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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.   |
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 |
InternetNews
August 28, 2009 |
Google's EPUB Embrace Challenges Kindle As Google's backing of open format for digital books lends merit to EPUB, is Amazon camped on boundary between front-runner and future failure? |
InternetNews
October 15, 2009 |
What Do Online Book Browsers Want? Online book browsing behavior studied by e-publishing tech firm highlights preferences of digital bookworms. |
InternetNews
September 30, 2009 |
Sony Moves to Woo E-Book Publishers, Authors In its latest push into the burgeoning e-reader market, Sony today unveiled a new portal for aspiring authors who want to publish titles for the electronics giant's e-book store. |
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. |
InternetNews
July 21, 2009 |
Barnes & Noble's Reply to Kindle to Debut in 2010 Will Barnes & Noble's partnership with Plastic Logic provide a viable Kindle contender? |
InternetNews
October 1, 2009 |
Simon & Schuster Unveils Video Book Service The book publishing giant today launches iPhone app and browser-based video book service. |
Information Today
August 28, 2006
Paula J. Hane |
NewsStand Introduces LibreDigital Warehouse Service for Book Publishers NewsStand, Inc. has established a new division of the company, LibreDigital, and launched a new service that allows book publishers to digitally capture and deliver selected book content online. |
InternetNews
September 8, 2009 |
Asus Angling to Bring Netbook Cred to E-books? Reports say Asus plans two new e-readers, one at a tantalizingly lower price than the Kindle. |
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. |
InternetNews
November 10, 2009 |
Will 2010 Be an Explosive Chapter for E-Readers? Interest in e-readers started to ramp up this year, but stayed tuned for what Gartner said will be e-reader mania. |
InternetNews
August 13, 2009 |
Sony Plans New Kindle Rival, Adopts Open Format Sony may unveil plans for a wireless e-reader while ditching proprietary digital book formats in a new assault on front-runner Amazon. |
InternetNews
August 5, 2009 |
Sony Chases Amazon, Debuts Two New E-Readers Sony today unveiled two new e-readers and is cutting prices of its e-books in a bid to maintain a competitive edge in the burgeoning digital book market. |
InternetNews
August 4, 2009 |
Amazon's Patents Point to Kindle E-Book Ads Ads in Kindle e-books bring with them a host of issues that will impact publishers, authors, readers, marketers and device makers. |
Information Today
August 29, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
R.R. Donnelley Acquires LibreDigital Austin, TX-based LibreDigital, founded in 1999 (as Newsstand, Inc.), is a leading provider of digital content distribution, ereading software, content conversion, data analytics, and business intelligence services to book, magazine, and newspaper publishers as well as to ereader device providers. |
InternetNews
October 19, 2009 |
Dual-Screen, Android E-Reader 'Alex' On Tap Spring Design is the latest vendor hoping to write a success story in the digital book market. |
The Motley Fool
December 3, 2009
Rex Moore |
Is an App Store Next for E-Readers? Getting a read on the next big thing in e-books. |
Information Today
August 20, 2009
Nancy Herther |
Sony Announces New Ebook Readers and EPUB Standard Support "Sony's adoption of EPUB is a smart strategy for them, because creating another proprietary format is pointless," says Michael Norris, senior analyst for trade books at Simba Information. |
InternetNews
September 29, 2009 |
Disney Debuts Subscription Digital Books The online publishing arm of the media empire is counting on subscriptions for digital book rather than on downloads and e-reader sales. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2012
Grotta & Grotta |
Self-Publishing 101 Electronic books offer a direct channel to readers |
InternetNews
September 23, 2009 |
New E-Reader Set to Rock Digital Book Market Will the new iRex e-reader be the T-Rex in the Amazon Kindle jungle? |
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
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
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. |
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? |
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." |
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. |
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 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
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. |
InternetNews
May 4, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Is Amazon Set to Super-Size the Kindle? Reports of a jumbo Kindle grow as other e-reader vendors prepare large-screen devices to help salvage the ailing newspaper industry. |
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
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. |
InternetNews
August 25, 2009 |
Sony Unveils 3G E-Book Reader, Hooks Up With Libraries Sony today renewed its assault on the Amazon Kindle, unveiling a new version of its Reader Digital Book e-reader, the Daily Edition, which sports a 3G wireless connection and a 7-inch touchscreen. |
PC Magazine
December 10, 2009
Dan Costa |
Bad JooJoo and Other Threats to Digital Publishing Whether it's on an e-book reader, tablet, or PC, publishers are finally embracing digital media, but they could still screw it up. |
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
June 1, 2010 |
Baker & Taylor and LibreDigital Offer Publishers One-Stop Digital Media Services The pair's enhanced digital services platform spans all forms of digital media-books, newspapers, and magazines-and all digital devices and applications, including the Baker & Taylor-powered Blio e-reader software, developed by K-NFB Reading Technology, and Apple's iPad. |
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
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
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
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. |
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. |
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
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
August 5, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Five Ways to Get Discounted and Free Ebooks The summer reading season is in full swing, and there are lots of options for downloading discounted ebooks. |
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
April 28, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Amazon Buys iPhone E-Reader App Maker In a bid to extend e-reader reach beyond Kindle, Amazon scoops up firm behind the most popular eBook reader application for Apple's iPhone. |
InternetNews
March 19, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Google Aids Sony in Fight Against Amazon Kindle Google opens its digital library to Sony's e-reader, but the digital book battle with Amazon is just beginning as both companies chase the sweet spot - the commercial book market. |
InternetNews
October 9, 2009
Michelle Megna |
Barnes & Noble Planning Branded e-Book Reader? The book retailer reportedly planning to take on Amazon's Kindle in time for holidays. |
