No News Is Still News for Amazon, Hachette Dispute A headline in the Wall Street Journal today promised that a senior… Mercy Pilkington2 July 2014One comment2 minute read
Washington Post: What Would Bezos Do? It’s no secret that newspapers as a whole are on the decline.… Mercy Pilkington1 July 2014One comment2 minute read
US Publishers Earn More through Online Sales than Physical Stores In a report from two entities that watch the publishing industry in… Mercy Pilkington30 June 2014One comment2 minute read
Fan Fiction Romance Comes to Kindle Worlds Amazon launched its Kindle Worlds fan fiction platform just over a year… Mercy Pilkington27 June 2014One comment2 minute read
Allegations that Amazon Seeks New Publishers Terms in UK It’s an understood truth in publishing that anyone who works for the… Mercy Pilkington25 June 2014One comment2 minute read
CNBC Produces 1 Hour Show about Amazon Amazon is a global e-commerce giant that capitalized on selling physical books… Michael Kozlowski24 June 2014No comments2 minute read
Prime Music Adds Real Value to Amazon Prime Subscription Amazon Prime is a full-featured subscription service to begin with –though the… 23 June 2014One comment2 minute read
Should Amazon Play Nice with Hachette, Publishers? An article appeared this past week in the New York Times that… Mercy Pilkington22 June 2014No comments2 minute read
Pay by the Month for Amazon Fire TV Amazon has been running an installment program for the last six months… Michael Kozlowski11 June 2014No comments1 minute read
How The Washington Post Can Bring Down Its Owner’s Company We’ve been hearing the question for some time now: What do we… Mercy Pilkington11 June 20144 comments2 minute read
Hachette to Cut 3% of US Staff Hachette Book Group, who is currently engaged in a tumultuous battle with… Mercy Pilkington9 June 2014One comment2 minute read
Amazon Offering Fire TV & Kindle Fire HDX Tablet Bundle Everybody likes to get a good deal, which is why the bundle… 2 June 2014No comments1 minute read
Apple Request to Delay Damages Trial Rejected by Appeals Court In the ongoing legal battles involving Apple over antitrust violations in an… Mercy Pilkington31 May 20142 comments2 minute read
Hachette Launches Store Within a Store Concept at Booksamillion Booksamillion is one of the last bookstore chains to be operating in… Michael Kozlowski30 May 2014One comment1 minute read
Kindle Cloud Reader Goes Global When we first saw the Kindle Cloud Reader, it was clear that… 30 May 2014One comment1 minute read
Amazon Publically States their Position on Hachette eBook Dispute – and Hachette Responds Amazon has posted a public message on their own forums about their… Michael Kozlowski28 May 2014One comment4 minute read
Coker: Publishers Are Disposable to Amazon Smashwords‘ CEO and founder Mark Coker has written an in-depth look at… Mercy Pilkington27 May 20143 comments2 minute read
Amazon, Hachette Battle Continues as Pre-Order Buttons Are Removed First publishers hate Amazon, then they want legal action to require them… Mercy Pilkington24 May 2014One comment2 minute read
Amazon Fire TV Available for Free The Amazon Fire TV box received a tremendous amount of hype when… Michael Kozlowski23 May 2014One comment1 minute read
Is Flipkart Poised to Become the New Amazon? People who’ve made a study of the rise of Amazon’s retail empire… Mercy Pilkington22 May 20144 comments2 minute read
Amazon’s One-Sitting Short Reads Meets Need for Fast Fiction A number of platforms have offered great content in a short essay,… Mercy Pilkington21 May 2014One comment2 minute read
Amazon Compiles Bestsellers, Most Well-Read Cities Lists As big data works its way into the publishing industry mindset, information… Mercy Pilkington21 May 2014One comment2 minute read
UK Rules eBooks Aren’t Books as Far as Taxation Is Concerned There’s no relief in sight for UK readers, as Parliament declared that… Mercy Pilkington19 May 20144 comments2 minute read