e-publishing, etc.

After a solid year, I've decided to put the blog e-publishing, etc. to sleep. No time. Just no time at all. Like so many other dead blo...

The Bookseller : "Spending in March has hit a six-year low, with sales slumping by 8.7% year on year."

PW : "In an unusual social media venture that brings together Google and Facebook, BookGlutton.com founder Travis Alber is releasing Re...

mobiputing : "There’s a new version of Google Books for iOS, which is optimized for the Apple iPad thanks to a new landscape mode that ...

The more "Big [though shrinking] Six" publishers artificially and absurdly inflate eBook prices, as they've been doing, the mo...

PW : "The academic publisher Continuum has launched its own e-bookstore, Continuum eBooks. Continuum expects to have 2,000 titles in th...

Reuters : "Since 1980, Nicholas Callaway has made the finest of design-driven books, building a publishing house and his fortune on mem...

Digital Book World : "Gather a group of digital publishing pros and usability experts in the same (virtual) room, and the discussion ge...

Tom Keane, The Boston Globe : ... There are a great many business ideas where some entrepreneur can strike it rich; [brick-and-mortar] book...

DesignTAXI.com : "The Museum of Modern Art has launched a free iPad app that allows users to download and read eBooks published by the ...

CS Monitor : "In an Amazon era when many readers browse bookstores at leisure, then log into Amazon to place their order, bricks and mo...

My start-up does the same for both print and digital. Full partnership with authors.  PW : "With e-book royalty rates still a contentio...

Zacks : "News International, a subsidiary of News Corporation, which began charging readers for online content for The Times of London ...

PW : "Led by a 250% increase in e-book sales, strong lists and favorable exchange rates, total revenue at Random House rose 6.1%, to 1....

PCWorld : "When there's a paywall, there's a way, and there are no shortages of methods to dodge or dissemble The New York Time...

PW : "While digitizing poetry collections wasn't anyone's first priority, the time has come, and, in one way or another, most o...

Businessweek : " ... The liquidators must sell as much as possible before their contract expires in order to maximize profit. Afterward...

AppleInsider : "Amazon is actively enticing Apple's iOS App Store developers to bring their efforts to the Kindle platform, particu...

Nieman : "On Tuesday, US Judge Denny Chin rejected a settlement agreement between Google, the Association of American Publishers, and t...

Chris Meadows,  TeleRead: : "Barnes & Noble has announced a big update for the Nook Color e-reader coming in April which will inclu...

Businessweek : Even with Barnes & Noble Inc. selling for 60 cents on the dollar, the cheapest retailer in America still isn’t cheap eno...

Crave - CNET : " While plenty of people have "rooted" their Nook Colors with custom firmware that allows them to access the A...

MinnPost : "Amanda Hocking, aka the 'Kindle millionaire,' has signed a seven-figure, four-book deal with St. Martins Press ... ...

CrunchGear : "You can now download more than 50,000 Audible.com audiobooks on your Kindle via your Wi-Fi connection. You’ve always been...

Insightful analysis from  Albanese, PW : "In the hours after Judge Denny Chin rejected the proposed Google Book Settlement, publishers ...

NY Times : "SAN FRANCISCO — Now that a judge has curtailed Google’s ambitions to create a giant digital bookstore and library, the comp...

NY Times : "No matter where you set the target date for that tipping point, digital textbooks certainly just received a strong shove in...

NYTimes : "Chegg is known as the Netflix of college textbooks. The Silicon Valley start-up, which has raised more than $200 million in ...

Carnoy, CNET : "Amazon's app motto is, 'Buy once, read everywhere' and it ran a series of What if you switch?-themed TV ads...

Note: Kindle = 67% eReader market. Nook = 22%.  BloggingStocks : "The biggest threat to Barnes & Noble emerged over the past few ye...