NEW YORK - A literary agency's decision to publish e-editions of "Lolita," "Invisible Man" and other classics and sell them exclusively through Amazon.com received a mixed response from the Authors Guild, which represents thousands of published writers....

Hosted by Global Leaders Institute, world digital publishing industry leaders will convene at Digital Publishing Asia Pacific 2010 on November 16th and 17th in Beijing China. The two-day executive summit will examine the hot-button issues facing the digital publishing industry and explore partnering opportunities in the industry in China....

Amazon.com, the huge online bookseller, announced that for the last three months, sales of e-books for its e-reader, the Kindle, had handily outpaced sales of hardbacks. Amazon was selling 143 Kindle books for every 100 hardcover books. But in the last month that margin had expanded to 180 e-books to every 100 hardcovers — perhaps because the company slashed the price of a Kindle from $259 to ......

In 1450, or shortly thereafter, Johannes Gutenberg produced a Bible using a press and movable type, thus launching the Western publishing industry....

AP - Shares of Amazon.com Inc. took a hit in premarket trading Friday after the online retailer posted second-quarter earnings laden with heavy operating costs that surprised investors....

"Fear and loathing among the movers and shakers of America's publishing industry reached new heights late last night with both Random House and Macmillan denouncing top literary agent Andrew Wylie's move into digital publishing."...

The literary agent Andrew Wylie starts his own publishing venture, prompting Random House to cut ties with his agency. ...

Reuters - Amazon.com Inc quarterly earnings fell far short of Wall Street estimates, hurt by a jump in operating expenses as it cut prices on its Kindle electronic reader and other merchandise, sending its shares down 14 percent....

Reuters - Amazon.com Inc quarterly earnings fell far short of Wall Street estimates as operating expenses surged, sending its shares down 14 percent....

Reuters - Amazon.com Inc quarterly earnings fell far short of Wall Street estimates as operating expenses surged, sending its shares down 14 percent....