AASL's Exploratorium to showcase school library best practices
CHICAGO - The American Association of School Librarians ( AASL ), a division of the American Library Association ( ALA ), is making available its line...
Stock up on fun children's reading kits with PLA's summer sale
CHICAGO — From now until Aug. 31, 2011, take 40 percent off three unique children's reading kits from the Public Library Association ( PLA ). PLA an...
Facebook buys digital bookmaker Push Pop Press
Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, but the social network makes it clear that it won't be getting into the book-publishing industry. Originally pos...
Facebook acquires digital bookmaker Push Pop Press
The companies did not say how much Facebook acquired the firm for, but the social network made it clear it won't be getting into the digital-book publ...
AASL to sponsor four Spectrum Scholars at AASL national conference
CHICAGO - The American Association of School Librarians ( AASL ), a division of the American Library Association ( ALA ), will sponsor the attendance ...
Creative Commons at the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issuesa�Congress
Last month, CC participated in the yearly SERCI congress, which took place in Bilbao, Spain. SERCI is the Society for Economic Research on Copyright I...
Indian publisher to distribute content electronically
With the publishing industry gradually witnessing a paradigm shift from print to digital and the huge popularity of Indian writers, Konark Internation...
State tax laws restrict major players in e-commerce arena
E-commerce giants Amazon.com and Overstock.com terminated all advertising contracts with California affiliates early last month, shortly after the Sta...
Reuters - Amazon.com Inc shares, just below their all-time high, could rise 10 percent to 25 percent if its capital spending translates to fast growth...
Local publisher earns national recognition
Bloated Toe publisher Larry Gooley was recently interviewed by Publishers Weekly for an article on his publishing company and the future of the indust...
NPR Bestsellers: Week Of July 28, 2011
A survey of independent bookstores nationwide.......
LSI suit: Barnes & Noble's Nook uses stolen technology
Company files lawsuit, saying electronic book reader violates 11 of its patents. Barnes & Noble is part of an innovation changing the face of the publ...
From news within the publishing industry to literary dispatches, here's your morning roundup from around the Web:The publisher Little, Brown & Company...
NPR Bestsellers: Week Of July 21, 2011
A survey of independent bookstores nationwide.......
Reuters - Amazon.com Inc will use its surging revenue to boost growth and drive expansion into areas such as Web content and cloud computing rather th...
Reuters - Amazon.com Inc will use its surging revenue to boost growth and drive expansion into areas such as Web content and cloud computing rather th...
E-commerce boom tempts Amazon to test Indian market
The online retailer Amazon.com is poised to enter India and could start operations next year in a country where a growing middle-class could substanti...
Reuters - Amazon.com Inc reported a surge in quarterly revenue on sales of its kindle electronic reader and other electronics and forecast far better-...
Reuters - Amazon.com Inc reported a surge in quarterly revenue and said revenue for the current quarter would be better than expected, sending its sha...
What's Old is New Again: O'Reilly Publishes Time-Release eBook Experiment
If "lean startups" these days are supposed to release a minimum viable product, get reactions from initial customers, and then rapidly iterate - might...