The European Commission has announced it has opened formal antitrust proceedings to investigate... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Former Waterstone's m.d. Tim Coates is to launch Bilbary (www.bilbary.com), an international... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children's Books has produced a new app for classic picturebook Paddington,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-12-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Falco creator Lindsey Davis has become the new chair of the Society of Authors, vowing to... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Digital royalty rates paid to authors by publishers are increasing, though there remains... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Penguin UK is now withholding the supply of its new ebook releases to its library suppliers in... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
They publisher may want to make sure that library ebooks can't be easily stripped of DRM and kept by a borrower without penalty. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-11-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mark Cuban has 335,000 friends on Facebook and 760,000 followers on Twitter. Monday, the Internet billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team will test just how friendly those fans really are. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Bookseller Staff Publication Date: Tue, 15/11/2011 - 09:30 Books apps from Faber, NosyCrow, Penguin, HarperCollins and Transworld have been shortlisted for the FutureBook Innovation Awards, while new companies including 24Symbols, Anobii, and Unbound have been shortlisted in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Writing a how-to book in a static medium like paper about something as dynamic as Facebook is challenging at best and at worst...well...idiocy. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-11-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
Japanese e-commerce company Rakuten said on Tuesday that it plans to acquire Canadian ebook and e-reader company Kobo in a bid to expand in the area of media... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-11-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Mon, 07/11/2011 - 14:52 Digital publisher Andrews UK has released the first 3D video-supported ebook onto the market through Apples iBookstore. The company has included a six-and-a-half minute 3D film within the ebook A Dream of Christmas 3D, a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 03/11/2011 - 09:55 Penguin's ebook sales have more than doubled in the first nine months of 2011, as parent Pearson reported an increase in total sales of 3% and operating profit of 13%. Total sales at Penguin for the nine months to 30th... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Wed, 02/11/2011 - 08:20 Google has launched its ebook store in Canada, with the regional arms of Random House, HarperCollins, Penguin and Simon & Schuster signing up to the digital service. The publishers join Canadian houses such as D&M... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 01/11/2011 - 09:40 Sales and profit for 2011 have slumped at Edinburgh University Press at the same time the company has reported a 40% rise in year-on-year ebook sales. The Scottish academic publisher has reported an 11.6% fall in sales and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-11-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Mon, 31/10/2011 - 08:20 The first official sales charts including ebook sales data have been published in the Wall Street Journal this weekend, with Nielsen BookScan now supplying ebook sales reports to the US paper. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 28/10/2011 - 11:40 Faber c.e.o. Stephen Page will be among the speakers at this year's Futurebook Conference, with early bird rates for the digital conference ending today. Page will join Bloomsbury Publishing Group sales and marketing,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 27/10/2011 - 09:41 E-book sales and the acquisition of Continuum helped sales at Bloomsbury leap 16%, although relocation and restructuring costs led to pre-tax profit more than halving to £0.3m, in its latest set of financial accounts.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new social reading app called Subtext today launches on the iPad with a selection of books laden with annotations from authors and researchers. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Mon, 24/10/2011 - 08:10 Short Books has produced its first enhanced ebook for the digital version of Birdwatching with your Eyes Closed (3rd November), the new book from Simon Barnes, author of How to be a Bad Birdwatcher. The book explores the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-10-24 00:00:00 UTC ]