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E-Book Sales Jump 176% in Flat Trade Year
E-book sales from the 13 publishers that report figures to the Association of American Publishers soared 176.6% in 2009, to $169.5 million, the AAP reported Friday.
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Google Settlement Gets Day In Court
Before he began his remarks, Authors Guild attorney Michael Boni, being from Philadelphia, said he felt a little like local hero Rocky "being beaten about the head and face for 15 rounds."
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S&S Debuts Digital Author Widget
S&S has developed an author widget that will display information on all the books of an S&S author, and is using its recently launched business Web site, simonandschuster.biz, to distribute the software.
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B&T, Author Solutions Ink TextStream POD Deal
Print and digital wholesaler Baker & Taylor has reached an agreement with self-publishing house Author Solutions to provide print services for its authors through TextStream, B&T’s print-on-demand and short-run printing service.
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Justice Department Says It Still Has Problems with Revised Google Settlement
The Department of Justice said Thursday evening that despite progress made in limiting the scope of the original Google Book Search settlement the revised deal still raises class certification, copyright and antitrust issues. No changes, however, are expected to be made before the final fairness hearing set for February 18.
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Canadian Writers Air Google Book Search Gripes
A group of about 175 Canadian writers registered their objections to the Google Book Search settlement last week just before the Jan. 28 deadline for submissions to a New York court.
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Digital Book World: Debating E-Rights Issues
In a dynamic panel at Digital Book World about rights in the electronic age, a number of hot-button, complex issues were broached on Tuesday afternoon.
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Apple Debuts $499 iPad; Launches iBooks Store
Apple’s Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, its much-anticipated multimedia mobile computing device, to the world and there’s much to talk about.
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Vook Launches Direct Publishing Platform
Vook, the multimedia company that melds print and video, has unveiled a new platform called MortherVook that will allow publishers to independently create their multimedia versions of their books.
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Steinbeck, Guthrie Endorse Google Settlement
Gail Steinbeck, whose initial opposition led to the first delay of the Google settlement’s fairness hearing, expressed support for the revised agreement. In a letter shared with PW, Steinbeck informed her attorneys and collaborators that she and Arlo Guthrie, on his own behalf and on behalf of his father, Woody Guthrie, had now chosen “to opt-in” to the Google Book Search settlement.
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At NWU Event, Confusion, Strong Opposition to Google Settlement
Sparks flew as Authors Guild executive director Paul Aiken defended the Google Book Search sSttlement before a hostile crowd at the National Writers Union headquarters.
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FastPencil Expands into E-Books
Last week, self-publishing outfit FastPencil began offering writers the ability to publish e-books and release e-versions of individual book chapters. Previously, most FastPencil content was formatted as PDF files. But with the new format process, writers can generate content and store it in a format that will work on Kindle or any other e-reader.
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Google Claims Procedures Simplified
The Authors Guild has sent a message to its members about a simplified way authors can file a claim to ensure their works get the benefits they are entitled to under the Google Book Search settlement.
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'Alchemist' and Other Coelho Titles Available in Portuguese on Kindle
Worldwide bestselling author Paulo Coelho is making 17 of his books, including The Alchemist, available in his native Portuguese exclusively for worldwide distribution in Amazon’s Kindle store. It will be the first time any of the editions have been available as e-books, and they will be exclusive to the Kindle store for six months.
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Digital Reading Takes Over the Consumer Electronics Show
The Consumer Electronics Show opens tomorrow in Las Vegas and we can expect to see a veritable explosion of e-reading devices in every shape and format. And B&T will unveil Blio.
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Eat Your Books Indexes Cookbooks
As cookbooks come up against increasing competition from online recipe repositories, sites have sprung up attempting to reinvigorate the medium. There’s Cookstr, Cookbooker, and now, Eat Your Books, which makes cookbooks you already own more useful to you.
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Cookbooker, A 'LibraryThing' for Cookbooks, Launches
As anyone who frequents recipe sites like AllRecipes, Epicurious or FoodNetwork.com knows, user reviews are some of the most valuable content on the sites. They’ll tell you if a recipe is a flop, a star, or better with more garlic. And while Amazon can tell you the new Thomas Keller cookbook is beautiful, how's the book's recipe for Brined Pork Tenderloin? Enter Cookbooker, a sort of social networking site for cookbook users.
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Paris Court Convicts Google in Copyright Infringement Case
The AP reported this morning that a Paris court has convicted Google in a copyright infringement case over online publication of French books.
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It's a Story, It's a Cartoon, It's a... Moving Picture Book
Picture books have come a long way, baby. Forget bound sheets of paper or even digital-text e-books. The latest reincarnation of traditional kid lit is so-called "moving picture books." Animators from a company appropriately called Moving Picture Books are turning the kids and animals in famous (and not-so-famous) short stories into cartoon-like characters. The three- to five-minute narrated videos are available for digital download on computers, iPhones, iPods, and iPod Touches...
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Shortcovers Adds Internet Archive Titles
Indigo’s e-book service, Shortcovers, has added 1.8 million titles from the Internet Archive available free of charge through the Shortcovers store. Internet Archive’s library includes public domain classics, academic works, reference materials, and other fiction and nonfiction titles.
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