Macmillan CEO, John Sargent, Reverses Himself and Settles with DoJ (Updated) In December, Macmillan CEO John Sargent said he wouldn’t settle with the… 8 February 2013No comments4 minute read
Amazon Receives Patent on a Store for Selling Used Digital Objects A number of sites are reporting on the imparting of this patent… 7 February 2013No comments2 minute read
LeapFrog Launches Interactive eBooks Produced by Disney Publishing LeapFrog Enterprises is releasing new interactive ebooks from Disney Publishing Worldwide, which… 6 February 2013No comments1 minute read
Firebrand Acquires eBook Architects Joshua Tallent’s eBook Architects programs ebooks for authors and publishers. If you… 5 February 2013No comments2 minute read
German eBook Retailer, eBook.de, Ends 2012 With Great Final Quarter eBook.de is a major ebook retailer in Germany. The latest report (through… 1 February 2013One comment1 minute read
EditionGuard Lets Small Business Sell DRM eBooks If you have a website and want to sell ebooks, then you… 1 February 2013No comments1 minute read
How About an eBook Vending Machine? That’s what the two machines pictured above are. The top one, which… 1 February 2013One comment1 minute read
Japan’s National Diet Library Will Offer Books Online Japan’s National Diet Library is moving into the digital age, with the… 30 January 2013No comments1 minute read
Amazon’s eBook Sales Up 70% Over 2011 Can’t say it better than Jeff Bezos in the release on Amazon’s… 29 January 2013No comments6 minute read
ProQuest and Bibliotheque National de France to Digitize Important and Rare Works via Early European Books Program Digitization of the world’s heritage increases day by day. Now, ProQuest and… 28 January 2013No comments1 minute read
Springer Book Archives Opens with 37,000 Books The Springer Book Archives has opened, digitized, and released 37,000 book in… 28 January 2013No comments2 minute read
Baen Books Coming to the iBookstore In December we reported that Baen would start selling its books through… 25 January 2013No comments1 minute read
A Zone Legally Free of US Copyright in the Caribbean? The little guy may get his licks in! The US blocked access… 25 January 2013No comments2 minute read
ProQuest Will Acquire eBook Library ProQuest is on a roll. After acquiring ebrary in 2011, it has… 23 January 2013No comments1 minute read
Kobo Appoints Former Apple Sales Director to Oversee European Expansion More Kobo news today. The company has appointed Jean-Marc Dupuis as the… 23 January 2013No comments1 minute read
University Libraries in Nova Scotia Test eBook Lending Plan A consortium of 10 academic libraries in Nova Scotia, Novanet, has negotiated… 23 January 2013No comments1 minute read
PDF Is Still Alive for eBooks One of the oldest formats, PDF, is not so common any more… 22 January 2013One comment2 minute read
Ingram Content Group Adds Random House to MyiLibrary eBook Platform Ingram will now offer Random House US titles to libraries via its… 22 January 2013No comments1 minute read
Libraries: More Important Than Ever for Discovery A workshop on libraries and ebooks was held with Skip Dye, VP,… 18 January 2013No comments1 minute read
The Evolving Author-Publisher Relationship This was a workshop with Carolyn Pittis, SVP, Publishing of HarperCollins, Nina… 18 January 2013One comment2 minute read
Digital Book World: Looking Back/Looking Forward This was a seminar with Chantal Restivo-Alessi, Chief Digital Officer, HarperCollins Publishers, Simon… 17 January 2013No comments2 minute read
Getting in the Game: Kobo’s Efforts to Help Indies Around the World Reach the eBook Marketplace Michael Tamblyn, Chief Content Officer, Kobo Inc. discussed Kobo’s role in the indie… 17 January 2013No comments2 minute read
Digital Book World: The Author’s View of the Industry The results of this survey were presented by Phil Sexton, the Publisher… 17 January 20132 comments2 minute read
