Current Headlines - Feb 26, 2010
Six global publishers—Bedford, Freeman and Worth Publishing Group, a subsidiary of Macmillan; Cengage Learning; Elsevier; John Wiley & Sons; The McGraw-Hill Companies; and Pearson Education—have obtained an injunction against Swiss-based file-sharing site Rapidshare.com. The judgment, handed down by a German...
This week, San Francisco-based social publishing company Scribd launched two new products designed to simplify mobile reading. The first of these products, a send-to-device reading feature, is now live on more than 10 million Scribd documents, enabling consumers to send...
It's been all over the news the past few days that Vook, the startup venture that developed a multimedia platform for books that intregrates digital books with video, pictures and social media, has secured $2.5 million in funding. According to...
If you're like most book publishers, you're always interested in finding new ways to increase unit sales, revenue and profits. One way to achieve this goal is to tap into new markets for your current titles. Easier said than done?...
I like to think I'm a pretty easy-going guy. I don't usually get mad at too many things, and try to take a reasoned, fact-based approach to issues. But I have to admit, nothing gets my blood boiling quite like...
Quite honestly, as a consumer, I rarely see a marketing campaign for a book that excites me, or gets people talking. I understand that book publishers generally don't have the marketing budgets to support big, splashy campaigns for a single...
Archived Headlines
E-book Site TeleRead.org Acquired by North American Publishing
Feb 12, 2010
Arcadia First U.S. Book Publisher to Adopt 100-percent Use of FSC Paper
Feb 12, 2010
Baker & Taylor and Wiley Partner to Offer Rich Digital Media Content on Blio
Feb 12, 2010
Copyright Issues in a Digital World Continue to Cause Book Publishers Angst
Feb 12, 2010
