Competing With Free: How Piracy Impacts Sales and Strategies to Fight It Michael D. Smith, Professor of Information Technology and Marketing, Carnegie Mellon University,… 16 January 2013One comment2 minute read
What Publishers Can Learn from President Obama’s 2012 Campaign At the Digital Book World Conference in New York, Teddy Goff,… 16 January 2013No comments2 minute read
Digital Book World: A CEO’s View of the Future Redux: Lessons Learned, Future Forecasts [Transcription] David Nussbaum, Chairman & CEO, F+W Media, Inc.,Moderator: 2012 was the… 16 January 2013One comment4 minute read
Publishing Industry Forecast: Results of the 2012 Publishing Executive Survey At the Digital Book World conference in New York, James McQuivey, Vice… 16 January 2013No comments2 minute read
Digital Book World – An Industry in Transition Mike Shatzkin: CEO, Idea Logical Company spoke about the publishing industry… 16 January 2013No comments2 minute read
Digital Book World: It’s About to Start Digital Book World is one of the leading conferences, where the entire… 15 January 2013No comments1 minute read
Audiobooks.com Switches to Audible’s Pay Model We often forget that audiobooks are part of the ebook hierarchy. Amazon’s… 15 January 2013No comments1 minute read
The Number Of Kids Reading eBooks Has Nearly Doubled Since 2010 and Kids Who Read eBooks Are Reading More… Especially Boys That’s the title of a press release from children’s publisher Scholastic and… 14 January 20132 comments2 minute read
New eBook: The Web, a Multilingual Encyclopedia by Marie Lebert Paris-based Marie Lebert has just published this new encyclopedia on Project Gutenberg.… 14 January 2013No comments1 minute read
Bluewater Introduces Digital Variant Covers for Honey Boo Boo Comic Variant covers are a long-established tradition in print comics: Basically, publishers print… 13 January 2013One comment4 minute read
Inserting Ads in eBooks: New Concept or an Existing Idea Being Adopted by the Market? The recent ruling in the United States, where a jury awarded Apple… 12 January 20132 comments4 minute read
The Downloads Have It: Viz, Digital, Let You Keep Your Digital Comics In the beginning, when people talked about digital comics, there were the… 12 January 20132 comments3 minute read
New App for the Kindle Looks Really Neat – Utility Kit Normally I don’t cover apps, but apps for the E-Ink Kindles seem… 11 January 2013No comments1 minute read
Indie Sales up 8% in 2012; eBook Sales Growing As Well The American Booksellers Association President, Orien Teicher, sent his annual letter to… 11 January 2013No comments1 minute read
Editorial: Last Wheel of Time eBook Will Have a Delayed Release; Will Probably Increase Piracy In an incredibly stupid decision, the late Robert Jordan’s wife has caused… 9 January 201310 comments2 minute read
Smashwords/Douglas County Deal Required a Lot of Work Previously we reported on Douglas County acquiring 10,000 self-published ebooks from Smashwords.… 9 January 2013No comments2 minute read
Beat the Four-Dollar Blues: Digital Comics Bargains and Freebies If you feel, as I do, that $3.99 is a ridiculous price… 8 January 2013One comment3 minute read
Digital Book World Is Getting Nearer; What We Are Covering Next week Digital Book World will take place in New York City. Mercy… 8 January 2013No comments1 minute read
Whitman Manuscript Now Digitized According to the University of Chicago Library News, the original manuscript of… 8 January 2013One comment1 minute read
Doctor Who Short Stories Come to eBooks in the UK Being a rabid Doctor Who fan, I just had to cover this… 7 January 2013No comments1 minute read
txtr and ReaderLink Digital Team Up in US to Sell eBooks at Retail Outlets The German company txtr GmbH and Readerlink Digital have signed an agreement… 7 January 2013One comment1 minute read
Digital Archives: Epistles of St. Paul Papyrus Now on iPad The University of Michigan’s most famous papyrus is now available to users… 7 January 2013No comments1 minute read
Flexible Paper Tablet from Plastic Logic and Intel Canada’s Queen’s University, Intel, and Plastic Logic have created a flexible paper-like… 7 January 2013One comment4 minute read
