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Information Today
September 2007
Donald T. Hawkins |
O'Reilly Media: Spreading the Knowledge of Innovation With its mix of books in print and online, its enlightened attitude toward the significant DRM issues facing the industry, and its use of new technologies to enhance its products, O'Reilly is well positioned for success 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
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
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
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. |
BusinessWeek
December 30, 2009
Spencer E. Ante |
e-Books: Averting a Digital Horror Story Amazon.com's growing might and the sizzling success of the Kindle has publishers terrified. Hachette, Harlequin, and others are fighting back |
Information Today
March 11, 2010
Theresa Cramer |
O'Reilly Offers Ebook Expertise to Publishers Through Digital Distribution Services Division With the announcement of O'Reilly Media's Digital Distribution Services, things may have gotten a little simpler for many publishers. |
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
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
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 |
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
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 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
May 21, 2012 |
Unglue.it Officially Launches With Five Ebook Campaigns Unglue.it is a crowdfunding site that lets book lovers pay authors and publishers to make their already-published books free to the world under a Creative Commons license. |
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 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
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
June 2, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Sources for Free Ebooks and Ereader Software The majority of the free ebooks available are older, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books. Some sites, such as Amazon, offer newer free ebooks on limited time promotional offers. Barnes & Noble offers a limited number of Free Nook Books. The Sony Reader Store also offers some free ebooks. |
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. |
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
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. |
Searcher
December 2011
Charles Hamaker |
FEATURE: Ebooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries While it might not matter to the occasional or recreational reader, the ebook presents a host of challenges for the role of the book as transmitter, carrier, and shaper of our written word cultural heritage. |
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 2, 2012
Paula J. Hane |
Expanding Options for Ebooks Here are some of the recently launched services that are aiming to redefine the book experience. |
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. |
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. |
Information Today
November 9, 2009
Nancy Davis Kho |
LibreDigital Provides AllAccess to Content LibreDigital is one player in the e-reader market trying to offer maximum format flexibility to readers. |
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
July 16, 2012
Barbara Quint |
Project Gutenberg Launches Repository for Self-Published Works The generous souls at Project Gutenberg opened a new venue supplementing their traditional collection of public domain classics. |
Information Today
March 4, 2014
Brandi Scardilli |
Who's Who in Ebook Subscription Services Here's the scoop on five popular ebook subscription services, including a comparison chart for quick reference. |
Information Today
January 26, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Apple Announces Efforts to `Reinvent' Textbooks In an effort to "reinvent" textbooks, Apple unveiled a suite of tools and resources geared to the K-12 education market on Jan. 19 at New York's Guggenheim Museum. |
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
October 17, 2011
Nancy K. Herther |
Kansas Leading the Fight for Fair Ebook Access in Libraries The Kansas case brings up a variety of important issues and problems with ebooks today: The issues of platform, buyers rights, and the very structure of the ebook industry. |
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 13, 2015
Nancy K. Herther |
Ebooks in 2015: Trends and Forecasts Part 1 Clearly, e-reading is becoming a staple in libraries across North America. |
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. |
BusinessWeek
February 27, 2006
Burt Helm |
Digital Books Start A New Chapter Lighter devices, better displays, and the iPod craze could make digital books best-sellers. |
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
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
November 3, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
EPUB 3 Becomes Final IDPF Specification -- Poised to Unleash an Econtent Revolution If you think that developments in ebooks and the e-reading experience have been hitting at a fast pace, get ready for it to get really exciting. |
Information Today
May 10, 2012
Nancy K. Herther |
Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Form `Newco' -- A New Chapter for Ebooks On April 30, 2012, Microsoft and Barnes & Noble announced the end of their ongoing litigation and a joint partnership to further develop the NOOK and ebooks lines. |
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
April 28, 2011
Theresa Cramer |
Kindle Library Lending Announcement Raises Questions Kindle-using library patrons will now be able to get ebooks in their preferred format, and that's about the whole of it. |
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
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
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. |
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
November 1, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
HTML5-Powered E-Readers for the Browser A new HTML5 reader, powered by SkyShelf from LibreDigital, allows customers to read books in the browser on their laptops, tablets and many smartphones. |
Information Today
April 14, 2008 |
MPS Upgrades BookStore Platform for Publishers As Web 2.0 technologies revolutionize the way publishers market books to their readers, MPS Technologies announced that it has upgraded its BookStore platform for publishers. |
Information Today
September 17, 2013
Barbara Brynko |
What's Trending in Ebooks The good news is that ebooks are holding their own and still commanding a sizable portion of the publishing pie. Consumer demand for ebooks is being heard in all market segments, including the library space. |
