Paramount Sues Puzo Estate Over ‘Godfather’ Sequels
The studio behind the famous Godfather trilogy is asking a court to make the franchise’s literary heirs an offer they can’t refuse. Read more at paidContent »
Barnes & Noble Misses Estimates, Though In-Store Sales Rise Slightly
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Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) hopes to advance a narrative of momentum and the power of bricks-and-mortar bookstores in its third-quarter earni… Read more at paidContent »
Boo! Ghostwriting Grows In Age Of ‘Book As Badge’
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The craft of ghostwriting is a dark art of sorts, replete with secrecy and scandal. But lately, it’s also becoming a booming business. Read more at paidContent »
B&N Comes Down To Kindle Fire’s Level With 8 GB, $199 Nook Tablet
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Hoping to compete against the $199 Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) has a new $199 tablet, the not-so-catchily-named Nook Tablet–8 G… Read more at paidContent »
Open Road Responds To HarperCollins E-Book Lawsuit
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Open Road Media responded today to the lawsuit that HarperCollins filed against it in December over the digital rights to Jean Craighead Geo… Read more at paidContent »
Book Discovery: How Many ‘Touchpoints’ To Purchase?
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Social reading site Goodreads says the primary way its users discover new books to read is through search. Read more at paidContent »
Indie Bookseller On E-Books: ‘I Don’t Think We’ll Ever Make Money On Them’
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Independent bookstore are unlikely to ever make money from e-books, in the opinion of Praveen Madar of San Francisco independent bookstore K… Read more at paidContent »
Updated: Book Publishers Force Down Piracy Sites
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Update: Andi Sporkin of the Association of American Publishers contacted me shortly after this story was published. She says the publishers… Read more at paidContent »
Free Interactive E-Book Publishing Platform — From Inkling, Not Apple
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Startup iPad publisher Inkling is launching a free, cloud-based, interactive e-book publishing platform, Inkling Habitat. That may sounds a… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Kindle To Japan And Brazil This Year?
Kindle may launch in Japan and Brazil in 2012, according to reports published in the last week. Read more at paidContent »
Amazon’s Kindle Plays A Part In Penguin’s Library Decision
Since Penguin announced yesterday that it is ending its partnership with OverDrive and will no longer provide e-books or digital audiobooks… Read more at paidContent »
Digital Downloads Jumped 26% In 2011, Led By E-Books
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Users are downloading more e-books, music, TV shows and movies than ever: Digital content and subscriptions were the fastest-growing retail… Read more at paidContent »
Indie Booksellers All Yanking Amazon Titles? Not Exactly
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It would be dramatic to say that independent booksellers nationwide are boycotting Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing titles en masse — and hey… Read more at paidContent »
Google Books Lawsuit Lurches Forward
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The fate of Google’s massive book scanning project has been up in the air since a legal settlement collapsed last year. New court filings th… Read more at paidContent »
Beloved Librarian Who Signed With Amazon: ‘The Vehemence Surprised Me’
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Nancy Pearl, the famous librarian (and action figure!) who recently partnered with Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) to republish a handful of out-of-prin… Read more at paidContent »
Another Tech Blogger Launches An E-Book Venture
Does three make a trend? In recent months, both former Gawker editor Emily Gould and GigaOm’s Michael Wolf launched their own e-book venture… Read more at paidContent »
Uneven E-book Growth Sees Lagardere Book Sales Slim
Global holiday-quarter books revenue dipped by 3.8 percent at Hachette operator Lagardere Publishing despite booming western e-book sales, t… Read more at paidContent »
An Amazon Store In Seattle?
A new report suggests that Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is opening a small, Kindle-focused retail store in Seattle to test whether the concept could… Read more at paidContent »
Kindle Touch Now Shipping Abroad–But Not To UK/Germany/Spain/France/Italy
The Kindle Touch WiFi is now available in some additional countries, but not the biggest international e-reading markets that already have t… Read more at paidContent »
Another Chain Says It Won’t Carry Amazon Books, But Does It Matter?
