Preliminary results from a new survey say that Japan's ebook market is valued at 72.9 billion yen ($740 million), a 15.9% jump over 2011. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Justice Department’s ebook price fixing trial – alleging that Apple conspired to raise ebook prices – is scheduled to end this week. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Judge Denise Cote seemed inclined to rule for the Department of Justice at the beginning of the trial, but her remarks as the case closed seemed to indicate a shift towards Apple's side. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The future of book publishing is increasingly digital -- and increasingly tilted towards genre fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-06-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Author Nick Harkaway has called for authors to be offered a greater share of royalties from e-... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-06-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook Inc. FB -3.51% is aiming to become a newspaper for mobile devices. The social network has been quietly working on a service, internally called Reader, that displays content from Facebook users and publishers in a new visual format tail ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Facebook, which has never shied away from copying its rivals' features, is now working on a mobile service that would display news content in a visually appealing, magazine style, similar to what startup Flipboard already does. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-06-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Online subscription services have proved successful for entertainment businesses like Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify, but other than O’Reilly’s Safari Books Online, which is geared to professionals, trade ebook subscriptions have gained little traction. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-Libros, one Colombia's few digital publishers, is using the tarjeta e-libro, or ebook cards, to reach readers accustomed to only buying print books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Apple/ DoJ ebook price fixing trial will enter its final sessions later today (20th June),... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-06-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Magzter, an online store front for digital magazines, is to launch an ebook store with a planned... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nearly half the titles read by children in a national reading competition were consumed online, according to the charity Booktrust. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2013-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The next ebook you buy might not exactly match the printed version. And those changes are there to make sure you're not a pirate. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2013-06-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
A blow-by-blow account of how Apple and five of America's six largest publishers ended up on the wrong end of price-fixing allegations by the Department of Justice, from PW senior writer Andrew Richard Albanese. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Joshua Tallent, well-known ebook expert and founder of Ebook Architects, shares his views on current issues in digital publishing and ebook development. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The OED bent the rules slightly by adding 'tweet' in under 10 years – a nod to the word's rapid and widespread rise into everyday usage. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Passing on your favorite books to your heirs has sentimental value. But how will that work if your library is digital? Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Government lawyers allege the agreements Apple signed in 2010 with five publishers amounted to a conspiracy to get consumers to pay more for electronic books.NEW YORK — Eddy Cue, the Apple Inc. executive in charge of negotiating the company's controversial ebook deals, defended how the tech... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple Inc. (AAPL) executive Eddy Cue told a judge he felt extra pressure to reach deals with ebook publishers in time for the introduction of the iPad in 2010 because of company cofounder Steve Jobs’s precarious health. “Steve ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2013-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Society of Authors has ignited a public row with publishers over ebook lending terms, after... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]