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Information Today
September 2007
Donald T. Hawkins |
O'Reilly Media: Spreading the Knowledge of Innovation With its mix of books in print and online, its enlightened attitude toward the significant DRM issues facing the industry, and its use of new technologies to enhance its products, O'Reilly is well positioned for success in the future.   |
Information Today
April 2009
Donald T. Hawkins |
Report from the Field: O'Reilly TOC 2009: Books, Reading, and Publishing O'Reilly Media held its third Tools of Change (TOC) for Publishing conference in February in New York. |
Information Today
March 11, 2010
Theresa Cramer |
O'Reilly Offers Ebook Expertise to Publishers Through Digital Distribution Services Division With the announcement of O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution Services, things may have gotten a little simpler for many publishers. |
Information Today
November 8, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Random House and Penguin Merge to Meet the Digital Imperative "The merger will create the largest consumer book publisher in the world," noted The New York Times, "with a global market share of more than 25 percent and a book list that includes contemporary best-sellers. |
Information Today
April 25, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Simon & Schuster Joins `Big 6' in Moving Ebooks Into Libraries On April 15, 2013, Simon & Schuster became the last of the "Big Six" (now actually five with the merger of Random House and Penguin) publishers to dip their toes into the waters of ebook sales to libraries. |
Information Today
March 2009
Marji McClure |
Turning a New Page in Ebooks Amazon brought renewed attention to ebooks, especially in the consumer market, with its 2007 launch of the Amazon Kindle and, most recently, the February release of the Amazon Kindle 2. |
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July 2, 2007
Karie Kirkpatrick |
Injecting Life Into the Ebook: Adobe Digital Editions 1.0 Released Adobe announced the release of its new ebook software, Adobe Digital Editions. |
Information Today
January 17, 2013
Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Trends 2013 -- The New World of Ebook Publishing Changes are coming much faster in the publishing world today -- prices for titles are dropping and we are seeing the development of new models and channels for publishing, distribution, and sales. |
Information Today
November 3, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
EPUB 3 Becomes Final IDPF Specification -- Poised to Unleash an Econtent Revolution If you think that developments in ebooks and the e-reading experience have been hitting at a fast pace, get ready for it to get really exciting. |
Information Today
June 3, 2013 |
IngramSpark Service Debuts Publish-on-Demand Platform This online publishing tool grants independent publishers easy-to-use, cost-effective access to Ingram's global distribution network for print and ebooks. |
BusinessWeek
December 30, 2009
Spencer E. Ante |
e-Books: Averting a Digital Horror Story Amazon.com's growing might and the sizzling success of the Kindle has publishers terrified. Hachette, Harlequin, and others are fighting back |
Information Today
April 12, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Tsunami -- From Antitrust to Burgeoning Sales The ebook tsunami is still in play; new issues, problems, and possibilities occur almost daily. We can do little more than watch, wonder, and improvise as the forces of innovation and commercialism work through this time of change in publishing. |
Information Today
March 8, 2010 |
Two New Ebook Surveys Highlight Interesting Trends HighWire Press, a division of the Stanford University Libraries, has released the full results of a fall 2009 survey of librarians on their attitudes and practices related to ebooks |
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." |
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. |
Information Today
September 24, 2012 |
Aptara Ebook Survey of Publishers Now Available Issued in April 2012 and sponsored by Publishers Weekly magazine and Aptara, the survey tracks the ebook publishing trends, challenges, and strategies that have emerged since 2009 when the ebook market began taking shape. |
Information Today
April 2, 2012
Paula J. Hane |
Expanding Options for Ebooks Here are some of the recently launched services that are aiming to redefine the book experience. |
Information Today
January 19, 2010
Nancy Herther |
Kurzweil's Blio: A Singular Challenge to the Ebook Industry? Designed specifically for electronic versions of books, newspapers, and magazines, the platform-independent Blio clearly sets a new standard and model for the graphical display and navigation of electronic content. |
Information Today
September 18, 2008
Corilee Christou |
Perseus Book Group Introduces Constellation Service for Independent Publishers Constellation is a one-stop service offering digital conversion technologies and new distribution channels to small, independent publishers. |
Information Today
November 2, 2009
Nancy Herther |
Internet Archive Dishes up BookServer as Digital Books Market Heats Up BookServer is intended to be easy-to-use, while respecting authors' and publishers' interests |
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%. |
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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." |
Information Today
July 1, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
Libraries Continue to Battle for Fair Access to Ebooks Academic and special libraries have found comparatively fewer problems in gaining access to ebooks for their clients than school and public libraries. |
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January 14, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
Scribd and Smashwords Working to Build New Publishing/Distribution Models for Ebooks Last month, the ebook subscription service Scribd and Smashwords, "the world's largest distributor of independent ebooks," announced a collaboration they hope will consolidate their position in the emerging independent ebook publishing/distribution marketplace. |
Information Today
December 16, 2010
Nancy Herther |
Google's eBookstore Takes Ebooks to the Next Level On Monday, Dec. 6, 2010, after months of anticipation, Google officially launched Google eBookstore (previously called Google Editions), marking an important milestone for the ebook industry. |
