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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.   |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2008
Dan Costa |
E-Book Readers Can Do Better The printed book is best for presenting lengthy text, so why try to reinvent a technology that has been around for thousands of years? Do something new instead. |
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. |
InternetNews
March 2, 2009
Judy Mottl |
Amazon Backtracks on Kindle Voice Feature Amazon is rethinking its stance on the text-to-speech function in its new Kindle 2 e-book reader, saying authors and publishers critical of the feature will soon be able to block it from their works. |
The Motley Fool
December 9, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Book Publishers Go Stupid Publishers introduce book-release windows to slow digital revolution. |
The Motley Fool
March 9, 2010
Alyce Lomax |
Books Are Dead. Long Live Books! New technology could keep paper books alive, despite digital disruption. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 27, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Sony's Bookish Turn After a launch delay, Sony's bid for bookworms is back on track. Sony's early start in getting the Reader to market remains commendable, but an even earlier launch would have been better. |
The Motley Fool
March 2, 2009
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Kindle Loses Its Voice Amazon backs off on its text-to-speech feature. For now. |
IEEE Spectrum
September 2012
Grotta & Grotta |
Self-Publishing 101 Electronic books offer a direct channel to readers |
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. |
BusinessWeek
December 3, 2007
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
A New Chapter for the E-book? Amazon's Kindle includes a wireless connection and eliminates the need for a computer. |
InternetNews
February 13, 2009
Judy Mottl |
Authors Want Amazon Kindle to Stop Talking Writers' advocacy group says text-to-voice feature should be disabled until copyright issue is resolved. |
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. |
Macworld
July 2000
Frith Breitzer |
Judging E-books by Their Covers Format Still Has Hurdles to Overcome |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
October 1, 2009 |
Simon & Schuster Unveils Video Book Service The book publishing giant today launches iPhone app and browser-based video book service. |
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? |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2010
Wade Roush |
The iPad May Kill the Kindle, But Amazon Could Still Come Out Ahead: The Only Comparison You Need to Read The tablet wars have heated up. |
InternetNews
November 19, 2007
Kenneth Corbin |
Amazon's Kindle a New Read on The E-Book Amazon released its snazzy new e-book reader today, but skepticism over the digital publishing industry persists. |
The Motley Fool
March 14, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Google Turns the Page The search giant comes up with a way to show book publishers the money. Meanwhile, it could get Google out of the hot seat when it comes to the controversial topic of digital copyright -- something Google investors certainly want to see. |
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... |
InternetNews
April 4, 2005
Tim Gray |
Amazon Buys On Demand Player BookSurge Company moves further into print-on-demand market. |
The Motley Fool
August 25, 2009
Anders Bylund |
Will Sony Kill the Kindle? Real books are so last century. Sony hastens the demise of printing presses and book binders. |
Information Today
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
February 2001
Paula J. Hane |
E-Publishing Competition Heats Up Traditional book publishers have had a tough time lately... |
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. |
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... |
InternetNews
November 16, 2007
Kenneth Corbin |
Amazon's e-Book Reader Set For Gala Debut Online retailer Amazon.com is expected to reveal Kindle, its new e-book reader device, at a gala event in New York City. |
Salon.com
October 20, 2000
Kera Bolonik |
The e-book wars Does a glittering $100,000 prize signal the coming of age of digital books, or a takeover bid by Microsoft and New York publishers? |
PC Magazine
February 1, 2008
Dan Costa |
Print Is Dead. Long Live Print. How publishing-on-demand will transform the publishing industry. |
PC Magazine
February 9, 2009
Dan Costa |
Amazon Kindle 2 Amazon's evolutionary Kindle 2 pushes e-books another step closer to the mainstream. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
February 11, 2009
Judy Mottl |
New Kindle's 'Read to Me' Spurs Copyright Review Amazon's new Kindle2 'read-to-me' feature that turns text to voice is under review by an author's advocacy group in relation to potential copyright issues. |
The Motley Fool
March 23, 2010
Eric Jhonsa |
To Beat Apple, Amazon Needs to Let Publishers Win The Kindle's business model needs a major overhaul. |
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
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
October 31, 2013 |
LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries. |
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. |
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
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. |
InternetNews
February 24, 2009
Judy Mottl |
Kindle's Feeling Reviewers' Love As Amazon ships the second version of its popular e-reader Kindle, the reviews flowing in so far are waxing warm and fuzzy about device enhancements - even though they are nearly silent on price. |
Popular Mechanics
February 9, 2009
Seth Porges |
How to Download Free Books onto the Amazon Kindle The Internet is filled with Web sites eager to dispense virtual versions of books that have lapsed into the public domain. |
Information Today
November 26, 2007
Paula J. Hane |
Amazon Works to Kindle Interest in Its New Digital Reader While Amazon clearly hopes that it kindles folks' interest in reading books sold by Amazon, the launch of the reader has sparked a veritable firestorm of comments and reviews that range the gamut -- from praise to lust for the new gadget, to outright dismissal. |
