Harry Potter Joining Kindle's Lending Library
Amazon has purchased an exclusive license from Pottermore to loan all seven Harry Potter the titles as e-books through the Kindle Owners' Lending Library. more...
Content / e-books
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
Peter Collingridge, cofounder of the digital publishing firms Apt Studio and Enhanced Editions, in addition to Bookseer, a book marketing analytics technology, has been hired as v-p of product development at Safari Book Online.
Content / e-books
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
Coinciding with its 45th anniversary, S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders is now available as an e-book from all major retailers, priced at $9.99 for Kindle and Nook. The announcement was made May 15 by Don Weisberg, president, Penguin Young Readers Group.
Content / e-books
05/15/2012 @ 12:00AM
In a decision handed down Tuesday, Judge Denise Cote denied motions by Apple and five publishers seeking to dismiss the class action lawsuit brought against them for what the suit contends is fixing e-book prices when they moved to the agency pricing model.
Copyright
05/14/2012 @ 12:00AM
After nearly a year of deliberation, Judge Orinda Evans last week delivered the long awaited verdict in Cambridge University Press et al. v. Patton case, the Georgia State University e-reserve case.
Copyright
05/14/2012 @ 12:00AM
The Association of American Publishers has released a statement on Friday's ruling in Cambridge University Press et al v. Patton et al, the e-reserves case at Georgia State University, expressing disappointment and calling some of the court's fair use findings "mistaken."
Content / e-books
05/14/2012 @ 12:00AM
Arthur Klebanoff, head of RosettaBooks, told PW that the titles' inclusion as May 13's Gold Box deal made the increase in sales "stratospheric."
Content / e-books
05/11/2012 @ 12:00AM
Stanford University Press has started a digital imprint called Stanford Briefs, which will release short e-originals on a variety of academic topics.
Conferences
05/07/2012 @ 12:00AM
The “Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book” conference held at MIT looked at forms the book might take, including DNA in a bacterium.
Content / e-books
05/07/2012 @ 12:00AM
ProQuest has unveiled a new on-demand research service called Udini that bundles a wide range of resources, including peer-reviewed academic and trade journal articles, from thousands of participating publishers for use by independent researchers.
Content / e-books
05/07/2012 @ 12:00AM
As e-books continue to capture more readers that had read mass market paperbacks, Simon & Schuster is re-launching its Pocket Star mass market line as an e-book only imprint.
The Roundup for Digital
Publishing news from across the Web
The United States Postal Service has banned all international shipments of electronics with lithium batteries effective May 16. The cost for families to send gadgets via private parcel service to enlisted loved ones in some countries could almost quadruple.
BBC: In the U.K., consumer e-books leapt by 366% in 2011 helping to offset a decline in the demand for printed books.
Why is Amazon's tablet slumping?
Yu Kuo-ting, chairman of the Taipei-based Taiwan E-book Association, said: "By 2015, the number of e-book readers and tablets is expected to exceed 2 million units in Taiwan."
Barbara Vey
While I'm visiting St. Louis, author Jeannie Lin caught a Tweet I posted about coffee at a local cafe. She contacted me and we met up for a wonderful visit....
Josie Leavitt
We are blessed with a rich and vibrant core of local authors in our town. When a customer comes to us with his or her book we do our best to herald the occasion. I'm discovering that my idea of herald...
Rose Fox
Help compile lists of Asian and Asian-American SF/F authors....
Adam Boretz
Our second feature in Publishers Weekly's Focus on Audio 2012 takes us inside a Random House Audio recording studio to see how an audiobook gets made as Marcus Samuelsson records his memoir, Yes, Chef...
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