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Top Literary Prizes Unfavorable to Asian Authors

Nury Vittachi, chairman of the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Association said…

How Will People Read Books 20 Years from Now?

In the last ten years we have seen a dramatic shift from…

OverDrive Acquired by Rakuten, Owners of Kobo

OverDrive is the world’s leading digital content provider of books, movies, music,…

Barnes and Noble Remains Committed to Nook

Barnes and Noble remains steadfast in their commitment to selling e-readers and…

For FanFic Authors, One Direction Reigns Supreme

I’m not sure I’ll make it out alive if I admit that…

New Amazon Kindle e-Readers Cannot be Jailbroken

Amazon has pulled out all the stops in a recent firmware update…

Hachette is Betting on LEGO as the Next Big Thing

Little, Brown Books is a division of Hachette and the publishing companies…

Novels have Been Declared Dead 30 Times by Prominent People

The novel has been declared dead over 30 times since 1902 by…

New Platform Senserial Delivers Serialized eBooks

One of the more popular ways that readers are consuming digital content…

The Worst e-Book Cover Art – March 2015

Self-published authors normally forgo the expense of hiring a professional graphics designer…

Self Publishing Erotica: If You Write It, There’s an Audience for It

First it was Big Foot. Then the Loch Ness Monster. Dinosaur CEOs…

Bestselling Author Paulo Coelho Embraces Book Piracy

The bestselling author of the Alchemist, Paulo Coelho does not have a…

Amazon Pulls the Look Inside Function from Becoming Steve Jobs Amid Speculation

We just can’t get enough of the guy behind the iPad, as…

Censoring Indie Authors

With so much attention focused on the US when it comes to…

Audible Wants Authors to Exclusivly Focus on Audiobooks

Audible is the largest company involved in the consumer audiobook sector and…

Audiobooks and e-books Experience Growth in 2014

The Association of American Publishers released their final report on the growth of…

Episodic Fiction is Finding a New Home on Kindle Unlimited

Indie authors are disrupting e-book publishing by writing episodic fiction. They are…

PEN/Faulkner Award Finalists Announced

If you are looking for a new book to read perhaps the…

The World’s Most Translated Books

Every year thousands of new books are published and not all of…

The End for Tech Blog GigaOm

It appears to be the end for one of the industry’s top…

Kindle Writeon Moving Out of Beta

Kindle Writeon is a social community where authors post the books they…

Indie Authors Triumphing over Sexism in the Publishing Industry

Writer/creator Joss Whedon has an epic quote about sexism in the entertainment…

Publisher Revenue Plummets as the Novelty of eBooks Wane

Major publishers are starting to see lower than expected quarterly results because…