The 2012 physical and digital book sales numbers are out, and they’re not at all what you’d expect.
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How to Write a Book Without Paper
Last month, my first book was published. It was released by an ebook-only publisher, and its story, like the story of writing itself, is linked to technology.
How Small E-Booksellers Could Help Break the Amazon-Apple Duopoly
It’s a scary time for publishers. Last Wednesday, the Department of Justice filed a major antitrust lawsuit against Apple and five big publishers for allegedly price-fixing e-books. The goal was apparently to prevent Amazon, …
How Apple’s Steve Jobs and Book Publishers Cost Consumers Millions
The Department of Justice complaint against Apple and five major publishing houses reads like a case study: A powerful, entrenched industry desperately tries to confront an economic disruption caused by the rise of a new …
Sued: DOJ Brings E-Book Antitrust Lawsuit Against Apple, Publishers
Just like that, Apple is officially on the receiving end of a major antitrust lawsuit filed this morning by the U.S. Justice Department for alleged e-book price-fixing. The suit, filed in New York district court, includes …
Harry Potter and the Release of the Long-Awaited E-Books
J.K. Rowlings’ Harry Potter books have sold around 450 million copies worldwide — all of them made out of an ancient material your parents know as “paper.” Today, the entire series is entering the digital age, selling as …
Justice Department Threatens Apple, Publishers over E-Book Pricing
Did you notice that e-books became a little more expensive after Apple entered the game with iBooks? So did the U.S. Department of Justice, which may be threatening to sue Apple and e-book publishers for allegedly colluding to …
5 Famous Writers Who Loathe E-Books
Jonathan Franzen and other famous writers that won’t be reading novels on a Kindle anytime soon.
Digital Library Lending Up 130% in 2011
If you build it, they will come. Not just words of wisdom from a Kevin Costner movie anymore, but the experience of libraries across America. They’ve seen a triple-digit jump in the amount of digital lending during the last year …
Apple Poised to ‘Digitally Destroy’ Textbooks? Don’t Bet On It
We’ll be there (and live-blogging) at Apple’s “education event” this Thursday, Jan. 19 at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, but the scuttlebutt going in has Cupertino announcing a platform to — wait for it — “digitally destroy” …
Amazon Prime’s Free Kindle E-Book List Leans on Filler, Public Domain
The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library sounds like a good deal, with more than 5,000 Kindle e-books available for free if you have an Amazon Prime subscription. But many of the most popular titles are filler in the form of public domain books, self-help books and video-based workout instructions.
Amazon started offering free e-book …
Amazon ‘Prime’ Members Now Get Free Kindle E-Book Rentals
Amazon’s bringing free Kindle e-book rentals to Amazon Prime members, but a bunch of restrictions make the service less attractive than it could be.
The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, as it’s officially called, lets Amazon Prime members check out one book at a time in one-month increments. If the member switches to another book when …
