Amazon’s Licensing Vonnegut for Fan Fiction Draws Fire

Amazon announced a Kindle World license for the books of Kurt Vonnegut, but not everyone thinks it's a great idea. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-08-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Apple 'in talks' over Women's Prize for Fiction sponsorship

Apple has held talks with the organisers of the Women's Prize for Fiction with a view to... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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James 'has outsold Potter' on Amazon UK

E L James Fifty Shades trilogy has out-sold J K Rowling’s seven-book Harry Potter series on... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Licensed Characters Add Spice to Cookbooks

Licensing has long played an important role in the cookbook category. While most of the action has been in brands and cooking shows that have been extended into licensed cookbooks, more recently quite a few characters and entertainment properties have entered the category, and those deals have... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Picks Up Market Share

Amazon appears to have been the big winner in picking up former Borders customers. According to new figures from Bowker Market Research, Amazon’s share of book spending in the first quarter of 2012 was 29%, up from 23% in the comparable period in 2011. Barnes & Noble’s share of spending, in... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-07-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Spalding success for Amazon

Amazon UK has announced another self-published author has sold well though its retail site,... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon puts 50MB limit on 3G Kindle's 'free' experimental browser

Sad news for global freeloaders travellers looking to keep up with Gmail and Twitter on their Amazon e-reader. The online book seller has started closing in on excessive free web browsing, policing a 50MB data limit on its keyboard Kindle iterations. According to users on MobileRead, you'll... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-07-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Is Amazon Making A 10-inch Tablet?

News updates all day from Fast Company.Amazon is getting ready to introduce new tablets, Staples' president of U.S. retail, Demos Parneros, told Reuters Monday.Parneros said the online retailer will introduce five or six new tablet SKUs, or stock-keeping units, including those for a 10-inch... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2012-07-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author expects fiction revolution

The rise of ebooks will "fundamentally change" the types of stories that are written and who they are written by, award-winning author Denise Mina predicts. Continue reading at BBC News

[ BBC News | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dress Up Your Kindle Fire or iPad as a Vintage Book With These Covers

These cases let you make your Kindle Fire or iPad look like a vintage copy of Moby Dick or The Great Gatsby. Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2012-07-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-books 30% of US adult fiction trade sales

US publishers' sales of ebooks more than doubled in 2011, meaning that the digital book is... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fans in their thousands at Comic-con

Comic-Con, which attracts more than 125,000 people over four days, is a pop culture showcase where fans of comic books and science fiction movies gather. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2012-07-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Dixon says no Kindle Fire launch date

Electrical retailer Dixons has said that it is waiting on Amazon to confirm the release date in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon partners with Co-op for collection lockers

Amazon has partnered with Co-operative Food to install collection-lockers in some of its stores... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-06-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon Audible hits WP 7.5: gesture controlled audiobooks, but no voice control

It didn't land in the Marketplace yesterday as announced, but Amazon's Audible audio book app for Windows Phone 7.5 is now available for download. This Metro-fied version of the app is free to install (including some short samples to get you started), and signing in with your Amazon account lets... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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PSA: Entire Harry Potter series now available on Amazon's Kindle Owners' Lending Library

Fancy dipping back into the world of Quidditch and Dumbledore? Or maybe you shunned the whole Pottermania thing until now. Either way, if you own a Kindle, you can finally get up to speed without paying a spellbinding price -- thanks to Amazon's Kindle Owners Lending Library. All seven eBook... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Zombie competition for Higson fans

Puffin is offering Charlie Higson fans the chance to appear as a zombie in the trailer to promote... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Harry Potter books land in Amazon's Kindle Owners' Lending Library

All seven Harry Potter books are now available in the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, marking the series' first availability outside the Pottermore store. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jacket Copy: Amazon categorizes Rodney King's memoir as 'criminal biography'

After Rodney King's unexpected death this weekend at the age of 47, his recent book began climbing the charts. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pop-up radio at Foyles for Fiction Uncovered

Fiction Uncovered will be running a four-day pop-up radio station, Fiction Uncovered FM at Foyles... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-06-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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What's Behind Amazon's Kindle App Tweak?

Today Amazon announced that it's improving the code behind its Kindle app for iOS and Android to allow support for graphic novels and children's illustrated comics. The iOS app is also being polished to alow better searches of your library of downloaded titles and to better fit the iPad's... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2012-06-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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