Industry News
E-Books Allow the Return of the Pulps
6th February, 2012I must say that The Guardian seems rather sniffy about this, the way that e-books are allowing the return of pulp fiction. E-book sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction It doesn?t sound like they approve, does it? Kindle-owning bibliophil...
New Nook Rumored for Springtime
30th January, 2012Well here's an interesting tidbit from the New York Times' latest feature on Barnes & Noble: A new Nook is in development, and should be released this spring.
Reports: Barnes & Noble Partnership With Waterstones; New Nook
30th January, 2012Two separate reports published this weekend suggest that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is close to a partnership with UK bookstore chain Waterstones and, perhaps separately, will release a new Nook this spring.
The self-epublishing bubble | Ewan Morrison
30th January, 2012In August 2011, Ewan Morrison published an article entitled Are Books Dead and Can Authors Survive?. Here, he tracks the self-epublishing euphoria of the last five months and argues that we are at the start of an epublishing bubbleThe internet is fu...
Barnes & Noble, Taking On Amazon in the Fight of Its Life
29th January, 2012Barnes & Noble, the giant that put so many independent booksellers out of business, now finds itself locked in the fight of its life, with Amazon.com lurking in the background.
The future of books, today
26th January, 2012There is much talk of bright tomorrows for publishing at New York's Digital Book World expo, but how optimistic are readers?While we've all been thinking about Andrew Miller and the Costa's new enthusiasm short stories and Rushdie's troubles in Jaipu...
BookPlace DB50: Toshiba Introduces Android-Based Color E-Book Reader
26th January, 2012Following Fujitsu, another Japanese electronics maker is ready to sell color e-book readers: Toshiba announced [JP] the so-called BookPlace DB50 today, a 7-Inch device that comes with direct access to big T's BookPlace store (which currently offers a...
Kindle Fire Had Its Chance At Christmas. Now the iPad's Unstoppable
24th January, 2012The Fire was getting a pass with people in their reviews of the device over the holidays, Rob Walch, host of Today in iOS , says???but that's done now.
'Switched' Author Amanda Hocking On Being A Self-Publishing Phenomenon
24th January, 2012If the self-publishing revolution is looking for its Che Guevara, Amanda Hocking doesnât want to be it. The quiet, slightly nervy 27-year-old has little appetite...
Rex Pickett: It's the End of the Word as We Know It
23rd January, 2012You would think with a publishing contract, a high-powered agent, a movie in the works, that I was the most grateful writer on the planet. I was... and then I wasn't.