Kobo is to join the ranks of physical and online booksellers licensed by Pottermore to sell Harry... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'
[ The Bookseller | 2012-05-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Whether we like it or not, Amazon nearly always launches its new products and services in the US first. It happened with its Fire-branded tablets, set-top box and smartphone. The same can be said for its all-you-can-read ebook service, Kindle... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2014-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-book retailer Kobo has reached an agreement with Cartoon Books, the publishing company cofounded by cartoonist Jeff Smith, to release multi-volume digital editions of Smith's Eisner Award-Winning series Bone and RASL Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Susan Klebold, whose son Dylan was one of the two boys who killed 12 students and wounded 24 others at his high school in Columbine, Co., in 1999, has sold a memoir to Crown Publishers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Prepare for the 2014 Frankfurt Book Fair with our roundup of big projects that'll be making the rounds, among them books by Leslie Jamison, Richard Price, Amy Poehler, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Love it or hate it, you can't deny that Apple is a phenomenally successful company. But how has it managed to achieve this from a business that started in a garage? Mostly it hasn’t been by innovation but by taking technology that already existed and turning it into the devices that people want... Continue reading at Betanews
[ Betanews | 2014-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In its latest partnership, Kobo is now selling ebooks in conjunction with bol.com, the largest provider of ebooks in the Netherlands and Belgium. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At the 2nd ASEAN Ebook Conference, held in Kuala Lumpur, publishers discussed ways to catalyze the regional ebook industry, particularly in education. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-09-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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E-book retailer Kobo has reached an agreement with Blake eLearning to sell the company’s interactive Reading Eggs kids’ ebooks through the Kobo Kids’ Store. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-09-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This week, we reviewed the HTC One for Windows, investigated Amazon's controversial ebook-pricing model, played around with Hyperlapse, learned about LG's G Watch R and more! Read on for Engadget's news highlights from the last seven days. Oh, and... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2014-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For an ebook distributor to succeed in a developing market they need to adapt to methodologies, in particular payment mechanisms, already prevalent in that market. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Writer Germaine Greer has said that ebooks should “cost pennies” and accused people... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The US online retailer Amazon and French publisher Hachette are arguing over the cost of ebooks to those buying the products for their tablets and machines. Continue reading at BBC World
[ BBC World | 2014-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury Publishing has relaunched its Harry Potter website to complement the new book editions... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Now that eBooks have enabled anyone to be a published author, more would-be scribes are submitting their work directly through digital storefronts like Kindle Direct Publishing. Yet even with this radical change in the book industry, the e-publishing process is hardly simple. In fact the... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2014-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With Barnes and Noble reduced to borrowing Samsung tablets and Sony giving up altogether, only Kobo stands in the way of Amazon's total ebook domination. Now, the company is hoping to steal a march on its rival by introducing the first waterproof... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2014-08-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kobo is set to release the world’s first waterproof e-reader after finding customers would... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2014-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's not uncommon for libraries to offer ebooks in addition to dead-tree copies, but the newly opened Florida Polytechnic University takes its digital tome offerings a lot more seriously. The institution has decided to completely forego stocking its... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2014-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Kobo has added to its family of E-ink digital readers with the launch of the waterproof Kobo Aura H2O. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Today, we break down Amazon's controversial ebook-pricing model, learn about Ralph Lauren's smart shirt for athletes, anticipate LG's round-faced G Watch R and more! Read on for Engadget's news highlights from the last 24 hours. ... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2014-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unless you've been living in a book-free cave, you may have heard that retail giant Amazon and book publisher Hachette are having a little tiff. It's all about digital versions of books -- so-called ebooks -- and it boils down to this: Amazon wants... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2014-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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