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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
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 ]
The complaint says that Jobs was enlisted to sell high-ranking officials in the publisher’s parent company on the wisdom of the proposed pricing scheme. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2012-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A dozen books a year? Some writers are accelerating the pace in this brave new world of ebooks. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple was unable to have an antitrust lawsuit over the price of ebooks dismissed. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2012-05-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
A start-up digital textbook platform has agreed terms with 12 publishers ahead of a 1st September... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Amazon will never run out of copies of Harry Potter ebooks from its Lending Library. Thanks to a new agreement with Pottermore, on June 19th the entire seven-book collection will be among the 140,000 plus you can grab, provided, of course, that you're an Amazon Prime member. If you've forked... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-05-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Harry Potter ebooks are to be made available to borrow as part of the Kindle Owners'... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hachette Livre has today (4th May) reduced the retail prices of ebooks to the level of the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Pottermore ebook store sold £3m-worth of Harry Potter ebooks in its first month, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
All hail the ebook! Seriously, if it weren't for this marvelous literary development, try saying with a straight face that you wouldn't at least take pause before adding a new title to your collection. Numbers are in from The Publisher's Association -- a group of 120 companies across the trade... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
From time to time, we see movie studio Warner Bros. bring forth ways to give its oldies-but-goodies a longer life span. On this occasion, Warner's launching a novel eBook series titled "Inside the Script." The new release will give movie buffs a deeper look into a handful of the studio's films,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2012-05-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Digital book sales have gone up 54% in the past year to £243m but total book sales have fallen by 2%. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Justice Department's antitrust suit over eBook price fixing has is as deeply befuddling as it is important to the future of publishing. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Faber is releasing a series of six short ebooks, called Faber Forty-Fives, which each draw... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]