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Canadian bookselling chain Indigo Books & Music is joining Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) and Books-A-Million in their refusal to carry any Amaz… Read more at paidContent »
Ebook Sales Are Being Driven By Downmarket Genre Fiction
Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that plastic case, other th… Read more at paidContent »
Apple Clarifies: We Don’t Own The Content You Put Into iBooks Author
When Apple first released its free iBooks Author software, some were upset about its end-user licensing agreement, which states that works c… Read more at paidContent »
Books-A-Million Won’t Carry Amazon Titles, Either
Books-A-Million — the nation’s second largest bookstore chain after Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) — announced today that, like B&N, it will n… Read more at paidContent »
Random House Will Keep All Its E-Books In Libraries, With A Price Increase
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Random House is now the only big six publisher to allow unrestricted access to all of its e-books in libraries — and it said yesterday it w… Read more at paidContent »
New Stats: E-Book Growth Slows As Children’s Hardcover Jumps
The newest statistics from the Association of American Publishers show that e-book growth slowed somewhat in November, though it’s still hig… Read more at paidContent »
Why Some Book Buyers Are Increasingly Resistant To E-Readers
Book marketing firm Verso Advertising recently found that over half of book buyers say they are “not at all likely” to purchase an e-reader… Read more at paidContent »
Barnes & Noble: We Will Not Carry Amazon Publishing Titles In Our Stores
About half an hour before Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) announced Q4 earnings this afternoon, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) released a new statement sayi… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon Misses Estimates: Q4 Earnings Down 58 Percent
Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) disappointed investors by reporting Q4 2011 revenues of $17.4 billion this afternoon, up 35 percent from a year ago but… Read more at paidContent »
Study: As E-Readers Increase, So Does Resistance
E-reader usage is growing beyond a group of early adopters, but new stats suggest that consumers are also increasingly resistant to buying a… Read more at paidContent »
A Crowdfunded Approach To Setting E-Books Free
What do To Kill A Mockingbird, A Wrinkle in Time and Little House on the Prairie series have in common, besides being beloved? None of them… Read more at paidContent »
ProPublica Partners With Open Road On E-Books
Digital publisher and multimedia company Open Road is partnering with investigative journalism nonprofit ProPublica on multiple e-books. Read more at paidContent »
Reports: Barnes & Noble Partnership With Waterstones; New Nook
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Two separate reports published this weekend suggest that Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is close to a partnership with UK bookstore chain Waters… Read more at paidContent »
Ad Agency Sues Herman Cain Over Book Cover Photo
A new lawsuit claims a former Republican presidential candidate used a photo without permission for the cover of his biography, This is Herm… Read more at paidContent »
As Goodreads Ends Sourcing From Amazon, Users Fear Lost Books
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Book-centered social networking site Goodreads, which allows users to keep records of the books they read and share the information with oth… Read more at paidContent »
Can A Streaming Audiobooks Service Work?
Audiobooks.com, a cloud-based streaming audio service for iOS and Android, launches this week as a would-be competitor to the Amazon (NSDQ:… Read more at paidContent »
The Best Quotes From Businessweek’s Amazon Piece
Bloomberg Businessweek’s January 30 cover story, “Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Wants to Burn the Book Business,” includes rare interviews with Larry… Read more at paidContent »
Amazon: Early Data Shows Kindle Owners’ Lending Library Increases Sales
Amazon’s early data from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, which allows Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) prime members who are also Kindle owners to bo… Read more at paidContent »
iBooks 2 Is ‘A Huge Missed Opportunity’, Publisher’s Developer Says
Apple’s new big play for the education textbook market is a big letdown, according to a developer for one of the leading interactive kids’ e… Read more at paidContent »
Well, Here’s How Amazon Publishing Will Get Its Books Into Barnes & Noble
Booksellers should not expect to be visited by a friendly Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Publishing sales rep anytime soon. Rather, in an agreement ann… Read more at paidContent »
E-Singles: ‘Journalism’s Extraordinary Challenges In An Entirely New Place’
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Byliner recently announced that it has sold 100,000 original e-singles, and other publishers are finding similar success with the format: Th… Read more at paidContent »
