02/10/2012 @ 12:00AM
Last week PW reported on digital short-form publisher Now and Then Reader, and this week the Kindle Singles charts has its first title from the company.
02/09/2012 @ 12:00AM
BISG’s Making Information Pay for Higher Ed Publishing showed that textbooks have much in common with other sectors in publishing when it comes to digital: the tools and technology are there, publishers just have to figure it out and harness it.
02/09/2012 @ 12:00AM
Penguin is terminating its contract with OverDrive, the library digital vendor, and starting February 10 will cease to offer any of its e-books or audiobooks to libraries.
02/08/2012 @ 12:00AM
The Perseus Books Group has added six more literary agencies to its Argo Navis Author Services program.
02/07/2012 @ 12:00AM
Ravenous Romance, the e-book erotic fiction publisher owned by Literary Partners Group, has made the jump to thrillers with the launch of Ravenous Shadows, with John Skipp on board as editorial director.
02/06/2012 @ 12:00AM
This month Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish Night by Elie Wiesel as an e-book, the first time the title will be available digitally.
02/03/2012 @ 07:00PM
Introducing an occasional column from the general manager, publisher and a chair of O'Reilly Media's TOC conferences
O'Reilly Media's general manager, publisher and a chair of the TOC conferences, Joe Wikert, takes on the current e-book market in his first column for PW.
02/03/2012 @ 12:00AM
There is a growing crisis in the academic monograph marketplace, but organizations are rallying to devise new solutions.
02/03/2012 @ 12:00AM
Ed McBain's novels won't be published by Thomas & Mercer until later this month, but they're already available--for free--on the Kindle for Prime subscribers.
02/02/2012 @ 12:00AM
Hyperion has signed Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick to a two-book deal, with the first title set to appear exclusively in digital.
The Roundup for Content / e-books
Publishing news from across the Web
The author/relationship guru talks to Fast Company about self-publishing and why he walked away from a "traditional" book deal.
The Guardian on Apple, Amazon, and the ongoing pricing of e-books debate.
The economics of Amazon's e-book trade.
The Wall Street Journal's bestsellers lists to include e-books, reports the AP.
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