Former Facebook employee Kate Losse says Eggers used her personal story as the narrative for his novel 'The Circle.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The San Diego Reader is mining gold from its rich archives and releasing the treasures as a collection of six eBooks, the first installment of a series that will showcase the literary quality and historic value of a collection spanning more than 40 y ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Advertising Age's new eBook collection is informative, practical and easy to read. These guides, available on Amazon's Kindle, expertly cover current marketing topics and are designed to be a resource for marketers at every level, in any business.In "Winning with Facebook Advertising," readers... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2013-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ads for mobile apps are frequently ineffective after the first viewing -- once users install a given app, they rarely have incentives to try the software again. Facebook may have found a way to sustain customers' interest through its new deep linking ad format, however. The approach takes... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
The real problem with ebooks is that they're more 'e' than book, so an entirely different set of rules govern what someone can and can't do with them compared to physical books, especially when it comes to pricing. The collusion in pricing has been a public issue for a while, but we need to talk... Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Scribd formally launched ebook subscriptions today and the company CEO said he believes the service could eventually produce $1 billion in annual revenue. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sainsbury’s has launched a month-long promotion offering ebooks for 99p each. The... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Many of us associate Scribd with embedded documents on websites, but the company has been quietly building an ebook platform -- first by selling content and later by soft-launching a subscription service. The company is now making its strategy clear by formally launching the ebook service and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Campaign group Europe-v-Facebook received Facebook's response to complaints about the social networks' privacy policy on Tuesday, but was barred from publishing them by the Irish Data Protection Commissioner. Europe-v-Facebook wrote to the DPC over two years ago alleging that a lack of... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
A feature that allows Facebook users to edit their updates after publishing could be utilised to "stitch up" friends, an expert warns. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook’s website and its Android app now will allow users to make changes to posts after they have been published. iOS users, coming soon for you. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2013-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
If you've ever written "poo" instead of "pool" or "duck" instead of, er, "suck" in your Facebook status updates, then we've got good news for you. At long last, you can finally edit your post after it's been published, a feature that was previously only reserved for the comments. As you can see... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook users, rejoice: You can now edit posts after they've been published. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-09-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google has expanded Play ebook sales to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, and New Zealand. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
@Horse_ebooks is the Twitter account that, until today, spewed frequent bouts of eerily poetic nonsense to more than 213,000 followers: @Horse_ebooks was widely believed to be a Twitter bot whose tweets were sent out by a robot that scraped text from obscure parts of the Internet. That is, until... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
In Mexico City librarians from Colombia, Mexico and Spain agreed there remained numerous challenges to libraries offering digital content and lending ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Bill Bryson calls on publishers to give away ebooks with printed copies in order to tempt readers back to buying physical books. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2013-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Twitter is quite the medium. An endless source of looping GIFs, "viral" videos, and, sadly, bad advertising. Most of the latter category is quickly dismissed by the block and report spam features of Twitter, but the occasional spambot elevates its "craft" to a level of surreal bliss which begs... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
According to AAP’s monthly StatShot report, adult ebooks rose only 4.8% in the first six months of 2013 compared to the same period in 2012, hitting $647.7 million. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
In Mexico, the attitude towards ebooks has shifted from one of wariness and worry to one of enthusiasm, as evidenced by this year's International E-book Symposium. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]