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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
The consumer ebook market was worth more than £90m in the first 10 months of 2012... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
A free ebook of our best work just in time for the holidays. Makes a great gift for wordy nerds! And much cheaper than a Battlestar Galactica box set. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-12-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Nielsen is linking up with consumer insight company Kantar Worldpanel in an association that will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Justice Department said today it had reached a settlement with Penguin Group (USA), one of six companies it had accused of conspiring to raise prices of ebooks. The agreement, if approved by the court, would leave only two companies -- Apple and Macmillan -- facing the lawsuit, due to go to... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-12-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
At the heart of the debate between publishers and libraries over ebook pricing and lending is a simple question: do libraries increase book sales or cannibalize them? Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-12-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Chinese authorities have started investigating Amazon’s methods of selling ebooks in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
The New York Times has partnered with Byliner and Vook to publish original ebooks between 10,000 and 20,000 words and designed to be read in one sitting. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2012-12-17 00:00:00 UTC ]