The intensely private Thomas Pynchon has resisted the electronic format for his books – until now. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-06-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Thomas Pynchon, author of “Gravity’s Rainbow” and “The Crying of Lot 49,” characteristically declined to speak about his decision. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-06-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sainsbury's enters the digital books marketplace by buying HMV's stake in Anobii, an online retailer of ebooks, for just £1. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2012-06-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Japanese online booksellers are planning to circumvent sales tax collection by selling digital... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-06-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
Wattpad, a booming ebook community site, hosts five million stories, with 500,000 added per month. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Sony has decided to join the web-based shopping party, launching an online reader store for its e-inked devices and companion apps. Any e-Books purchased will arrive ready-to-read on the Reader app or other suitably wireless device, with titles also working on any Adobe DRM-supported apps and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-06-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Authors Guild is encouraging its 8,500 members to submit comments against the proposed settlement between the Department of Justice and three large publishers. The settlement, the guild argues, will only benefit Amazon. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-06-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
A New York-based software company is taking e-reading to a whole new nonlinear level. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
In response to a Justice Department lawsuit, the two book publishers denied any price fixing for ebooks and accuse Amazon of engaging in anticompetitive behavior. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2012-05-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Ebook-maker Inkling, which had previously confined its books to the iPad, is moving to the Web - a move the company has been promising for some time. The move means Inkling's books should be available on most laptops, though the company says it will work best on Google's Chrome and Apple's... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-05-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
A three month long dispute over the sale of digital books between Amazon.com Inc. and a leading independent book distributor has been resolved, both parties said Friday. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2012-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
The U.S. government has sided with monopoly rather than competition in bringing a case of ebook price-fixing against Apple, the company said in a filing on... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
E-books accounted for 9% of Bloomsbury's adult trade sales overall across the 12 months to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster becomes the latest publisher to settle an antitrust claim by a team of states, while Macmillan, Penguin, and Apple fight on. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Plain, ordinary text files aren’t normally the most interesting ways to convey information, but if you’d like to change that then Toolwiz FlipBook may be able to help. Just point the program at a particular TXT file, and in a click it’ll be converted into an executable file. And launching this... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2012-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
A US district judge has denied a motion to dismiss the civil suits filed against five publishers... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber is releasing its first ebook-only edition of a screenplay, for the forthcoming film "... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Curators of rare books are finding that blogging gives their discoveries greater exposure, an example of how virtual work can support even the most tactile of pursuits. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Kobo is to join the ranks of physical and online booksellers licensed by Pottermore to sell Harry... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
A federal judge on Tuesday denied Apple and several major book publishers’ motions to dismiss a class-action lawsuit that accuses the companies of conspiring to control the price of ebooks. In denying the request, Judge Denise Cote of the ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2012-05-16 00:00:00 UTC ]