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McHenry, IL -- June 22, 2009 -- Follett Digital Resources, a member of the Follett Corporation family of companies, today announced that ten additional publishers have signed major eBook distribution agreements with the company. With these agreements, a total of more than 52,500 K-12 and public library titles are now available for purchase online through…
Saul Hansell speculates for the New York Times that comments this week from Amazon's Jeff Bezos imply
The latest Kindle, the DX, launches Wed., June 17 and reviews of Amazon's latest, largest and most expensive e-reader device are already rolling in
Wiley Publishing Inc. announced today that CliffsNotes literature study guide applications are now available on the Apple App Store.
Trade e-book sales were $12,100,000 for April, a 228.3% increase over April 2008 ($3,700,000).
Scroll Motion's Iceberg Reader to make available more than 1 million books, 50 magazines
Amazon is now taking aim at the blogosphere.
An article in The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on an experiment conducted last year by Northwest Missouri State University in which the school provided a Sony Reader to every incoming student.
Who hasn’t tried the excuse, “My dog ate my homework,” on a teacher? Success with that excuse now is nearly impossible, according to experts in educational book publishing. So much of what teachers currently do involves digital materials and tools that, short of a network failure or computer glitch, a student would be hard-pressed to come up with a similar excuse.
"We’ve almost become accustomed to an uninterrupted flow of bad news,” said Michael Healy, executive director of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) at the organization’s sixth-annual Making Information Pay event, held May 7 at the McGraw-Hill Auditorium in New York City. Falling sales, shrinking margins, closing bookstores and job losses are among the negatives facing the industry, noted Healy.