Information Today
January 10, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Ebook Trends 2013 -- The Transformation Accelerates In the past year, the "if" and "when" questions for ebooks were answered -- electronic media are now clearly in the mainstream and even driving changes in all aspects of publication/distribution/use of information and literature. |
Information Today
October 1, 2009 |
Sony Store to Offer Ebook Self-Publishing Tool Sony announced relationships with ebook distributors Author Solutions and Smashwords to offer a self-publishing tool for the Sony online store. |
Information Today
August 2000 |
Bookface.com Launches with Ad-Based Business Model Bookface, Inc. has announced the launch of Bookface.com, a fully functional beta Web site that is the first to use its new proprietary technology. The site delivers whole books and excerpts to readers directly over standard Web browsers. |
Information Today
August 6, 2013
Brandi Scardilli |
Five Ways to Get Your Book Published Whether you're a librarian trying to help a patron get published or planning on writing a book yourself, here is a sampling of five DIY publishers to check out. |
Information Today
August 2000 |
Publishers Participate in Launch Program for Microsoft Reader E-Books Microsoft Corp. has announced that more than 30 book publishers have participated in a production launch program for Microsoft Reader with ClearType display technology, ensuring the availability of over 800 of their books for Microsoft Reader when it launches later this summer.... |
Information Today
September 29, 2011
Dan Tonkery |
Amazon Launches Library Ebook Lending Support for Kindle and an All-New Kindle Family Support for ebook lending is a major departure for Amazon and is an important milestone for libraries. Previously, Amazon only sold ebooks and did not support ebook lending for libraries even though there has been significant demand from libraries. |
BusinessWeek
April 10, 2006
Tom Lowry |
Getting Out Of A Bind Publishers are testing multichannel delivery to offer readers more choices. |
Searcher
April 2012
Steve Coffman |
Feature: The Decline and Fall of the Library Empire The past 30 years of library history is littered with projects and plans and sometimes just dreams of ways the library might play a more pivotal role in the digital revolution that continues to transform the information landscape around us. |
Information Today
June 11, 2012
Dan Tonkery |
BEA 2012: Libraries Still Draw the Short Stick Libraries do not have much to celebrate from Book Expo other than their copyright win at the Georgia State University and even that win may be short lived as the publishers have requested an injunction to stop certain types of usage of reserve material. |
Information Today
November 30, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
Aptara eGen to Launch at Online Information in London Aptara has developed eGen, a web-based technology for converting high volumes of content into the EPUB format for distribution to multiple ebook readers. |
Information Today
March 4, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in Ebook Subscription Services Here's the scoop on five popular ebook subscription services, including a comparison chart for quick reference. |
BusinessWeek
June 11, 2009
Spencer E. Ante |
Scribd: An E-Book Upstart with Unlikely Fans Digital book site Scribd is wooing big publishers by offering greater control and more revenue than Amazon. |
Information Today
February 12, 2009 |
Publishers Join EPUB eBooks Distribution Channel Through OverDrive OverDrive, Inc., a global distributor of digital books for libraries and retailers, announced a growing list of leading publishers from around the world who are selling ebooks in the emerging EPUB format. |
Information Today
June 2, 2011 |
LibreDigital Launches Self-Service Ebook Distribution Portal The portal allows publishers with any kind of file to submit their ebooks for distribution on the Apple iBookstore and other marketplaces. |
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. |
Information Today
January 10, 2011
Theresa Cramer |
First One: Leading the Digital Revolution First One is daring to go where so many publishers have still not dared to tread. Companies like Amazon, Apple, and Google may have brought ebooks to the masses, but thus far, few publishers (if any) seem confident enough to take print completely out of the equation. |
Information Today
July 18, 2011 |
Cambridge University Press to Launch Platform for Other Academic Publishers From October 2011, University Publishing Online will provide libraries with ebooks and related database products from a variety of academic publishers worldwide. |
Searcher
December 2011
Charles Hamaker |
FEATURE: Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries While it might not matter to the occasional or recreational reader, the ebook presents a host of challenges for the role of the book as transmitter, carrier, and shaper of our written word cultural heritage. |
Information Today
February 2001
Paula J. Hane |
E-Publishing Competition Heats Up Traditional book publishers have had a tough time lately... |
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February 12, 2007 |
Macmillan Launches Ebook Sites Macmillan has launched more than 30 ebook titles from its Macmillan New Writing and Macmillan Science imprints. These are now available to search and purchase online. |
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. |
Information Today
November 29, 2012 |
Simon & Schuster and Author Solutions Launch Self-Publishing Service Simon & Schuster, Inc., and Author Solutions, Inc., announced the launch of Archway Publishing, a new self-publishing service with a focus on fiction, nonfiction, business, and children's categories. |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2008
Dan Costa |
Print Is Dead. Long Live Print. How publishing-on-demand will transform the publishing industry. |
Information Today
November 2000 |
IT Report from the Field: Electronic Book 2000 The leading topic of Electronic Book 2000, the third annual e-book conference and show, was digital rights management (DRM) and protection... |
Information Today
April 14, 2008 |
MPS Upgrades BookStore Platform for Publishers As Web 2.0 technologies revolutionize the way publishers market books to their readers, MPS Technologies announced that it has upgraded its BookStore platform for publishers. |
