Industry News
Google eBookstore Launches in Australia
7th November, 2011On the heels of opening its doors in the UK and Canada, the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) eBookstore launched today in Australia. Google is also launching its affiliate program today in all three countries.
Barnes and Noble Unveils New 'Nook' Tablet for $249
7th November, 2011Bookseller Barnes and Noble has revamped its popular 7-inch color e-book reader today. Simply called the Nook Tablet, the new version will sell for $249 starting next week, and features a 1GHz dual-core processor to power playback of HD movies, video...
B&N Sold “Millions” Of Nooks, Nook Color Is “A Top Selling” Low-Priced Tablet
7th November, 2011Ebook creators are notoriously tight-fisted with their sales stats but today William Lynch, CEO of B&N, announced the company has sold "millions" of devices and said the Nook Color was one of the top selling low-priced tablets, placing the compan...
Amazon Prime's Free Kindle E-Book List Leans on Filler, Public Domain
7th November, 2011The Kindle Owners' Lending Library sounds like a good deal, with more than 5,000 Kindle e-books available for free if you have an Amazon Prime subscription. But many of the most popular titles are filler in the form of public domain books, self-help ...
Publishing Options for Your Book
5th November, 2011How Will Your Book Be Published? ??Let?s talk today about publishing and what are your options for your book now that you have a manuscript. (If you don't have a traditional publisher like a Simon and Schuster or a McGraw Hill, we will need to talk a...
Rumor: Barnes & Noble Prep New Tablet
4th November, 2011Sitting down? Good. Come November 16th, Amazon's Kindle Fire will have company....
The Perfect Cover Letter, From World War II
4th November, 2011This is a guest post by Chandlee Bryan, a New York, NY career coach, resume writer, and co-author of The Twitter Job Search Guide (JIST Publishing, 2010). Prior to starting her own private practice, Best Fit Forward, Chandlee worked in career offices...
Has China found the future of publishing?
4th November, 2011Self-publishing websites, where readers pay small premiums for popular authors' latest instalments, has been a spectacular success in China. Could it work here?Self-publishing: it's exploding in popularity, we all know that, with self-published autho...
Barnes and Noble To Debut $249 Nook Tablet On November 16?
3rd November, 2011Amazon's Kindle Fire turned its fair share of heads this past September, but rival Barnes and Noble wasn't just sitting around twiddling their thumbs with the Fire grabbed headlines. Barnes and Noble has already tested the tablet/reader concept with ...
Amazon, Now a Book Lender
3rd November, 2011Amazon is launching a digital-book lending library that will be available only to owners of its Kindle and Kindle Fire devices who are also subscribers to its $79-a-year Amazon Prime program.