What Publishers Can Learn from President Obama’s 2012 Campaign

  At the Digital Book World Conference in New York, Teddy Goff,…

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…

Publishing Industry Forecast: Results of the 2012 Publishing Executive Survey

At the Digital Book World conference in New York, James McQuivey, Vice…

Digital Book World – An Industry in Transition

  Mike Shatzkin: CEO, Idea Logical Company spoke about the publishing industry…

Digital Book World: It’s About to Start

Digital Book World is one of the leading conferences, where the entire…

Audiobooks.com Switches to Audible’s Pay Model

We often forget that audiobooks are part of the ebook hierarchy. Amazon’s…

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…

New eBook: The Web, a Multilingual Encyclopedia by Marie Lebert

Paris-based Marie Lebert has just published this new encyclopedia on Project Gutenberg.…

Bluewater Introduces Digital Variant Covers for Honey Boo Boo Comic

Variant covers are a long-established tradition in print comics: Basically, publishers print…

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…

The Downloads Have It: Viz, Digital, Let You Keep Your Digital Comics

In the beginning, when people talked about digital comics, there were the…

New App for the Kindle Looks Really Neat – Utility Kit

Normally I don’t cover apps, but apps for the E-Ink Kindles seem…

Indie Sales up 8% in 2012; eBook Sales Growing As Well

The American Booksellers Association President, Orien Teicher, sent his annual letter to…

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…

Smashwords/Douglas County Deal Required a Lot of Work

Previously we reported on Douglas County acquiring 10,000 self-published ebooks from Smashwords.…

Beat the Four-Dollar Blues: Digital Comics Bargains and Freebies

If you feel, as I do, that $3.99 is a ridiculous price…

Digital Book World Is Getting Nearer; What We Are Covering

Next week Digital Book World will take place in New York City. Mercy…

Whitman Manuscript Now Digitized

According to the University of Chicago Library News, the original manuscript of…

Doctor Who Short Stories Come to eBooks in the UK

Being a rabid Doctor Who fan, I just had to cover this…

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…