Google has launched an affiliate program for its eBooks service, offering to pay commissions to Web publishers who promote titles on their sites and send buyers... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-06-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Wed, 15/06/2011 - 08:07 Random House Children's Books has released its first four-colour picture ebooks, marking the start of its ebook publishing programme for picture books. Digital editions will from now on be released alongside the physical... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
Apple's contact information page in the iOS 5 address book has a field not just for Twitter, but also offers space to add friends' handles on Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn and Myspace. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
By restricting purchases unnecessarily, ebooks and e-readers are a bad deal, says free software guru Richard Stallman. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-06-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
Unbridled Books is partnering with the American Booksellers Association to promote the organization’s IndieCommerce program. For three days Unbridled is offering 25 of its titles in ebook format for 25 cents exclusively through the approximately 250 independent bookstores that are set up to sell... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-06-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Fri, 03/06/2011 - 14:47 Canongate is planning to give a limited number of free ebook copies of Grow Up, the debut novel by 19-year-old Ben Brooks, ahead of its paperback publication in July. read more Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Fri, 27/05/2011 - 08:45 Bloomsbury's ebook sales topped £1.1m in the first three months of 2011, as the company reported its unaudited preliminary results for the fourteen months ended 28th February 2011. Revenue across the group was £103.4m for... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-05-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
A pricing war among the big guns of the book industry is causing pain at the checkout screen, but sprouting new opportunities for writers and readers. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-05-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
By Tim Conneally, Betanews Nature Publishing Group and California State University (CSU) on Tuesday announced a three-year partnership that will eliminate paper textbooks from certain classes, and replace them with interactive ebooks instead. Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2011-05-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers attending the Canadian Booksellers Association's National Conference in Toronto, May 1315, were introduced to innovations from two Canadian companies designed to help bricks-and-mortar stores sell ebooks. Transcontinental Printing demonstrated its ebook distribution system, which... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2011-05-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
Google's eBooks electronic bookstore now contains about 3 million free titles, up from 2 million when it was launched in December. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-05-23 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 ]
It happened. Amazon says ebook sales have surpassed physical book sales on Amazon.com. Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2011-05-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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 ]
While the Rapture isnt scheduled to occur until Saturday, according to members of certain religious fringe groups, it looks like doomsday has come early for publishers of print books. Amazon announced Thursday that sales of ebooks on the site have finally surpassed combined sales of hardcovers... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2011-05-20 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: 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 ]
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 ]