Krakauer's Attention-Getting eBook Now In Print
Most major publishers continue to say that as a matter of policy they will not buy books for print-only publication, but as a practical matter, licensing paperback rights to a successful ebook remains...
View ArticleMondadori to Put Thousands of eBooks on Kindle
Italy's Mondadori will make "more than 2,000 ebooks" available via Kindle stores in the UK, Germany and the US. They expect to add another 1,000 titles before the end of the year, and hope to have 80...
View ArticleConstellation Pairs With Faber Factory In UK Joint Venture
The UK's Faber and Faber has joined with the Perseus Books Group's Constellation to form a UK joint venture focused on digital distribution for independent publishers. The new entity combines Faber's...
View ArticleAt PLC Frankfurt, Mondadori to Launch Translated eBooks In US, and More World...
Some information and highlights from this morning's Publishers Launch Conference, eBooks Go Global, in Frankfurt. One of the premises of today's conference was an expectation the ebooks will lead to...
View ArticleAnother Frontier for Kindle: Japan
Amazon is moving quickly on their expansion of the Kindle platform into multiple languages. Both the Nikkei business daily and Jiji press in Japan report that the company is close to launching a...
View ArticleeNews: Indiebound Reader App Launches; eBooks in Europe; and More
Indiebound has launched its ebook reading app, Indiebound Reader, in conjunction with Bluefire, as announced in August (and originally set for release in October). So far the app is only available for...
View ArticleGabriel Garcia Marquez eBooks Available Through Co-Venture Between Leer-e and...
On the eve of his 85th birthday Tuesday, Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez's international bestseller 100 YEARS OF SOLITUDE is now available in ebook format in multiple Spanish-speaking countries...
View ArticleLittle Brown UK At Odds with Authors Over Tor's DRM-Free eBooks
The industry debate over whether or not to remove DRM from ebooks has moved from philosophical and strategic differences of opinion to a potential contract (and territorial) dispute that threatens to...
View ArticleProposed UK Copyright Changes Would Allow Personal, Private Copying of eBooks
The latest step in a process that has been underway for a while, the UK's Intellectual Property Office published their proposals for changes to the country's copyright law to provide "greater freedom...
View ArticleKobo Launches Bigger High-Res eReader; Scores Hosseini Exclusive in Brazil
Kobo still believes in eInk dedicated readers, reinforced in today's announcement from the London Book Fair: Later this month they will release an oversized eInk reader with a 6.8-inch display (most...
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