Los Gatos, Calif.-based Smashwords, a publisher and distributor of multiformat e-books, has entered into an e-book distribution agreement with Sony Electronics. Smashwords offers a free e-book publishing platform to authors and publishers that gives them control over pricing, sampling and distribution of their works.
Barnes & Noble Inc.
This week IREX Technologies revealed the latest development in their collection of eReaders: the IREX DR800SG.
Barnes & Noble Inc. (B&N) announced today that downloads for both the B&N Bookstore app and the B&N eReader app for the iPhone and iPod touch have hit the 1 million mark.
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If the Internet has taught traditional media anything, it’s that valuable content should be protected or it will quickly lose its worth. Letting music, news articles or whatever fall into the hands of those who do not value it has been toppling old media companies left and right, and is likely to continue. Take newspapers: Had their stories not been copied, pasted, snarked upon and uprooted far from their original sources (and the advertisers), there wouldn’t be nearly as many journalists in the unemployment line today.
I was somewhat surprised to learn, through our annual reader survey, that almost 50 percent of Book Business readers do not currently offer e-books. And, of those who do publish e-books, most offer e-books of 30 percent or less of their titles.
3 Number of titles Harlequin Teen will publish in 2009, beginning with the late-July release of “My Soul to Take,” by Rachel Vincent. The imprint—which launched in July and is aimed at readers 12 to 18 years old—plans to release 17 titles in 2010.
Source: The Wall Street Journal, July 21, 2009
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
Barnes & Noble, the world's largest bookseller, has launched the Barnes & Noble eBookstore, which becomes the world's largest e-bookstore.
Elsevier offers gift cards for positive reviews.