Industry News
With Amazon Publishing Stonewalled By Retailers, Tim Ferriss Taps BitTorrent To Market His New Book
16th November, 2012Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, and a stalemate between Amazon and big retailers, including Barnes & Noble, over the sale of books from the online giant's publishing imprint is giving a fillip to BitTorrent -- once a hotbed of pi...
Which Publishers Do Best at Ebook Sales?
5th November, 2012Everyone knows that Fifty Shades of Grey was a runaway hit this year, but who knows which publisher it propelled to record sales in the first-half of 2012? Everyone has heard of Penguin -- its Penguin Classics brand is thought to be among the stronge...
Alan Elsner: US Publishers Remain Fascinated by Lives of the Fading WASP Elite
5th November, 2012In modern America, the heyday of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, also known as the WASP, is some decades behind us. But in American literature, WASPs continue to fascinate -- perhaps because the publishing industry is one of their last redoubts.
Shunning Amazon, Booksellers Resist a Transformation
5th November, 2012The mammoth retailer finds that its efforts to upend the traditional publishing model have unintended consequences.
Amazon removes book reviews by fellow authors
5th November, 2012Joe Konrath and Steve Weddle report loss of 'more than 50' reviews in what may be a response to the sock-puppet scandalAmazon is understood to have deleted a wave of reviews by authors of their fellow writers' books in what is believed to be a respon...
eBook Publisher Inkling Launches Its Own Online Store: An Amazon For Illustrated Learning Content
1st November, 2012Since its launch in 2009, Inkling has been on a mission to reinvent publishing for the mobile, digital era by building engaging, interactive learning content from the ground up for the iPad. Initially focused on higher ed, this year Inkling has been ...
Amazon's Tablets Aren't Really About the Tablet Business
31st October, 2012(Third in a series on the Tablet Wars between the world's largest consumer electronics and technology companies.)When Amazon refreshed its Kindle lineup for the holiday season a few weeks back, CEO Jeff Bezos made clear what everyone has known sinc...
Penguin merger with Random House speaks volumes about book industry
26th October, 2012Concerns over Amazon's power underlie plan to create £2.6bn super-publisher – yet industry is relatively healthyFear of Amazon may not yet be a phrase in the dictionary, but it is the sentiment that underlies the proposed merger between Random Hou...
Amazon Eyeing Everyone's Lunch: Bezos Going After Apple, Netflix, Big Data, And Cloud Computing
26th October, 2012Jeff Bezos and Amazon are going for glory. They are essentially making a push into everyone's market, from Oracle and IBM to Netflix and, obviously Apple. With its Kindles, it is trying to stay cheap and beat Apple at its own game.
Self-Publishing Shows Rapid Growth
26th October, 2012New Bowker report shows self-publishing is still undergoing rapid and massive growth.