US retailer Barnes & Noble has reported a 46% rise in digital content sales for its fiscal... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
US bookseller Barnes & Noble has confirmed that it will be bringing its Nook digital eBook readers and bookstore to the UK in the autumn. Initially the devices, which include Nook Simple Touch and the Nook Simple Touch with GlowLight, will only be available through the company’s online... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-08-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple called the DOJ's proposed settlement to the ebook price fixing case 'fundamentally unfair, unlawful, and unprecedented.' Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Michael Joseph is launching a digital campaign to support publication of The Mystery of Mercy... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google has won the right to appeal the granting of class status to thousands of authors suing the search engine company over its ambitious plan to create the world's largest digital books library. Continue reading >> [ Source: Stuff | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Got an email from a “fan” outraged that a novel I’ve been working on for two years, six days a week is $13 in ebook. Enjoy your $4 coffee. – Author Brent Weeks, via Twitter Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins UK has described its annual performance as "strong", despite the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
US digital publisher Open Road is publishing the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series as... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Online retailer Amazon announces it sells more ebooks than hardbacks and paperbacks combined. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
An ebook being offered on the Kindle store for 20p has broken the top-three monopoly of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Department of Justice has filed a motion with Judge Denise Cote asking her to approve the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The organizer of the Kidwell-eFestival has vowed that the event will take place again, despite... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new study by the Book Industry Study Group says readers are choosing both print and ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]