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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.   |
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. |
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... |
Salon.com
November 16, 2000
Laura Miller |
And the winner is ... The drama and the dish behind the literary prizes that shape what America reads... |
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. |
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. |
Macworld
July 2000
Frith Breitzer |
Judging E-books by Their Covers Format Still Has Hurdles to Overcome |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com
June 1, 2000
Heidi Kriz |
"Pass the virtual champagne, please" Goodbye, chips and dip: The book party comes to cyberspace. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2012
Grotta & Grotta |
Self-Publishing 101 Electronic books offer a direct channel to readers |
Salon.com
July 25, 2000
Laura Miller |
Slush, slush, sweet Stephen King doesn't realize the real-life horror he's unleashed on the public. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
December 9, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Book Publishers Go Stupid Publishers introduce book-release windows to slow digital revolution. |
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
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
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.... |
InternetNews
April 4, 2005
Tim Gray |
Amazon Buys On Demand Player BookSurge Company moves further into print-on-demand market. |
Salon.com
July 5, 2000
Janelle Brown |
The Napster library Does the San Francisco Public Library's plan to lend out e-books portend the death of the publishing industry? |
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... |
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
February 2001
Paula J. Hane |
E-Publishing Competition Heats Up Traditional book publishers have had a tough time lately... |
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
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
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. |
AskMen.com
February 18, 2015
Ian Taylor |
How To Write A Book The rise of the e-book means the traditional publishing model is increasingly outdated. If you have a story to tell, you don't need an agent or a deal with a publishing house. |
Reason
January 2002
Mike Godwin |
Napster for Novels? Not even pirates like e-books... |
Information Today
October 2000 |
OverDrive Provides E-Book Authoring Tools and Publisher Portals OverDrive, Inc. has announced the release of its ReaderWorks Standard software, which is available as a free download at OverDrive's Web portal... |
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. |
PC World
November 2002
Brad Grimes |
Read Any Good E-Books Lately? Me neither, but here are some reasons you might want to try one. |
Salon.com
December 1, 2000
Laura Miller |
Dead on the vine It's too bad that Stephen King's "The Plant" -- not the e-book experiment but the smart, witty publishing satire -- is furling its leaves... |
The Motley Fool
March 9, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Books Are Dead. Long Live Books! New technology could keep paper books alive, despite digital disruption. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 2002
Judy Shasek & Wendy Anderson Schulz |
Cyber-Bookshelf: E-Wally and the Quest A new book seeks to teach children about the rise of the Internet, bridging the gap between a generation that grew up on the printed word with one that is growing up with computers... |
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
November 2000 |
Open eBook Forum Launches Standards Initiatives The Open eBook Forum (OeBF), the international trade organization for e-publishing, has announced a framework and two initiatives to further accelerate the growth of the e-publishing marketplace... |
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
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
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. |
InternetNews
June 15, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Scribd, Simon & Schuster in Publishing Deal Simon & Schuster had signed a deal to sell Simon & Schuster eBooks in the Scribd Store. |
The Motley Fool
December 26, 2008
Anders Bylund |
This Endangered Business Model Will Survive Unlike the dinosaurs of music, book publishers actually stand a chance of surviving. |
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
January 20, 2015
Nancy K. Herther |
Ebooks in 2015: Trends and Forecasts Part 2 With all of the Big Five publishers now agreeing to ebook-lending terms with libraries, we are finally seeing stability on this point across the book industry. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Salon.com
December 4, 2000
Laura Miller |
Older and better Critic David Kipen talks about the publishing industry's youth fetish and his list of 50 great authors over 50... |
D-Lib
July 2001
Lucia Snowhill |
E-books and Their Future in Academic Libraries: An Overview This article briefly summarizes task force findings, and outlines issues and recommendations for making e-books viable over the long term in the academic environment, based on the long-term goals of building strong research collections and providing high level services to its users... |
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. |
