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Information Today April 11, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Ovid Adds Social Policy Database... Thomson Gale Launches Economic Literature Collection... Amazon Acquires Print-on-Demand Company... |
Salon.com October 18, 2001 Elizabeth Manus |
The instant book that wasn't "09/11 8:48" -- the first book published about the terrorist attacks -- was print-on-demand. So why wasn't it available everywhere, immediately? |
The Motley Fool April 4, 2005 Alyce Lomax |
A Boost for Amazon's Book Sales? The on-line bookseller purchases a print-on-demand concern. Will Amazon enjoy a particularly robust stream of excess revenue? |
The Motley Fool December 7, 2011 John Grgurich |
What You Need to Know About Amazon's Book-Publishing Move The online giant is moving into children's books. |
Information Today March 8, 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Amazon's Squeeze on Booksellers Leads to Boycotts and Protests In January, Barnes & Noble made the decision to no longer carry Amazon-published titles in their brick-and-mortar stores "based on Amazon's continued push for exclusivity with publishers, agents and the authors they represent." |
Searcher May 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Feature: The Ebook Wars - Amazon Versus the Rest The move to electronic publication of books is creating some of the same issues and problems for publishers and distributors that the music industry -- not to mention, the information industry -- has been dealing with for years now: disintermediation. |
InternetNews November 16, 2007 Kenneth Corbin |
Amazon's e-Book Reader Set For Gala Debut Online retailer Amazon.com is expected to reveal Kindle, its new e-book reader device, at a gala event in New York City. |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2009 Katrina Chan |
3 Looming Threats to Amazon.com Who you going to call? Jeff Bezos! |
The Motley Fool March 9, 2010 Alyce Lomax |
Books Are Dead. Long Live Books! New technology could keep paper books alive, despite digital disruption. |
Information Today August 5, 2014 George H. Pike |
Latest Salvo Fired in Amazon and Hachette's Dispute Last week, Amazon launched the latest salvo in its ongoing spat with Hachette Book Group over sales of Hachette books on Amazon.com, arguing that ebooks "should be less expensive" than print books. |
The Motley Fool February 1, 2010 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon's Book Battle Amazon.com played -- and lost -- a game of chess with one of its larger publishers. |
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Booksellers Move to Pay-Per-View Random House and Amazon will let readers buy only the pages they want. |
InternetNews May 23, 2007 Nicholas Carlson |
Amazon Makes Audiobook Noise Amazon acquires audiobook publisher Brilliance Audio to complement subsidiary CustomFlix offerings. |
The Motley Fool January 20, 2010 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Takes a Bite Out of Apple Good news for publishers and e-book authors is bad news for Apple. |
HBS Working Knowledge April 5, 2010 Julia Hanna |
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing Book publishing is changing before our very eyes, even if the industry itself is fighting the transition with every comma it can muster. |
The Motley Fool December 8, 2010 Manikandan Raman |
Amazon Vs. Google: Who Will Win the E-Book War? How long will the one-ups last? |
InternetNews March 2, 2009 Judy Mottl |
Amazon Backtracks on Kindle Voice Feature Amazon is rethinking its stance on the text-to-speech function in its new Kindle 2 e-book reader, saying authors and publishers critical of the feature will soon be able to block it from their works. |
Salon.com August 8, 2000 Janelle Brown |
E-book 'em! AtRandom publisher Jonathan Karp is looking for literary revelation -- and mass readership -- from digital books. |
Information Today November 3, 2003 Barbara Quint |
'Search Inside the Book': Full-Text on Amazon Tapping into over 33 million pages from over 120,000 non-fiction and fiction titles supplied by over 190 publishers, Amazon.com has launched a major online access service to the full text of publications. |
PC Magazine May 29, 2009 Dan Costa |
It's a Great Time to Be in Publishing! There are plenty of reasons to be bullish on the publishing industry -- you just have to read between the lines. |
CIO May 15, 2004 Tracy Mayor |
Forget e-Books. Say Hello to d-Books Digitally printed books have long been stigmatized as cheap and cheesy, but steady improvements in technology have brought us to the point where it's getting harder to tell the difference between an offset four-color hardcover and a digital version of the same tome. |
Information Today May 23, 2011 |
Print Isn't Dead, Says Bowker's Annual Book Production Report Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is projecting that despite the popularity of ebooks, traditional U.S. print title output in 2010 increased 5%. |
The Motley Fool March 23, 2010 Eric Jhonsa |
To Beat Apple, Amazon Needs to Let Publishers Win The Kindle's business model needs a major overhaul. |
The Motley Fool July 26, 2010 |
Tablet Wars: Amazon vs. Apple Apple has legitimized the e-book market, which will now grow even faster. The real value is in who is going to be selling the bulk of those electronic books -- and Amazon seems to be the clear leader. |
Information Today October 2000 |
Microsoft Pushes Products and Alliances in E-Book Market Microsoft Corp. has announced that it has made the Windows version of Microsoft Reader for desktop PCs and laptop computers available as a free download. In addition, major publishers are making best-selling titles available in Microsoft Reader format... |
