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InternetNews
April 4, 2005
Tim Gray |
Amazon Buys On Demand Player BookSurge Company moves further into print-on-demand market.   |
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." |
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
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. |
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
April 11, 2005 |
Weekly News Digest Ovid Adds Social Policy Database... Thomson Gale Launches Economic Literature Collection... Amazon Acquires Print-on-Demand Company... |
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
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? |
Salon.com
December 3, 2002
Christopher Dreher |
Why do books cost so much? Thirty bucks for a new hardcover! How book prices got so out of hand, who's responsible and what it will take to make reading more affordable in the future. |
Information Today
July 30, 2012
George H. Pike |
Justice Department Responds to Ebook Lawsuit Objections The U.S. Department of Justice responded to public comments made objecting to the department's proposed settlement of price fixing charges levied against Apple, Inc., HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and four other publishers. |
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
July 2, 2007
Miriam A. Drake |
Ingram Digital and Microsoft Join in an Alliance Microsoft Corp. and Ingram Digital Group have signed an agreement whereby Microsoft's Live Search Books program will outsource high-volume scanning and digital management services to the Ingram Digital Group. |
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
December 3, 2009 |
Springer Collaborates With Amazon's CreateSpace for POD Springer Science+Business Media has signed an agreement with CreateSpace to make Springer's paperback book catalog, frontlist, midlist, and backlist, available via print on demand (POD) in the U.S. |
Information Today
September 8, 2011 |
Ingram Announces Global CONNECT Global CONNECT, is a new worldwide program combining Ingram's print and distribution services and a network of book manufacturers around the world, with state-of-the-art print-on-demand technology and connectivity to local networks of retailers. |
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. |
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
March 9, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Books Are Dead. Long Live Books! New technology could keep paper books alive, despite digital disruption. |
Information Today
October 6, 2008
Jill E. Grogg |
Print on Demand Goes Local Localized print on demand (POD) is ushering in the next era of book publishing and distribution. It could create a dramatically new paradigm for libraries. |
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. |
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
September 2000 |
Lightning Source, Holtzbrinck Create Global Digital Content Alliance Lightning Source, Inc. to become Holtzbrinck's primary provider of a comprehensive suite of digital fulfillment services, including printing and secure e-book delivery. |
The Motley Fool
September 16, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Amazon Sees Green in Brown Dan Brown's latest book, The Lost Symbol, is drawing cheers from the book industry. |
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
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
February 25, 2010
Barbara Quint |
19th-Century Books From The British Library on Kindle for Free Last year, Microsoft completed its digitization obligations to The British Library and handed over 25 million pages in 65,000 19th-century books. |
Information Today
July 16, 2013
George H. Pike |
Apple Ebook Dealings Violated Antitrust Law A federal court in New York has found Apple guilty of violating federal antitrust laws, stating that the company "played a central role in facilitating and executing a conspiracy" to raise ebook prices. |
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. |
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
December 22, 2008 |
New Program Helps Libraries With Digitization and Access BCR, BiblioLife, and Ingram Digital announced a new program designed to help libraries improve access to their collections through digitization. |
Information Today
March 5, 2001
Barbara Quint |
Ingram to Create New Book Catalog Database, Drop Long-Standing Connection with Bowker Ingram Customer Systems, Inc. has announced that in early April it will release a comprehensive new book-title database to booksellers and libraries... |
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. |
The Motley Fool
October 14, 2011
Alex Planes |
Amazon Gets Back to Its Roots Amazon's making inroads in the publishing industry. |
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
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
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
June 26, 2014 |
Hachette and Ingram Acquire Perseus Books Group Ingram Content Group, Hachette Book Group, and Perseus Books Group entered into an agreement that will allow Hachette to buy Perseus and sell Perseus' client services businesses to Ingram. |
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. |
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
October 18, 2010 |
Ingram to Handle All Elements of Springer's U.S. Distribution Ingram will hold Springer's entire U.S. inventory and, as it sells down, Ingram will transition titles to print on demand when it makes economic sense. All fulfillment will come through Ingram. |
BusinessWeek
April 10, 2006
Tom Lowry |
Getting Out Of A Bind Publishers are testing multichannel delivery to offer readers more choices. |
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. |
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
November 3, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Booksellers Move to Pay-Per-View Random House and Amazon will let readers buy only the pages they want. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
June 15, 2005
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
When Harry Met Bezos Amazon is cranking up the Harry Potter hype machine and traditional chains just don't stand a chance this summer. |
The Motley Fool
November 7, 2011
Alyce Lomax |
Don't Buy Amazon.com. Fear It. The e-commerce giant should be known as The Great Disruptor. |
Searcher
January 2008
Ashmore & Grogg |
The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S. |
Information Today
June 18, 2015 |
The European Commission Investigates Amazon's Ebook Distribution Contracts The European Commission initiated a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon's business practices regarding ebook distribution, according to STM Publishing News. |
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. |
