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Information Today 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 October 15, 2007 |
Tool Offers Publishers a Way to Enhance and Build Reader Interest Online MPS Technologies recently introduced a new tool called BookStore Discovery that is designed to let publishers make their book content discoverable and accessible to a wide audience. |
Information Today December 17, 2015 |
Ingram Acquires Direct Sales Service Ingram Content Group acquired Aer.io, a service that helps publishers, retailers, and authors sell print books and ebooks directly via their websites, blogs, and social networks. |
Information Today April 24, 2008 |
Harlequin Romances Go Digital A new digital service that uses the LibreDigital Internet Digital Warehouse solution to provide readers with new ways to access Harlequin titles digitally, including online and mobile formats. |
Information Today February 22, 2011 |
Google Introduces Google One Pass for Purchasing Digital Content With Google One Pass, publishers can maintain direct relationships with their customers and give readers access to digital content across websites and mobile apps. |
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%. |
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. |
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 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 |
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 May 30, 2013 |
Ingram Expands Publisher Services With Life Print Program Ingram Content Group, Inc. announced the launch of its Life Print program, a comprehensive solution for publishers to manage the complete life cycle of print books. |
Information Today August 12, 2010 |
LibraryThing Announces New Feature For Publishers LibraryThing, an online service to help people catalog their books easily, has announced a new feature for publishers called LibraryThing for Publishers. |
The Motley Fool December 28, 2011 Amanda Buchanan |
Who's Profiting from the News? Mobile devices have increased news consumption, but who is benefiting the most? |
InternetNews June 19, 2006 Nicholas Carlson |
Can Publishers Survive in an RSS Age? News feed aggregators are dominating how we get our information on the web. |
InternetNews February 16, 2011 |
Google's One Pass More Profitable for Online Publishers Google introduces new payment system for digital content that's less prohibitive than Apple's plan - and more profitable for publishers. |
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." |
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 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. |
InternetNews June 23, 2006 Erin Joyce |
J.B. Holston, CEO, NewsGator Publishers get some tips on the new RSS rules of the content game from the head of the syndication software provider. |
Information Today February 11, 2014 |
EBSCO Introduces eBook Religion Collection The collection includes ebook selections for its religion-focused student and scholarly customers titled eBook Religion Collection, which debuted with more than 4,100 titles from 150-plus publishers. |
Information Today September 10, 2015 |
iMoneza Introduces New Revenue Stream for Publishers iMoneza, a secure micropayment gateway for digital media, announced the availability of its cloud-based solution to help publishers develop a new revenue stream. |
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program. |
Information Today September 21, 2009 |
Google Signs Agreements With On Demand Books Google has agreed to provide On Demand Books, LLC, the maker of the Espresso Book Machine, with immediate access to more than 2 million public domain titles in the Google digital files. |
Information Today May 10, 2012 |
EBSCO Releases Ebook Subscription Collection for Business Professionals BusinessCore is designed to support the learning and research needs of business professionals. The collection is available as an annual subscription with unlimited access to the content. |
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 August 13, 2012 |
ALA Releases Report on Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries The report, which was created by the ALA Digital Content and Libraries Working Group, suggests opportunities for publishers to showcase content through public libraries. |
InternetNews August 12, 2005 Jim Wagner |
Google Suspends Copyright Copies The search engine giant makes concessions to copyright owners but some publishers still have concerns about Google's book projects. |
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 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 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 February 26, 2007 |
Convera Launches Publisher Control Panel The new service enables print and online publishers to add, manage, and refine vertical search capabilities so they can develop search-based revenues for their Web sites. |
InternetNews July 13, 2006 Nicholas Carlson |
NYTimes.com Tests My Times The New York Times confirmed it began beta testing a service called My Times this week. |
Information Today February 14, 2011 Cindy Shamel |
eBookFling Enters Scene as Ebook Lending Option Using the lending features offered through Amazon for the Kindle and Barnes & Noble for the nook, eBookFling facilitates book sharing between consumers. |
Information Today January 22, 2007 |
HarperCollins Publishers Partners with LibreDigital HarperCollins Publishers and LibreDigital, a division of NewsStand, Inc., announced a partnership to create, market, and operate digital services for publishers. |
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. |
BusinessWeek April 10, 2006 Tom Lowry |
Getting Out Of A Bind Publishers are testing multichannel delivery to offer readers more choices. |
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 June 3, 2010 |
Barnes & Noble Announces PubIt! Digital Publishing Platform The easy-to-use digital publishing and distribution platform is designed to offer qualified independent publishers and authors of self-published works expanded distribution, visibility, and protection. |
Information Today August 10, 2009 |
ALPSP and Swets Announce Launch of 2010 ALJC Collection The The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers' Learned Journals Collection can be accessed by libraries through SwetsWise Online Content or through ALJC's own web portal. |
Information Today October 6, 2004 Barbara Quint |
Google Print Expands Access to Books with Digitization Offer to All Publishers Instead of limiting the program to digitally formatted extracts and descriptive material contributed by selected publishers, the expanded Google Print program now offers to digitize any and all books contributed by any and all book publishers. |
Information Today March 3, 2008 |
Zinio Launches Global Initiatives The online publishing, distribution, and retail services company has announced two global initiatives: The launch of an online Global Newsstand and an international marketing partnership with Acceso Group. |
Searcher October 2005 Barbara Quint |
Searcher's Voice - Apology How does Google Print contribute to the distribution of book literature? |
Information Today June 17, 2013 George H. Pike |
Apple Ebook Price-Fixing Trial Underway The lawsuit, filed by the U.S. Department of Justice, alleges that Apple conspired with several publishers to set ebook pricing as a means to counter Amazon's domination of the ebook market through its online ebook service and Kindle e-reader. |
Information Today February 2001 Paula J. Hane |
E-Publishing Competition Heats Up Traditional book publishers have had a tough time lately... |
Information Today October 15, 2013 |
EBSCO Introduces 15 New Ebook Subject Sets These sets of titles from leading publishers are designed to simplify collection development by helping librarians start or enhance their ebook programs with subject-specific ebooks. |
Information Today March 5, 2009 Rita Y. Toews |
Read an E-Book Week March 8--14 Individuals interested in the environmental impact of electronic reading will find details of a life-cycle assessment of paper books versus ebooks. |
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. |
InternetNews June 13, 2007 David Needle |
Tech Publisher CMP Restructures CMP announced a major restructuring that includes shuttering some print titles and cutting about 200 jobs, an 18 percent reduction in staff. |
Information Today August 2007 Donald T. Hawkins |
O'Reilly Media Launches TOC Conference O'Reilly Media - publishers of computer technology and programming books with pictures of animals on the covers, the Hacks and Missing Manual series of books, MAKE and CRAFT magazines, and similar publications - launched a Tools of Change for Publishing conference in June. |
Information Today October 30, 2008 |
Google Reaches Settlement Agreement with Publishers and Authors The settlement would expand online access to millions of in-copyright books and other written materials in the U.S. from the collections of a number of major U.S. libraries participating in Google Book Search. |