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The Works Of J.D. Salinger To Be Released In Digital Format

The Works Of J.D. Salinger To Be Released In Digital Format

The works of author J.D. Salinger will finally be available on Tuesday in electronic format. The Hollywood Reporter announced that Salinger’s longtime publisher, Little, Brown and Company, recently agreed to release the American author’s works as e-books. The Catcher and the Rye, Nine Stories, Franny And Zooey, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour, […]

4y ago

Stephen King Says E-Books Will Never Fully Replace Regular Books

Stephen King Says E-Books Will Never Fully Replace Regular Books

Bestselling author Stephen King was once a big proponent of e-books. In fact, he was one of the first mainstream authors to offer a story digitally to his readers. However, Stephen King recently sat down with Huffington Post Live to say that he doesn’t think that regular, physical books are going anywhere. King said that […]

9y ago

Amazon Asks Authors For Help Against Publisher’s ‘Illegal Collusion’ Regarding E-Book Prices

Amazon Asks Authors For Help Against Publisher’s ‘Illegal Collusion’ Regarding E-Book Prices

In an email sent out overnight to authors who use Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing service, Amazon asked writers to reach out to publishing giant Hachette and speak up about the publisher’s “illegal collusion” regarding high e-book prices. Amazon started out the letter by regaling authors with the history of what happened when paperback books became […]

9y ago

Kindle Unlimited The Latest Entry In The “Netflix For Books” Business, How Does It Compare?

Kindle Unlimited The Latest Entry In The “Netflix For Books” Business, How Does It Compare?

After nearly seven years of being the market share leader in the e-reading world, Amazon has finally thrown its hat in the ring in the “Netflix for books” business, which already faces stiff competition from the likes of Oyster and Scribd. Amazon’s latest book service is called Kindle Unlimited, and it launched yesterday amid fanfare, […]

9y ago

Walmart Cashes In On Amazon’s Feud With French Publisher Hachette

Walmart Cashes In On Amazon’s Feud With French Publisher Hachette

Profit sharing negotiations have broke down between Amazon and publisher Hachette, leaving competitors like Walmart, Target, and Barnes and Noble an opportunity to cash in on the disagreement. Neither Amazon nor Hachette are giving specifics on the impasse due to a legal agreement concerning the negotiations. The disagreement has spurred Amazon to some heavy-handed tactics. […]

10y ago

Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Topping E-Book Charts

Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ Topping E-Book Charts

Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler’s memoirs, appears to be doing well on e-book charts in recent times. Oddly, the fascist tell-all continues to successfully compete against both classics and recent releases. Sure, Mein Kampf doesn’t often manage to reach the number one spot, but its staying power is remarkable. Two digital versions of Hitler’s book are, […]

10y ago

Patent Aims To Punish Students Who Don’t Buy Textbooks

Patent Aims To Punish Students Who Don’t Buy Textbooks

A patent created by an American economics professor would penalize students who don’t purchase academic textbooks, cracking down on the amount of book sharing and pirating and giving lower grades to students who do this. The patent would require classes to have an online discussion forum to discuss the textbook’s material, one that students could […]

11y ago

Google’s E-Books Store Finally Launches in UK, Australia and Canada

Google’s E-Books Store Finally Launches in UK, Australia and Canada

Brits, Aussies, Canadians: prepare to gorge on cheap (or even free) e-books. Though it’s taken a while, Google’s E-book Store has finally made it to the UK, Australia, and Canada, after a period of US exclusivity. That means those with a Kindle or an Android handset (an Android app is already available, though version 2.1 […]

12y ago

Has the Kindle become the new home of soft-porn?

Has the Kindle become the new home of soft-porn?

