Google Play Store Now Selling Audiobooks and Boosting Content on Voice-Activated Devices

While hardly a shock that Google Play has started selling audiobooks, it's a moment to look at aspects of the format's sales-building prominence: the other way of 'reading.' The post Google Play Store Now Selling Audiobooks and Boosting Content on Voice-Activated Devices appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at 'Publishing Perspectives'

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German Cabinet Backs Law That Could Allow News Publishers to Sue Google

The German cabinet gave its backing Wednesday to a draft law extending copyright protection to snippets of news articles republished by search engines, although... Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2012-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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John Lewis to sell Nook

John Lewis has been named as the first retailer to sell Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-reader... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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B&N Will Rise or Fall with Content

While Barnes & Noble has created lots of buzz and headlines with its Nook e-reading devices, its future profitability lies in the sale of content. That was the message CEO William Lynch delivered to analysts last week in a conference call discussing first-quarter results. Improved gross... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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New stock focus boosts HMV book sales

HMV has seen a 16% rise in book sales year on year after refocusing its core offer back onto... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon launches India Kindle Store, swap rupees for good reads

Indian consumers haven't been cut off from Amazon's world of ebook goodies, but their experience is about to get a lot more native with the launch of a local Kindle Store. The prices of over a million books are now available in rupees, and if you're in need of hardware, the latest bare-bones... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For DRM-Free Content, Look for the New FSF Logo

This new label from the Free Software Foundation aims to help buyers find ebooks and other media distributed without digital rights management restrictions. Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2012-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon launches India Kindle store

Amazon has opened an India Kindle store on Amazon.com, as well as launching the device for sale... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Big Hits Keep Selling Well

Swedish crime writer Camilla Läckberg has seen international success since releasing her 2003 debut, Ice Princess (published in 2010 by Pegasus), and to date her books have been translated into 33 languages. In France, her 2008 novel The Drowning was the top title. Earlier this year, Pegasus... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Waterstones starts readying stores for Kindles

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[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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11 Other Localish Companies Google Might Buy

Early this week news broke that Google is acquiring the venerable guidebook publisher Frommers. That comes on the heels of the search giant's eye-opening deal to purchase Zagat last year. It can't be that Sergey and Larry just like to travel. Rather it seems clear that Google has a plan to... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Marketers get a refresher: Sex still sells

You've bought rope for that special someone, picked up a few sex toys and read those Fifty Shades of Grey books a time or three. You know who you are. Well, no need to skulk about at naughty shops or the hardware store as Fifty Shades of Consumption makes it further into the mainstream. Stuart... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2012-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Court lets Google appeal ebooks class status

Google has won the right to appeal the granting of class status to thousands of authors suing the search engine company over its ambitious plan to create the world's largest digital books library. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google buys Frommer’s Travel Guides

John Wiley & Sons work to sell off unwanted assets as Google makes its foray into the publishing industry. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-08-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google buys Wiley travel brand Frommer's

Google has bought the travel brand Frommer's from John Wiley & Son, in a move that sees... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Olympic boost for sports books

Retailers say sport could play a major part in the Christmas market, as publishers hasten to sign... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Big boost for sports books

Retailers say sport could play a major part in the Christmas market, as publishers hasten to sign... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Fifty Shades boosts US sales

The US book business is starting to reap the benefit of strong sales of the Fifty Shades of Grey... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Google Books case tests the limits of copyright law

The Authors Guild is seeking more than $2 billion in damages from Google Books – which may make this one of the most expensive copyright damages cases in litigation history. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-08-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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