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Why Are There So Many Errors In eBooks?
24th August, 2011Books are a wonderful form of addiction. Last year my addiction increased when I became an e-book reader. Now about half of what I read...
Fad Or Future? Booktrack Adds Music, Sound Effects To E-Books; Peter Thiel Invests
24th August, 2011A new startup called Booktrack launched this morning (actually, the NYT launched it yesterday), in an effort to create a whole new genre of e-books. Booktrack creates synchronized soundtracks for e-books that aim to "dramatically boost the reader's ...
The Reference Desk: Obama's Bookshelf And Companies With Dirty Secrets
23rd August, 2011From news within the publishing industry to literary dispatches, here's your morning roundup from around the Web: All the president?s books: The Daily Beast maps the books Obama has read since his last campaign. (The Daily Beast) What happens to enda...
Report: 'Kindle Scribe' Could Be Amazon's Next E-Reader
22nd August, 2011Amazon's next Kindle might not just be for bookworms. The company has registered the "kindlescribe.com" and "kindlescribes.com" domains, leading to speculation that the next Kindle will include a stylus for note taking. Fusible discovered the domains...
Warren Adler: E-Books: Unintended Consequences
21st August, 2011The number of self-published e-books has surpassed and will continue to surpass books published through the time-honored process of editing and distribution that has been the practice of publishing companies for centuries.
It's little surprise Amazon and authors are cutting out the middleman | Ian Vince
21st August, 2011After giving away their margins, publishers have let marketing and royalties for most of their writers slideThe world of publishing has got its knickers in a twist this week with Amazon's announcement that its New York imprint has bought print and di...
B&N Vulnerable to Rivals
19th August, 2011Barnes & Noble shares plunged 17.5% after a takeover offer fell apart, leaving the bookseller without a deep-pocketed parent in its battle against Internet giants Apple and Amazon.
Apparently Ebooks Are Now Killing The Desire To Write. Sure.
19th August, 2011A couple of days ago, I took issue with those who whine that ebooks are killing publishing. In fact, I argued, “The Golden Era Of Books Isn’t Over. The Golden Era Of Books Is Now“. Apparently, though, not everyone agrees. In an intervi...
Lindsay Edmunds: Sweet Humility
18th August, 2011While self-publishing does not absolutely require humility, it has ways of forcefully suggesting that it is a very good idea.
Publisher's Claims Anger Readers, Authors
17th August, 2011The print-on-demand publishing company Publish America is under pressure following the reaction to a promise on its website, now removed, to present to JK Rowling...