We love the Kindle Scribe, but it’s even better when you upgrade it with premium accessories—and for a limited time, you can score the Kindle Scribe Essentials bundle for less than you’d pay for the Scribe alone. It’s an absolute knock-your-pants-off bargain. This sweet bundle is now... Continue reading >> [ Source: PC World | 2024-06-27 15:32:46 UTC ]
Storing online data in perpetuity is not just about photos and texts but thoughts and ideas. Platforms such as WordPress are starting to act, but it must be at a realistic priceWay back in 2004 the two founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, thought that it would be a cool idea to scan... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2023-11-25 16:00:53 UTC ]
Record sales show that even the ability to carry thousands of books in one portable electronic device is not enoughIn 2009, when Amazon’s Kindle ebook was launched in the UK, it seemed impossible to imagine that a dozen years later booksellers would be reporting a record year of sales of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-01-15 17:00:27 UTC ]
Printed book sales plunge in first six months of 2020 on back of shop and school closuresSee all our coronavirus coverageSales of digital books by British publishers are set to hit an all-time high this year as the public turns to reading to escape pandemic cabin fever.However, the ebook and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-11-14 07:00:02 UTC ]
Last week some £33m worth of printed books were sold through the Nielsen BookScan universe, including for the first time since the end of March high street bookshops in England and Northern Ireland. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-25 23:28:04 UTC ]
It’s pretty obvious that the book industry, along with nearly all other businesses, will be hammered by the plague. The damage is somewhat mitigated by online ordering and delivery of printed books from you-know-who and by digital delivery of e-books and audiobooks. But that cannot compensate... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-06-01 14:21:00 UTC ]
Rishi Sunak confirmed ebooks and online newspapers will no longer be subjected to sales tax The government will abolish the 20% “reading tax” on ebooks and online newspapers from December, although it is unclear whether publishers will pass the full saving on to customers.Printed books and... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2020-03-11 19:46:19 UTC ]
The export-reliant UK industry's publishers association raises the alarm, having invoiced close to US$160 million in printed books last year. The post UK Publishers Association Slams Trump Tariffs: Book Exports as ‘Collateral Damage’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2019-10-04 12:53:41 UTC ]
The EU's Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin) today agreed on a proposal which will allow all member states to give ebooks the same VAT-free status as printed books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-10-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
The head of publisher Hachette has claimed ebooks are a failure – but as an author and a reader, they’ve completely changed my lifeI was a relatively late convert to the e-reader, getting my Kindle five years ago when it became clear that reading 600-pages of A Suitable Boy while breastfeeding... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2018-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Federation of European Publishers (FEP) has spoken out against the delay in the adoption of a proposal to allow VAT on ebooks to be reduced to match the rate on printed books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the history of information technologies, Gutenberg and his printing press are (understandably) treated with the kind of reverence even the most celebrated of modern tech tycoons could only imagine. So perhaps it will come as a surprise that Europe’s literacy rates remained fairly stagnant for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2017-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
The European Court of Justice has said VAT on ebooks cannot be reduced to that of printed books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
It seems that our love affair with ebooks could be turning sour. For the first time since digital book sales were recorded, the number of ebooks sold in the UK dropped in 2015. The drop could be partly explained by the fact that we seem to be reading less in recent years. While sales of printed... Continue reading >> [ Source: Betanews | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Adult colouring book craze and 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland helped revival in traditional publishing last yearSales of printed books have grown for the first time in four years, lifted by the adult colouring book craze and 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland, as ebooks suffered... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2016-05-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
It's a fact: even though printed books are not yet dead, there's an increasing number of people who are turning to ebooks to read their favorite book. Trajectory, a Marblehead-based company launched three years ago by two technology veterans, seeks to not only help publishers distribute their... Continue reading >> [ Source: Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2015-03-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Frank Schembari loves books — printed books. He loves how they smell. He loves scribbling in the margins, underlining interesting sentences, folding a page corner to mark his place. Schembari is not a retiree who sips tea at Politics ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Editor & Publisher | 2015-02-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The UK is looking increasingly isolated in charging 20% VAT on ebooks after two more European countries lowered their rates to be in line with print books. Italy has ruled that VAT on ebooks will be cut from the standard 22% to 4% so it matches the rate imposed on printed books. Meanwhile,... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-12-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
But that doesn't necessarily mean printed books and linear television will die out by 2020, suggest expertsAre these the best of times or the worst of times for the children's entertainment industry? A panel session at the Children's Media Conference explored the question, concluding... well, it... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-07-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Printed books will be outsold by ebooks by 2018, a new report by Pricewaterhouse Coopers suggests. Continue reading >> [ Source: BBC World | 2014-06-04 00:00:00 UTC ]