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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
With its eye firmly fixed on a return to profitability, Sony's been making extensive cuts to its business arms in recent days (bye bye, VAIO!). So it's no surprise the company would train that cost-cutting eye onto another underperforming unit -- its... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-02-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
OverDrive has announced that it is making available HarperCollins' 5,000 ebooks to schools and libraries in U.K. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2014-02-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ten years today, the social networking giant has notched up some interesting numbers along the way• How Facebook became the world's biggest social network1.23bn monthly usersBy the end of 2013, Facebook boasted 1.23bn monthly active users worldwide, adding 170m in just one year. According to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Last week, the US government finally relented on letting technology companies publish more detail about national security requests; today, some bigger firms are taking advantage of the looser rules. Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Yahoo have updated ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
While Facebook is positioning Paper as a way for publishers to better reach -- and, hopefully, monetize -- mobile readers, Paper may make publishers too dependent on Facebook for traffic. The meteoric rise of sites like Elite Daily, Upworthy and Viral Nova shows how social-savvy publishers can... Continue reading >> [ Source: Digiday | 2014-02-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple Inc. faces as much as $840 million in state and consumer antitrust claims related to electronic-book deals with publishers as it continues to oppose a court-ordered monitor in a related U.S.... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading >> [ Source: Crains New York | 2014-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The survey was conducted by the site Good e-Reader among participants whom Good e-Reader estimated buy between 50 and 100 books a year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2014-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]