Closures were up 42% over the previous year, according to the Guardian. The companies that folded included the 26-year-old healthcare publisher Panos London and Evans Brothers.Ninety-eight British publishers closed their doors in the year ending August 2013. The cause? E-books and online discounts. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Neil Gaiman is revealed as the final short story author of the Doctor Who stories. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Asus has been in the tablet and keyboard dock game for a while now. After several generations of Android based tablet and keyboard dock combinations, the T100 brings the sometimes schizophrenic interface of Windows 8 to its logical home on a hybrid tablet/notebook. The tablet looks and feels... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-11-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Confusing licensing rules, walled gardens, limited bundling, subscriptions, and library borrowing, buggy platforms. Why do we put up with this ebook nonsense? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Oyster and Scribd let you read an unlimited number of books for a monthly fee, but is there enough content to make it worth it? Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2013-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins has begun selling ebooks direct to consumers through new brand-specific websites,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
In a filing last week, attorneys for the states and consumer class put Apple’s estimated damages for its role in an ebook price-fixing conspiracy with publishers at nearly $308 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Earlier this month, Simon & Schuster and Yilin Press announced a new distribution and publishing agreement that will expand the availability of electronic editions for works in Mandarin for readers worldwide. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Enthrill's Kevin Franco discusses his company's distribution platform to make ebooks salable in brick-and-mortar stores through ebook gift cards and author cards. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Instagram's cautious roll-out of its in-stream ads is now underway.U.S. users who open the app in the coming week will see an "educational ad" from Instagram itself, according to a blog post. Confirmed advertisers to follow it are Adidas, Ben & Jerry's, Burberry, General Electric, Levi's,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bucharest-based developer Read Forward has produced original ebooks, luxury digital editions of classics and is now moving into education, with fully interactive HTML5 textbooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The harmonisation of VAT across print and digital books could move a step closer this week with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
David Beckham will hold a "groundbreaking" global digital book signing event on 30th... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Students are the worst when it comes to ebook piracy, says an online data monitoring company. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A federal judge taps former federal prosecutor Michael Bromwich to keep an eye on Apple's antitrust compliance. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook was already implementing stronger security controls when the U.S. National Security Agency’s expansive surveillance program was revealed in June, its chief security officer said Thursday. The social networking site has continued upgrading its security infrastructure, said Joe... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
By nixing DRM and selling in the MOBI format, Poland’s ebook players are making strides forward, but the market is still fragmented. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
For all the improvements Microsoft has made in bolstering the Windows Store's app selection, one insistent question has held back the company's dreams of grandeur: "Yeah, but where's Facebook?" Indeed, the largest social network in the land has been a conspicuous no-show in Microsoft app... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
When's the last time you sat down to read a book for several hours? Or even one hour? We are both card-carrying humanities scholars, but even we can barely scrape 15 minutes together for sustained engagement with a text. And yet humans are reading now more than ever when you think about the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A federal judge has appointed a former U.S. prosecutor as the monitor who ensures that Apple Inc. complies with a ruling from the ebook antitrust case the company lost this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]