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It's been a year now since my novel, Island in the Clouds, was first released for sale in eBook format. I set up IslandCatEditions and began with ePublishing to test some theories I had on the dire...
In a year that was monopolized by the “Fifty Shades” erotic novels and their various knockoffs, e-book sales in fiction rose 42 percent over the year before, to $1.8 billion. Growth in nonfiction e-book sales was smaller, a 22 ...
E-Books: Changing the Ways of Reading AOL She is not alone in holding such views; her penchant for e-books is demonstrative of a paradigm shift from print culture to a large community of readers who finds digital books more desirable owing to their...
So who's making money publishing on the web?
Fortune
FORTUNE -- The Web has given rise to a number of notable digital publishers serving almost everyone's tastes, from straightforward news to guilty pleasures.
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Sony has just unveiled their new Australian Reader Store that seeks to capitalize on a growing eBook market. The company intends on swaying people over to
The New York Public Library Discusses eBook Pilot Projects
Good E-Reader (blog)
The library system has been distributing eBooks via Overdrive since 2004 and most recently, started doing business with the 3M Cloud Library.
Months in the making, ALA' Library Technology Report (Volume 49, Issue 3) on ebook platforms for libraries is finally out. Note from author Mirela Roncevic: "Librarians, I hope you find the compara...
Via Donna Clark
Telegraph.co.uk How I overcame snobbery to self-publish an e-book Telegraph.co.uk When e-publishing was introduced, the eager early-adopters were individual writers, often those whose books, having failed to excite a literary agent, had languished...
There is an unintentionally funny post over at DBW that I want you to read. Jeremy Greenfield has compiled DBW's ebook best-seller lists for the first quarter of 2013, and much to his amazement the top 3 names on the list are ...
Libraries are becoming ebook publisher, providing them with a greater degree of control and flexibility over ownership of their titles.
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PBS MediaShift starts publishing ebooks; first topics: cord-cutting and self ...
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PBS's MediaShift is launching a line of ebooks, starting with titles on self-publishing and cord-cutting.
E-Book Sales Up 43 Percent From Last Year. ... TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics. HOME| · AROUND THE WORLD| · EREADERS| · LIBRARY| · COPYRIGHT| · PUBLISHING ...
Research Reveals E-Book Readers Read More Frequently, 7 Speed Reading ...
Newsday
As it turns out, the rise in gadgets designed or used as ebook readers has had a significant effect on peoples' reading habits.
There is resistance to digital books for kids from many teachers and parents … and in many ways, librarians are no different than others who work closely with children. But there is a growing understanding in the library community that digital content is arriving in a big way, like it or not. And libraries, of all the traditional curators in print, are truly the ideal gatekeepers of quality kids digital content. Librarians are trusted, objective, skilled in evaluating content and part of a large network of potential curators. They are also very concerned about the impact of the digital shift on readers of all ages.
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The 3M Cloud Library service may only be a few years old, but the company has developed a cohesive business in a short period of time. The company finds a ton
Baker & Taylor launches app for reading library ebooks, but still doesn't ...
Digital Comics in Libraries: Still Working on It
Good E-Reader (blog)
OverDrive, the biggest vendor of e-books for libraries, gets no love in this article. The prices are too high and the graphic-novel catalogue is too limited.
Perhaps you've also wondered why the publishing industry produces and distributes all the major climate science information available but doesn't read it. If it did, publishing could become the...
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Ebooks can 'mine' the archives of great writers: The case of Kurt Vonnegut
Digital Book World
Arthur Klebanoff is the founder and CEO of RosettaBooks, a leading independent eBook publisher.
Barnes and Noble has slashed the entry level price point for a large number of their tablet and e-Reader lineup in the United Kingdom. In addition to the
Jason Boog of Galleycat reported last week that some authors publishing shorter works with the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing program ("I could have released my book with a lot of companies, but I went with Galactus Devourer of Worlds Press.…...
Thousands of librarians are in town for the 100th annual meeting of the Texas Library Association at the Fort Worth Convention Center.
Check out this blog post by Nathan Bransford, the author of the Jacob Wonderbar series
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