Amazon.com said that it sold 105 ebooks for every 100 printed books, a milestone that its chief executive, Jeff Bezos, said had occurred sooner than expected. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2011-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
As a former Amazon Associate, I can tell you that a great many sales of Kindle Books are for the 99¢ complete Dickens, etc. Movie critic and Web publisher Roger Ebert, providing some context for Amazons stat about Kindle ebooks outselling print books. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 19/05/2011 - 09:15 The percentage of ebook purchases has dropped back from the high of the post-Christmas period, falling to 2.5% of all book purchases in volume over the four-week period to 20th March. In a presentation at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 19/05/2011 - 10:00 The percentage of ebook purchases has dropped back from the high of the post-Christmas period, falling to 2.5% of all book purchases in volume over the four-week period to 20th March. In a presentation at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
PW has a new Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pubweekly. We hope you'll come check us out over there, "like" us, and join the publishing business conversation in the interactive space that is Facebook. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-05-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Wed, 18/05/2011 - 14:45 The French National Assembly yesterday (17th May) voted into law a bill allowing publishers to fix prices of all ebooks sold in France. The text says that retailers inside or outside France must respect the fixed prices.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
Perhaps youve probably heard: Facebook and Google are at war, and Facebooks not afraid to play dirty. Thursdays revelation that the social networking site hired PR firm Burston-Marsteller to plant a negative story about Googles privacy settings raises a number of questions. Like, Who at... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2011-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Thu, 12/05/2011 - 09:19 Charlaine Harris, author of the Sookie Stackhouse series of novels, has become the latest writer to sell more than one million Kindle ebooks through Amazon. The author, who is published by Gollancz in the UK, joins Stieg... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Tue, 10/05/2011 - 15:49 Waterstone's could soon bring e-reading front of store in its physical bookshops in a manner similar to Barnes & Noble with its Nook in the US, according to e-commerce manager Alex Ingrams. Speaking to delegates at the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 06/05/2011 - 08:55 Random House has hit the landmark of two million ebooks sold in the UK, with other leading publishers reporting a first quarter explosion in digital sales. E-books currently account for 8% of RH's overall sales, with... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Barbara Casassus Publication Date: Thu, 05/05/2011 - 09:14 France is bracing for battle with the European Commission with its government on the verge of adopting a bill allowing publishers to fix prices for all ebooks sold in France. The bill, which was approved unanimously by an... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
Barnes & Noble Inc. will unveil a new electronic book reader later this month, the bookseller told analysts and investors on Wednesday, according to a federal filing released after the close of trading. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-05-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
All of those Amazon Kindle sales -- and, presumably, sales of competitive ebook readers from Barnes & Noble and Apple -- have made an impact at publisher Simon & Schuster. The CBS unit says Q1 digital sales doubled over the previous year, and now represent 18 percent of the company's the... Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-05-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Tue, 03/05/2011 - 09:22 The digital publishing market is now worth 6% of UK publishers' sales, the Publishers Association has revealed, with consumer digital sales up more than 300% in 2010 to £16mthe third year of treble digit growth. The PA... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Philip Jones Publication Date: Tue, 03/05/2011 - 11:42 E-book sales at Hachette UK quadrupled in the first quarter of 2011 and are more than 5% of HUKs trade sales, the company revealed today (3rd May), adding that it was beginning to catch up with the US, where ebooks now account... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Publishers Association have released new figures which explain how much damage ebooks are doing to their paper based alternatives. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC News | 2011-05-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The first time former U.S. vice president Al Gore issued his warning about the dire state of our environment, he used the traditional format of bound paper. To... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-04-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 28/04/2011 - 15:24 Penguin's ebook sales have doubled in the first quarter of 2011 compared to the same period in 2010, its parent company Pearson revealed in a statement today (28th April). In its interim management statement covering the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Benedicte Page Publication Date: Thu, 28/04/2011 - 15:39 UK publishers are locked in discussions with librarians over ground rules for ebook lending, with librarians continuing to press publishers to allow institutions to loan ebooks under the one ebook, one loan, model pioneered... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Wed, 27/04/2011 - 09:39 Amazon.com has reported a steep drop in profit despite boosting sales by over a third. Amazon.co.uk also revealed that one print book and four ebooks were among its top 10 bestselling items in the quarter, with the Kindle... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-04-27 00:00:00 UTC ]