The American Library Association has created a scorecard that asks library workers to grade publishers on the way that they are offering ebooks for lending. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Whatever Kindle sales were in Q4, they could have been better had Amazon not sold out of its flagship e-reader. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2013-01-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Porter Anderson's weekly curation of the best Web postings for authors takes in the UK's growing consternation over 20p ebooks, Amazon's untrustworthy reviews and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Extrapolating from recent sales figures from ebook distributor DLD, we estimate ebook sales to reach some 3.57 million units—or 2.6% of the overall market—by the end of 2013. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Major publishers are taking wildly different approaches to resolving the woes surrounding ebook lending at libraries: they're experimenting with both the short-yet-cheap subscription as well as an expensive option to pay only once for perpetual use. Sure enough, we're now seeing the middle road.... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-01-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Concerns are mounting among publishers, booksellers and authors about the long-term impact of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-book retailer Anobii is changing its name to eBooks by Sainsbury’s. The move comes six... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Aurum imprint Jacqui Small Publishing is moving into the illustrated ebook market, starting next... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Fans angry over a delayed ebook release for the finale in Robert Jordan's 'Wheel of Time' series have given the book one-star ratings on Amazon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2013-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
From corporate consolidation to book discoverability, to how books are produced and bought, to the proliferation of new devices to read them on, this year’s Digital Book World was a whirlwind tour of the industry’s changing landscape. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2013-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Looking back on this week's Digital Book World conference, we distill the event into three key ideas: price innovation, discoverability and authenticity. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
You want an idea to survive hundreds or thousands of years? Step one: Don’t write it on paper. Alexander Konta believed this deeply. Paper yellows and withers and crumbles; it is the printed form of Alzheimer’s. “Why not make [text] imperishable by photographing the written word after it has... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2013-01-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Trade magazines Publishers Weekly and The Bookseller have put out new lists analyzing the bestselling books of 2012. No surprise, but E.L. James dominated. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Touching the Void author Joe Simpson has split from long-term publisher Random House following... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
McGraw-Hill is taking on the one-size-fits-all approach to textbooks with its freshly unveiled SmartBook: an ebook that is claimed to adapt to student's learning patterns. Aimed at college students, the SmartBook service peppers users with questions as they read and determines what topics it... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2013-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber has launched a series of digital-only poetry ebooks being described as "a new way to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-01-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
If you bought a copy of "Fifty Shades of Grey" for your e-reader, you are not alone -- not by a long shot. If you bought a copy of "Fifty Shades of Grey" for your e-reader, you are not alone -- not by a long shot. E.L. James' sexy novel about innocent college student Anastasia Steele and her... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2013-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
News out of Japan suggests Apple will launch Japanese-language ebooks in January, with a selection of 80,000 titles from publishers including Kadokawa, Shogakukan, and Kodansha. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Surprisingly, Apple leads Brazil's ebook sales, but by 2014 Amazon should dominate, with Kobo, Google, Saraiva and others behind. We explain why. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2013-01-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unlike the owners of a physical tome, buyers of ebooks are licensees with lots of limitations. It's time to change the rules.There's a crass old joke about how you can never buy beer, just rent it. Who would think that the same joke applies to book buying in the digital age? Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-12-22 00:00:00 UTC ]