Industry News
Apple’s iBooks Textbooks: 4 Reasons to Be Skeptical
20th January, 2012I should know better than to look at a new Apple creation and call it an outright failure. The company's batting average is too high lately. There's not a lot of room for nay-saying. Still, I think a dose of skepticism doesn't hurt with Apple's lates...
Jane Chafin: More on Artists and the Future of Books: An Interview With Kirk Pedersen, Founder of Zero+ Publishing
19th January, 2012The good news is that the future of books, having lost their monopoly as conveyors of information, lies in aesthetics. There will always be a market for interesting, beautiful books -- and artists are, of course, leading the way.
Ebooks help Dixons to look on the bright side
17th January, 2012Electricals firm confident it can repay £160m bond as IT support service demand improves profit marginsThe electricals company Dixons has reported better than expected Christmas trading and said it was now confident it could repay a make-or-break £...
Publisher: Amazon Will Destroy Us
17th January, 2012When you see Snookiâs book on the New York Times Best Seller List, you know publishing is in trouble....
Coliloquy Makes Romance E-Books A Two-Way Conversation
17th January, 2012Right now, most e-books look an awful lot like their print counterparts, but startups like just-launched Coliloquy want to change that. In the past few months, other companies like Findings, Readmill, and Subtext have experimented with adding annotat...
Ian Rankin wants tax incentives to help new authors
16th January, 2012Inspector Rebus creator fears for new writing talent as publishers cut advances and internet transforms industryIan Rankin, the author of the Inspector Rebus series, is calling for tax incentives to support new writers, as cash-strapped publishers cu...
Kindle the fire to self-publishing
13th January, 2012With 1.3m e-readers bought this Christmas, the flame was lit for budding authors to go it alone. Rebecca Ratcliffe meets Kerry Wilkinson who sold his 100,000th copyAs the nation's bookworms switch to ebooks, sales of e-readers, such as the Kindle, ha...
World's Most Expensive Book to be Auctioned in New York; Estimated $7-10M
13th January, 2012Here's a book you can't purchase for your iPad or Kindle reader: a rare first edition of John James Audubon's illustrated Birds of America, which will be auctioned off next Friday (Jan. 20) at Christie's in . The four-volume set, fully adorned with 4...
Ebooks and apps innovation exciting publishers despite price concerns
13th January, 2012Companies hope quality will be key weapon against wave of 99p competition on ebook and app storesThe evolution of books into interactive, digital products is far from over, according to Henry Volans, head of digital publishing at Faber & Faber. Speak...
The writer who made millions by self-publishing online
12th January, 2012A couple of years ago, Amanda Hocking needed to raise a few hundred dollars so, in desperation, made her unpublished novel available on the Kindle. She has since sold over 1.5m books and, in the process, changed publishing foreverWhen historians come...