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, 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 man the Department of Justice calls the "chief ringleader" of Apple's alleged conspiracy to raise ebook prices finally takes the stand in the government's price-fixing case against Apple. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2013-06-14 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 director Keith Moerer said in court on Tuesday that the company holds about 20 percent of the US ebook market, double the size commonly assumed. The revelation came after the Department of Justice tried to bolster its price fixing case against the company by asserting that "Apple forgot to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple may not have been quite as indifferent to publishers' deals with Amazon as it professes to be. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2013-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Few people understand the magic of libraries better than Philip Pullman, author of His Dark Materials, but all is not well when it comes to digital lending. As the soon-to-be president of the Society of Authors, Pullman is leading the charge against publishing houses that may be shortchanging... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]