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As ALA Midwinter Closes, A Crucial Moment Looms For E-Books
As the ALA Midwinter Meeting wound down yesterday, PW caught up with ALA executive director Keith Fiels for an exclusive talk about e-books, and the librarians’ upcoming meetings in New York.
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Tracking Amazon: Edgar Nominees Do Better Digitally
Amazon put 17 of this year's Edgar nominees on the main Books page and, as of the afternoon of January 23, 13 of the titles were selling better as Kindle e-books than as physical books.
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Pew Says Ownership of Tablets and E-Readers Doubled Over the Holidays
The Pew Internet and American Life Project today released a "mini-report" on the adoption of tablets and e-readers that the number of Americans owning e-reader devices jumped from 18% to 29%, meaning that nearly 1 in 3 Americans now owns a device.
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iBooks 2: Reinventing Textbooks Or Lulu on Steroids?
While the launch of Apple’s iBooks 2, its new multimedia textbook format, and iBooks Author, the free authoring tool Apple has produced to create them, may indeed “reinvent the textbook,” there are a lot of questions to be answered before it does. That doesn’t mean that Apple didn’t put on quite a show last week.
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Apple Enters the Textbook, Self-Publishing Market
Apple is launching iBooks 2, a new multimedia textbook platform and iBooks Author, a shockingly easy authoring tool to create them – indeed to create any kind of book--and publish them instantly to the iBookstore.
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Penguin Says Library Audiobook Restrictions Not New
After some outlets broke word Wednesday that Penguin had begun restricting libraries' access to digital audiobooks, a spokesperson from the publisher said that no change has actually occurred in the house's policy.
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King, Flynn Sell 1 Million E-books
Simon & Schuster has its first two authors who have topped the 1 million sales level in e-books. Both Stephen King and Vince Flynn recently became members of the 1 million e-books sold club, the publisher reported.
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OverDrive Adds Foreign Language Titles
Digital library distributor OverDrive has added more than 700,000 foreign language titles to its catalog by signing a number of new publishing clients.
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Tracking Amazon: Amazon's SOPA Take
Amazon is taking a more nuanced approach than Wikipedia and some other prominent Web sites in protesting SOPA legislation. On Amazon's front page there is a link that reads "Reasons to oppose or modify SOPA," which links to information on the legislation from netCoalition.com. In a statement, Amazon said, "As much as we dislike piracy, we strongly oppose SOPA in its current form," stating that they "oppose the passage of the SOPA bill as currently drafted."
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Coliloquy Lets Readers Interact with Kindle Books
Coliloquy, a Palo Alto-based startup launching today exclusively on Amazon Kindle E-Ink devices, has a new take on digital publishing.
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Apple Event Set for January 19
Apple has put a date on the much-rumored New York media event planned for later this month. The event--called "an education announcement in the Big Apple"-- will be held January 19 at the Guggenheim Museum.
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Tracking Amazon: Traditional Publishers Dominate Kindle Singles
The top of the Kindle Singles charts has a lot of household names. Six of the top 10 bestselling Kindle Singles titles, as of yesterday, were published by traditional publishing houses.
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Thomas Nelson Fiction Releases First E-only Novel
Thomas Nelson Fiction has released its first digital only novel, Bittersweet Surrender by Diann Hunt. The e-book only title is aimed at taking advantage of the digital devices sold over the holidays, said Allen Arnold, senior v-p and publisher of Thomas Nelson Fiction.
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Tracking Amazon: 'StrengthsFinder 2.0' Crosses 1,600 Days on Bestseller List
StrengthsFinder 2.0 was first published on February 1, 2007, meaning that for all but 191 days of its publication history, it has been in Amazon's Top 100.
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B&N and Laurie Berkner Invite Kids to a 'Party Day'
Barnes & Noble has released its first original NOOK Kids Read and Play e-book for NOOK Color and NOOK Tablet: a musical day-at-the-beach adventure entitled Party Day by wildly popular children’s singer-songwriter Laurie Berkner.
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Kobo Posts Record Holiday Season
There was ten-fold increase in new customers from the company's pre-holiday period, and the total number of registered users nearly doubled from six weeks prior.
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Copia Looking for Digital Services, Content Partners
Copia, a digital content platform offering book content, social networking and retail e-commerce, is offering its services as a back-end service and content provider to publishers, retailers, hardware OEMs and other potential media partners.
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Capstone’s myOn Platform Gains Traction
Just short of one year since its launch last January, Capstone Publishing’s personalized digital platform, myOn, has 700,000 readers and is signing on new publishers at a steady clip. In addition, myOn is also getting kids to read more.
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Tracking Amazon: The Top Books of 2011
The best-selling book was Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, and the bestselling Kindle book was The Help by Kathryn Stockett.
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