Eastday-City eyes lead in e-book sector
Shanghai is expected to take the lead in the e-book industry nationwide within three years, through the country's first e-book industry alliance and a...
Internet forces publishing company to close
PADUCAH - Some call it a side-effect of progress. A powerhouse in the publishing industry gets ready to close its doors and technology is to blame.......
Amazon: We have 70-80 percent of e-book market
Amazon's Kindle chief talks about the e-book industry and let it be known that he didn't think some of Amazon's competitors' numbers were adding up......
A climate change puts the heat on Penguin
The publishing industry is said to have been rocked back on its heels at news that ebooks have outsold hardback books on Amazon in the United States.....
Ex-White House Social Secretary to Lead Ebony and Jet Publisher
The former White House social secretary, who left Washington after a brief and bumpy ride, will take over as chief executive of the Johnson Publishing...
Wylie's Odyssey: Beginning of end for publishing houses?
The world of literary publishing used to be one of comfortable profit margins and three martini lunches.......
Digital Can't Replace Hard Copy - Authors
CAPE TOWN: Instead of being too concerned that digital books could blow away the book form, lovers of literature must start to think how best technolo...
U.S. romance novel publisher going digital
NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- A major U.S. publisher of paperback books says it is giving up mass-market print books and will make them available only on ...
Research and Markets: Global and China E-book Industry Report, 2009-2010
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/a1f435/global_and_china_e) has announced the addition of the...
The book that changed my life
In a speech he gave at the American Library Association, US President Barack Obama named Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" as a book that m...
The publishing house that Stieg Larsson built
When a backstreet publisher based near Baker Street, London, bought the rights to an obscure Swedish crime novel written by an unknown author who had ...
9 Reasons To Be Optimistic About Books
In the midst of one of the most disruptive transitions the modern publishing industry has ever experienced, it can be easy to give in to pessimism, fa...
The Two Minds of Amazon on eBooks
The CEO defends unadulterated reading, while his company plans to sell a type of e-book so media-rich and new that they don't even have a name yet E-b...
Anis Shivani: Independent Bookstore Spotlight: Interview with Claudia Maceo Sharp of The Twig Book Shop, San Antonio
In focusing on independent bookstores, I introduce you to The Twig Book Shop, long a fixture in San Antonio's literary community.......
3 Franklin County librarians at national conference
MONT ALTO -- Three area librarians on June 26 traveled to Washington, D.C., to share their work with library professionals from across the country at ...
Apple, Amazon probed over e-book price fixing
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating deals struck by Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. to offer low prices on electronic book...
Stockton, Missouri School Board Asked to Reconsider Book Ban
The American Library Association is asking an Ozarks school board to reconsider its decision to ban a novel.......
Inquiry opened on e-book pricing
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating deals struck by Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc. to offer low prices on electronic book...
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is investigating deals struck by Amazon.com Inc and Apple Inc to offer low prices on electronic books,...
Books: "The Thieves of Manhattan."
Crime caper meets metafictional satire of the publishing industry in this mischievous novel. Ian Minot, a hard-up writer from Indiana, moonlights as a...
Ms. Dawson: Many thanks for linking to the ISBNHour hashtag. Would you be willing to archive the tweets at an archiving service such as TwapperKeeper: http://twapperkeeper.com/ . That way we\’ll all be able to read the tweets after Twitter blocks access to them (after 10 days or so). Many thanks for considering this.
Comment by Robert Richards — February 18, 2010 @ 5:59 pm