Online retailer reports sales of its digital ebooks has outstripped those of traditional paperbacks. Continue reading at 'PC World'
[ PC World | 2011-01-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hachette Children's Books has begun making its picture books available as ebooks from... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Simon & Schuster Children’s Books is predicting this Christmas and Boxing Day will be... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A patent, titled “Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface,” gives Apple the exclusive right to the page turn in an e-reader application. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A 50% year-on-year increase in digital sales at Cambridge University Press contributed to a... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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As anticipated, the Nook tablet e-readers, the Nook HD and HD+, have gone on sale in the UK today... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Hilary Mantel, James Meek, Stephen May and Joff Winterhart are in the running for best novel in the Costa Book Awards shortlists Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Booksellers across the UK have put up signs in their windows reading 'We pay our taxes' in response to a hearing by the Public Accounts Committee on Amazon's business practices. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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An unlikely band comes together to heroically achieve a goal. A writhing sequence of events beset with bloody struggles, mysterious moments, and difficult obstacles overcome. This is the story of how Houghton Mifflin, HarperCollins, and Yudu brought Peter Jackson's production of Tolkien's... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin has bought the Puffin Book Club back from The Book People. The club was originally... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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OverDrive surveyed library users and found they buy an average of 3.2 books (both print and ebooks) each month, with 35% buying after borrowing. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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CourseSmart has introduced an analytics program that allows professors to monitor how pages read, notations and more for their student's e-textbooks. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Australian publisher APN is putting its South Island newspapers on the block including The Star in Christchurch and the Oamaru Mail. It is also intending to sell the Capital Community Newspaper group in Wellington but is keeping the weekly free Kap ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Newspapers have appealed to consumers to boycott Amazon this Christmas following its statements... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James Daunt has said Waterstones booksellers must work harder to meet customers’ needs... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bilingual Books has entered into a distribution agreement with Publishers Group West for PGW to handle the U.S. sales, marketing and distribution of BBKS’ approximately 40 language-learning titles. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tim Godfray, chief executive of the Booksellers Association, has backed the stance taken by House... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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O'Reilly Media has become an online distributor for technology ebooks offered by John Wiley & Sons, which includes brands such as For Dummies and Sybex. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2012-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The National Book Awards were given to writers Louise Erdrich and first-time author Katherine Boo in the fiction and nonfiction categories, respectively, while William Alexander and David Ferry were awarded the young people's literature and poetry prizes. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Erdrich's 'The Round House' wins for fiction and Boo's book chronicling life in a Mumbai slum wins for nonfiction. David Ferry wins for poetry and 'Goblin Secrets' wins Young People's Literature.Novelist Louise Erdrich and journalist Katherine Boo took the top prizes at the National Book Awards... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A leading retail m.d. has said the government must "address the Amazon problem" in... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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