July 1, 2011
Although Amazon reports selling more Kindle e-books than traditional books, print books are still the dominating force behind publishing sales.
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July 1, 2011
Looking for something liberating to read while you're 'on the road' (but not while you're driving!)? Jack Kerouac's legendary "On the Road" is now available.
June 13, 2011
This week, the iPad app world is frantically sorting through some recent changes in its environment. Apple has quietly altered its app approval policies in a way that will make publishers – in particular, subscription-based publishers like The New York Times – much happier.
Specifically, Apple has relaxed its control over whether apps can access content paid for outside of the App Store’s purchase APIs. The company has also given control over pricing content back to publishers, allowing them to price however they want, both outside and inside of the app.
June 9, 2011
Best-selling and award-winning author Michael Connelly joins an elite group being called by Amazon the "Kindle Million Club."
June 9, 2011
Britannica Digital Learning nonfiction e-book titles will now be available through a new digital portal, Ebooks.eb.com.
June 8, 2011
Last October, just before the deal-making frenzy of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the indie publisher Johnny Temple received an e-mailed book proposal that he was tempted to brush off.
The project, “Go the ____ to Sleep,” by Adam Mansbach, was an irreverent and foulmouthed parody of a children’s book, written in rhymey verse with profanities sprinkled throughout, giving frustrated voice to a universal problem for parents of small and stubborn children.
"At first I didn't really take it seriously, because it's so unlike anything that we publish," said Mr. Temple, the publisher of Akashic Books
June 7, 2011
No doubt you’ve heard that Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group USA and Hachette Book Group have agreed to create a shared website, to be called Bookish.com. They will provide start-up financing, but … at least 14 publishers will participate. … My first reaction was that this really speaks to that whiff of desperation in the air for publishers.
May 26, 2011
The formation of a new multinational "publisher friendly" e-book retailer specializing in business e-books was announced at BookExpo America on Tuesday.
May 18, 2011
Bowker, released its annual report on U.S. print book publishing, compiled from its Books In Print® database.
May 9, 2011
It has to be some kind of sign of the times that none of the expert presenters at the 8th Annual Making Information Pay conference of the Book Industry Study Group on May 5 bore the title of Publisher, Editor, Operations or Production executive.
Nonetheless, getting to the heart of the matter, “we can no longer go with gut instincts,” said Scott Lubeck, BISG Executive Director. … “Show me the data,” and we can point ourselves in the right direction.
