Amazon Owns Goodreads… What Now? So far, the official press releases and arranged interviews about Amazon’s purchase… Mercy Pilkington29 March 2013One comment4 minute read
France Helps Out Its Bookstores, Can the US Follow? In the climate of digital-versus-print publishing and the effects that ebooks and… Mercy Pilkington28 March 20133 comments2 minute read
CourseSmart: “Connecting Content, Curriculum, and Delivery” While some sectors of the education industry are still waiting for the… Mercy Pilkington27 March 2013One comment2 minute read
eBook Review: The Sunset Western Garden Book Verdict: 5 Stars 2013 has been predicted to be the year of… Mercy Pilkington27 March 20132 comments2 minute read
Tensions Between Barnes and Noble, Simon and Schuster Hurt Authors The publishing industry is full of surprises, and the latest conflict is… Mercy Pilkington26 March 2013One comment2 minute read
Grassroots Effort by Teachers Discovery Creates Low Cost Digital Textbooks The winning combination in education is to produce high quality, creative material… Mercy Pilkington25 March 20132 comments2 minute read
eBook Review: Making It by Helen Klein Ross Verdict: 5 Stars There are some jobs you just don’t want to… Mercy Pilkington24 March 2013One comment2 minute read
What Kirtsaeng v. Wiley Means for Consumers The US Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling this week. No,… Mercy Pilkington22 March 2013No comments2 minute read
Finding the Best eBook, Print Price Point for Optimum Sales When computer how-to book publisher In Easy Steps, founded in 1991, looked… Mercy Pilkington22 March 20133 comments3 minute read
Kindle Singles Editor-in-Chief David Blum on the Popularity of eShorts Amazon launched an innovative platform in 2011 that some have heralded as… Mercy Pilkington21 March 2013One comment3 minute read
Amazon Publishing Speeds Up Royalty Payments to Authors In the I-want-it-now, fast paced environment brought about by the advent of… Mercy Pilkington19 March 20133 comments2 minute read
Bowker Report: eBook Retailers Outbuying Print Retailers According to a Bowker report first published by Digital Book World, ebook… Mercy Pilkington19 March 20132 comments2 minute read
Pottermore and Sony to Launch New Gaming Experience After the success of JK Rowling’s interactive fan site Pottermore, based on… Mercy Pilkington19 March 2013One comment1 minute read
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kno Partner on K-12 Digital Textbooks While digital textbooks abound throughout the country at the college level and… Mercy Pilkington18 March 20132 comments2 minute read
Amazon Publishing Announces Two New Imprints After the original surge of growth from the online retailer and digital… Mercy Pilkington18 March 2013One comment2 minute read
Royal Irish Academy, Adobe Release App for St. Patrick’s Day Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, the Royal Irish Academy has… Mercy Pilkington15 March 2013One comment2 minute read
Storia Adds Titles from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Scholastic, Inc.’s interactive e-reading application Storia has been a godsend for teachers… Mercy Pilkington14 March 2013One comment2 minute read
ebrary Launches International eBook Lending in Germany ebrary, a ProQuest company that specializes in providing streamlined digital content to… Mercy Pilkington14 March 2013One comment2 minute read
Top eBook Lenders Selected as OverDrive Library Leaders As more and more public and academic libraries institute ebook lending for… Mercy Pilkington13 March 20132 comments2 minute read
Random House Revamps the Unpopular Model of Its eBook-Only Imprints News circulated this week on Random House’s digital imprints Hydra, Flirt, Alibi,… Mercy Pilkington13 March 2013No comments2 minute read
Short List for the ABNA Awards Announced The Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards, which opened to the maximum 10,000 entries… Mercy Pilkington13 March 20132 comments1 minute read
EL James to Publish Journal for Aspiring Writers While critics may rightfully scoff at the writing quality of the 50… Mercy Pilkington12 March 2013One comment2 minute read
ForeWord Reviews Names Its Book of the Year Finalists As independently published authors continue to gain new ground with readers and… Mercy Pilkington12 March 20133 comments1 minute read
