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Earlier this month, research company Flurry (Flurry.com) reported that between April and July, the number of digital book application users increased by 300 percent. In July, Flurry tracked nearly 3 million active e-book application users on smartphones. While these numbers may make many book publishers think, "We need to start offering this," a number of publishers already are active in the mobile e-book application space, including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH).
Sales of e-paper displays expected to nearly quadrouble this year.
E-books will be available via Google in EPUB format.
IREX Technologies, a digital reading service provider, announced Monday that the upcoming release of its e-reader later this year will include the Barnes & Noble eBookstore
Sony will launch a $399 wireless e-reader
Jane Friedman's OpenRoad Integrated Media Secures $3 Million in Funding
Sony Reader and OverDrive Sign Library Marketing Agreement
The "Reader Touch Edition" will sell for less than $300
A report on TheBookSeller.com sourcing anonymous book publishers says that Sony
Last year, Amazon’s 10-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission listed publishers as its competitors in addition to bookstores and others—which started a flurry of chatter in the industry concerning the threat the online retailer poses to publishers in general. The nervous types worry that Amazon will eventually remove the need for middlemen like agents, distributors and even traditional publishers, as they create a one-on-one author/reader experience and purchasing system.
