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The Publishing Business Conference & Expo (PBC) today announced a roster of speakers for the 2010 show, highlighted by top executives from publishing companies including HarperCollins, Oxford University Press, Springer Science + Business Media, Pearson and DailyLit
Global research and advisory firm mediaIDEAS and NAPCO, publishers of Publishing Executive and Book Business magazines announced today the first TH(ink) E-readers 2010 Summit
Trade e-book sales statistics for October in the U.S. amounted to a 254.3-percent increase over October 2008, according to data from the Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF).
The Google book project began in 2002 as an effort to digitize millions of books. In December 2004, Google announced that it had entered into agreements with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford, as well as the New York Public Library to "digitally scan books from their collections so that users worldwide can search them in Google." Google's press release said that it would make available "brief excerpts" of copyrighted material but that its use of these works would comport with copyright law.
Starting Friday, Dec. 11, Sony will make offer its inventory of e-books in EPUB format only.
Sony's eBook Store will be relaunched Friday, Dec. 11 as the Reader™ Store, available at a new address, readerstore.sony.com
Here are the best ways to begin or continue to get traction in the digital realm in 2010.
The Publishing Business Conference & Expo announced today that Steve Forbes, chairman and CEO of Forbes Media and editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine, will be the featured guest at PBC's Keynote Event: a Q&A with Steve Forbes
This week, Aptara announced the release of eGen − ePub conversion software that can generate large volumes of content that is e-book compatible, less costly than other available conversion solutions and ready for distribution to multiple e-book readers.
Not long after kicking off a commemoration of its 60 years in the publishing industry, Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. now has another cause for celebration—the announcement this week of its launch of Carina Press, a digital-only publishing house.
