A ebook literary festival expecting up to 20,000 visitors ends early after only 100 show up. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Tim Cooper, commercial director of Harlequin, has spoken out over the inclusion of one of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo is due to launch a country-wide roadshow to showcase its ebook offering to independent... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
Polarised views on low ebook prices have been raised this week, as Sony and Amazon continue to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
For serial entrepreneur John Ossenmacher, cofounder, president, and CEO of ReDigi, which bills itself as “the world’s first pre-owned digital marketplace,” the copyright infringement case filed by Capitol Records in U.S. District Court in Manhattan at the start of the year to shut it down is... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Arrow has acquired six novellas that follow on from Francine Pascal's adult novel, Sweet... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Authors Stephen King and Stewart O’Nan are embarking on a new short fiction project to be... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
Headline has acquired contemporary erotic novel, Because You Are Mine by Beth Kery, and will... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Department of Justice defends its deal with three big publishers it accused of price-fixing. And it previews its coming court fight with Apple. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Random House has announced plans for the creation of a digital one-stop shop to aid the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Little, Brown c.e.o. Ursula McKenzie was among those speaking out against low-priced ebooks at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
A prominent Senate Democrat sided with Apple this week, and called on the Justice Department to drop its ebook lawsuit against the Cupertino, Calif. company. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) wrote in an opinion piece that appeared in the Wednesday edition of the Wall Street Journal that a victory... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sen. Charles Schumer wrote in an op-ed that the Department of Justice's lawsuit could 'wipe out the publishing industry as we know it.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Angry Robot’s ebook initiative, which sees independent bookshop customers receive a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Believe it or not, but that whole ebook price fixing fiasco is still an ongoing issue for the Justice Department. New York's senior senator, Chuck Schumer wishes it wasn't however, he simply wants the DOJ to drop the case and walk away. In a lengthy (factually questionable) op-ed in the Wall... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
US publishers' sales of ebooks more than doubled in 2011, meaning that the digital book is... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sales of ebooks doubled in 2011. But books are still an analog business, by a wide margin. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The ebook format became the most popular one for adult fiction in 2011, surpassing hardcover books and paperbacks, according to an annual survey. Net revenue from ebook sales over all more than doubled from 2010. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Japan is set to fully enter the ebook age with four high-profile device launches in the next few... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bookshops are being offered 40% commission on the sale of books simply by hanging a poster in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-07-13 00:00:00 UTC ]