There’s nothing wrong with a little bit of Harlequin reading for a guilty pleasure but it seems that when it comes to the Kindle, and the Nook as well, there has been an influx of what is termed erotic romance, or as the less gentile might call it – soft-porn. Right now the Top 100 […]

12y ago

[Or Look At it This Way] Kindle Spares You Shallow Chat Ups

[Or Look At it This Way] Kindle Spares You Shallow Chat Ups

I will admit at the outset that I am a devoted e-book reader- I have a Kindle, but mostly use the Kindle app on my iPhone and have shunned paper and ink books since my very first Kindle Edition. That said, people decide on whether they should lay the mack on someone on the subway […]

12y ago

Graphicly brings your comic love to wherever you are – now with HTML5 goodness

Graphicly brings your comic love to wherever you are – now with HTML5 goodness

I have been a comic book lover for years, I even owned my own comic store for awhile; talk about a kid let loose in a candy store, and when I first heard of Graphicly (previously Graphic.ly but they seem to have dropped the ‘ly’ domain extension) I will admit to being a little sceptical. […]

13y ago

E-Book Sales Now Outweigh Book Sales At Amazon

E-Book Sales Now Outweigh Book Sales At Amazon

With the E-Book market heating up and Amazon drastically dropping the cost of their Kindle e-Readers (the cheapest model is now $114) it was only a matter of time before e-Books began outselling hardcover and paperback books and that is now the case, at least at Amazon.com After just four years of selling the digital […]

13y ago

E-books outpace paperbacks in February sales

E-books outpace paperbacks in February sales

Just a few months after they got their own New York Times Bestseller list, electronic books hit another acceptance milestone- they’ve outpaced paperbacks as the single bestselling format in the US. The sales stats turned in favor of electronic books earlier this year, with paperbacks outselling them in January. By February, ebooks took the top […]

13y ago

‘New York Times’ to add e-book best-seller list

‘New York Times’ to add e-book best-seller list

Well, this kind of feels like a bit of a pivotal moment for e-books- the most nationally referenced best-seller list is getting an e-book list, too. The New York Times, whose best-seller list is often used as a reference point for an author or work’s legitimacy or success (the Times itself modestly refers to its […]

13y ago

Amazon cites ‘individual choice’ in keeping a self-published book for pedophiles in its listing

Amazon cites ‘individual choice’ in keeping a self-published book for pedophiles in its listing

It might only be the 158,221st best-selling Kindle e-book on Amazon but the fact that it is a book titled The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure has created a growing firestorm on blogs and Twitter. The reason apparently that the e-book has slipped in under the radar apparently has to do with the way […]

13y ago

Amazon says new Kindles outselling previous version, doesn’t offer numbers

Amazon says new Kindles outselling previous version, doesn’t offer numbers

According to Amazon, the newer, stripped down Kindle selling for $139 is outperforming previous units sales-wise, but the giant online retailer stopped short of offering numbers to illustrate exactly how well the new device is selling. This iteration of the Kindle’s got some added bullet points, but the $139 wi-fi only price point is probably […]

13y ago

The Nook gets WiFi and a low price

The Nook gets WiFi and a low price

Word out today is that Barnes & Noble will be starting to sell a WiFi enabled version of their Nook e-reader. The price on their site says that the WiFi version will be available for$149.00 and as an extra bonus they are going to be dropping the price of the 3G version from its original […]

14y ago

Late May Kindle 2.5 update includes Twitter, Facebook, content options

Late May Kindle 2.5 update includes Twitter, Facebook, content options

If you’ve got a Kindle or Kindle DX, your device is going to get a bit more social come late May. At the top of the interest list for new Kindle features in Kindle Version 2.5 include connectivity to social networking sites, allowing you to share passages and quotes with contacts on Facebook and Twitter. […]

14y ago

3D Ebooks Could Arrives In A Few Years…Give Us A Break!

3D Ebooks Could Arrives In A Few Years…Give Us A Break!

We totally understand that children love their pop-up books, but is it really necessary for our e-Books to go the way of Hollywood movies? According to Gizmodo that’s the plan and it could be arriving sooner rather than later. 3D e-Books will work much in the same fashion as 3D movies, by requiring special glasses. […]

14y ago

The return of the LP and the future of book publishing

The return of the LP and the future of book publishing

The LP Generation I grew up in the vinyl generation. No I don’t mean anything kinky, so get your minds out of the gutter. For me; and the rest of my generation, the vinyl LP was the audio equivalent of heaven. I still remember the very first album that I bought, Emerson Lake Palmer’s Brain […]

14y ago

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