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The New Market For E-Book Spam Content
23rd June, 2011With Google (NSDQ: GOOG) clamping down on content farms, the attention of those looking to get rich quickly from churning out content is now turning to major e-book retailers—and to selling stolen and replicated content. A key star...
Pottermore: If Big Authors Do Not Need Big Publishers, Then What Are Big Publishers For?
23rd June, 2011If the rumours are true (and they would seem to be) and JK Rowling has sidelined the publishing industry to put the Harry Potter series...
ArtsBeat: Rowling Releases 'Harry Potter' Into the Ether on Pottermore
23rd June, 2011J.K. Rowling, the author behind the Harry Potter series, said Thursday in London that a new Web site built around the series will also sell the e-book editions of the seven books.
In praise of … John Locke | Editorial
22nd June, 2011He has become the first author to sell a million ebooks without a publishing dealThe great John Locke proposed the tabula rasa, the blank sheet on which experience writes human characters. Outside philosophy, the empty page is an image to terrify wri...
Barnes & Noble eBooks Outsell Print Books Three to One
22nd June, 2011For those who still think that eBooks aren't going to last, you might want to talk to Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch, who told investors on a conference call yesterday that his company's digital books now outsell all formats of its print booksâ...
How One Publishing Company Is Defying Digital
22nd June, 2011PORTLAND: Mass-producing books for an ambivalent market has led to fears of the death of publication. With Kindles, tablets, and e-books thriving, what place remains...
Is It Ethical For A Literary Agent To Also Be A Publisher?
21st June, 2011There’s something new going on in the literary world these days: Some literary agencies are starting up their own publishing divisions....
What Should Publishers Do Now We've Got Self-Publishing?
21st June, 2011Technologically driven unemployment is really hardly new: we?re pretty much out of buggy whip
Barnes & Noble 4Q loss larger than expected
21st June, 2011NEW YORK (AP) — Barnes & Noble reported a larger fourth-quarter loss than analysts expected Tuesday as the bookseller continues to invest in its e-book reader Nook and as liquidation sales by rival Borders hurt its revenue.
British Library and Google bring 18th-century hippos to the web
20th June, 2011Digitisation project will make out of copyright books from 1700 to 1870 available online, including account of Prince of Orange's stuffed animal interestsAn 18th century treatise on the Prince of Orange's interest in a stuffed hippo will join one of...