The ToC Perspective: A Call for a Unified E-book Market
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. more...
Content / e-books
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.
Content / e-books
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.
Content / e-books
02/08/2012 @ 12:00AM
The Perseus Books Group has added six more literary agencies to its Argo Navis Author Services program.
Content / e-books
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.
Content / e-books
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.
Devices
02/06/2012 @ 12:00AM
The topic is "The Business of E-readers" and features Lisa Faith Phillips, director of digital strategy and development at Hachette Book Group.
Content / e-books
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.
Retailing
02/03/2012 @ 07:00PM
Thanks, in large part, to the advent of business models based on digital partnerships and fractured content—from single chapters, audiobook downloads, and video to subscriptions and bundled media—the game of managing rights and royalties has grown increasingly complex—and exciting.
Content / e-books
02/03/2012 @ 12:00AM
There is a growing crisis in the academic monograph marketplace, but organizations are rallying to devise new solutions.
Content / e-books
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.
The Roundup for Digital
Publishing news from across the Web
Classic characters from the author's books fill today's doodle.
Apple "creates a monopoly and planned obsolescence."
Apple's new authoring software gets a full review from Macworld.
Dosdoce, a Spanish analysis firm, says the best way for publishers to control their turf is to share their content, users, and traffic across a common platform.
Barbara Vey
WW Ladies offer up blurbs on the books they've been reading....
Elizabeth Bluemle
I've been champing at the bit to revisit the topic of including the nation's many children of diverse races, creeds, and colors in the literature we provide for them. For any folks who shut down at th...
Rose Fox
Queer speculative poems, summer camp for teen SF/F writers......
Adam Boretz
This week our reviews spotlight shines on the nonfiction side:the audio edition of From Pearl Harbor to Calvary: The Story of the Lead Pilot of the Pearl Harbor Attack and His Conversion to Christiani...
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