The Motley Fool November 8, 2005 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
When Greatness Strikes What will the new Amazon Pages and Amazon Upgrade mean for investors? A lot has to go right for an unqualified success, but Amazon is at the forefront. |
InternetNews June 15, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Flickr to Add Print to Photo Service Flickr will partner with a new company called Qoop to launch a print-on-demand service. |
InternetNews June 1, 2009 Michelle Megna |
Google Takes on Amazon's Kindle in E-Book Battle In a clash of the Internet tech titans, Google prepares to challenge Amazon in the exploding e-book market. |
Fast Company Pavithra Mohan |
EU Regulators Investigate Amazon's E-Book Practices The European Commission announced Thursday that it is looking into whether or not Amazon's policies pressured rivals into keeping their prices higher. |
Fast Company July 2009 Adam L. Penenberg |
Amazon Taps Its Inner Apple By introducing the Kindle, Jeff Bezos is emulating Steve Jobs -- and taking him on. |
The Motley Fool August 1, 2008 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Kicks It Old-School Style Amazon, the world's leading online retailer, acquires AbeBooks, an online marketplace for used, rare, and out-of-print books. |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2002 Donald T. Hawkins |
Electronic Books: Reports of Their Death Have Been Exaggerated It is now apparent that the e-book shot missed its mark, and the e-book revolution has fizzled. Indeed, it never really got off the ground. But despite all the gloom and doom surrounding them, e-books are not dead. Indeed, some e-book market segments appear to be stirring to life. |
The Motley Fool March 14, 2006 Alyce Lomax |
Google Turns the Page The search giant comes up with a way to show book publishers the money. Meanwhile, it could get Google out of the hot seat when it comes to the controversial topic of digital copyright -- something Google investors certainly want to see. |
CIO September 15, 2002 Carol Zarrow |
E-Pilogue for E-Publishing Two years ago, e-book evangelists were warning traditional book publishers that they'd better get on the e-book wagon fast, since the next two years were going to make or break them. But despite the tenacity of promoters, the future is uncertain. |
The Motley Fool July 21, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
Barnes & Noble Strikes Back The bricks-and-mortar bookstore giant takes a page from Amazon.com. |
Information Today September 24, 2012 Nancy K. Herther |
Three Publishers Settle in Apple Pricing Collusion Case "In a move that could reshape the publishing industry," The Wall Street Journal declares, "a federal judge has approved a settlement with three of the nation's largest book publishers over alleged collusion in the pricing of e-books." |
The Motley Fool November 15, 2005 Tom Taulli |
Net Giants' Book Battle Google mulls another innovation -- renting books online. Digital books could become an important additional source of online ad revenue for competitive companies. Investors, take note. |
The Motley Fool June 20, 2008 Alyce Lomax |
Making Books Interesting Again Amazon proves its influence in the book publishing world shouldn't be underestimated. |
The Motley Fool August 25, 2009 Anders Bylund |
Will Sony Kill the Kindle? Real books are so last century. Sony hastens the demise of printing presses and book binders. |
InternetNews February 13, 2009 Judy Mottl |
Authors Want Amazon Kindle to Stop Talking Writers' advocacy group says text-to-voice feature should be disabled until copyright issue is resolved. |
IEEE Spectrum September 2012 Grotta & Grotta |
Self-Publishing 101 Electronic books offer a direct channel to readers |
Information Today September 2002 Paula J. Hane |
Open eBook Forum Releases Industry Report In late July, the Open eBook Forum released a report that provides industry statistics, which the organization says show solid growth in electronic publishing and a positive significant shift in the perception of electronic book publishing. |
The Motley Fool October 26, 2009 Alyce Lomax |
The Scariest Thing About Stephen King's New Book It's not the plot -- it's the price tag. |
The Motley Fool September 2, 2011 Evan Niu |
Can Amazon Bargain Its Way Out of Paying Taxes? The company makes an offer of 7,000 full-time jobs. Will California accept? |
The Motley Fool January 30, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Where Are the Amazon Bears Now? Amazon sees 9% to 19% sales growth for the current quarter at a time when consumers are supposedly spending less than they did a year ago. |
The Motley Fool January 24, 2007 Alyce Lomax |
The Best E-Commerce Stock for 2007: Amazon.com While Amazon's expected to report lower net income for 2006 (on a 24% increase in revenues), it's certainly not some old, doddering, slow-growth company yet. |
The Motley Fool March 2, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Kindle Loses Its Voice Amazon backs off on its text-to-speech feature. For now. |
Information Today October 18, 2012 |
HarperCollins, Publishing Technology to Build Global Product Manager HarperCollins Publishers, a subsidiary of News Corp., announced that it will roll out a new global publishing system, one of the largest undertakings of its kind to be implemented by a trade publisher. |
The Motley Fool March 9, 2009 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Maybe Amazon.com Isn't Overvalued Two Piper Jaffray analysts are upgrading their rating on the company from "neutral" to "buy." |
Salon.com July 30, 2001 M.J. Rose |
E-book outcast The Web made me a successful author, but getting people to respect me as a "real writer" has been harder to come by... |