting a different kind of thrill, courtesy of another writer selling erotic novels under... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Local Government Association calls on websites to highlight dangers of drinking game linked to several deathsTwitter and Facebook should introduce warnings about the drinking game neknominate, which has been linked to several deaths, councils have said. The Local Government Association (LGA),... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
If the announcement of Facebook paying $19 billion in cash and stock for WhatsApp surprised you then maybe you’d forgotten this prediction I published on January 8th: #6 -- Facebook transforms itself (or tries to) with a huge acquisition. I wrote long ago that we’d never see Facebook in the Dow... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2014-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kotobi.com, a major new Arabic ebookstore launched at this year's Cairo Book Fair, has potential to be a gamechanger for publishing in the region. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
We talk to David Fernández Payatos, CEO of Nubico, the Spanish ebook subscription service that is looking to acquire 30% of Spain's e-reading market. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Increased market supply appears to be having an impact on Spanish ebook piracy, though it remains a widespread problem. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first three titles to be released will be I Love Lucy, The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, and The Disney Parks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook has to comply with German data protection law, the Higher Court of Berlin ruled in a decision that directly contradicted an earlier decision by another court.The Berlin court confirmed a 2012 verdict that found that Facebook’s Friend Finder violated German law because it was unclear to... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-02-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publishers that rely on Facebook to drive large portions of their traffic are at constant risk of having the rug pulled out from under their feet. A recent algorithm tweak may have done just that. The post Facebook Withdrawal: Viral Publishers See Traffic Plunge appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-02-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sourcebooks has acquired U.S. rights to the 1989 political thriller novel "House of Cards" by Michael Dobbs as well as two sequels. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
A report from the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection on the state of the library ebook market has recommended no legislative initiatives, instead advocating a “wait and see” approach. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Open Road, the largest independent ebook publisher, has purchased E-Reads, which is the oldest. The deal, announced Monday, adds 1,200 titles to Open Road's catalog of more than 4,000 ebooks at a... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2014-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple will continue to be watched by an antitrust monitor during its appeal of a court order creating the position, a court ruled.While a setback for Apple, which had asked for a stay of the appointment of an external compliance monitor in an ebooks price-fixing conspiracy case, the ruling by... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-02-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The PC business isn’t the only one Sony will abandon. The electronics giant is also closing the books on its North American ebook efforts.“Wait,” you’re probably saying after reading that sentence: “Sony was making an ebook effort in North America?”And you know, that’s pretty hurtful.Still, you... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
After what the government said was an 18-month investigation, Canada’s Competition Bureau has reached consent agreements with four multinational publishers regarding their ebook pricing policies. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Billing WEbook as a digital “slush pile,” Ardy Khazaei, its former president, told PW in 2009 that the Web site aimed to match agents with the kinds of manuscripts they were looking to represent. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
ReadersFirst was born because libraries need to have in-house ebook collections,” explains Rachel Wood of the Arlington Va. Public Library, a member of the Leadership Working Group of ReadersFirst, an international coalition of libraries that have banded together to set down principles,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sony, one of the first companies to enter the ebook market, will close its ebookstore in March and allow its American and Canadian customers to migrate their accounts to Kobo. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]