Buy at Dover online and donate to reading charity
Dover Publications, that venerable publisher best known for art, craft and Thrift Edition titles, has just announced a special for its 75th anniversary. According to the alert, "Dover Publications is pleased...
Ereaders’ next growth area: kids
Kids will lead the coming surge in ereader adoption, suggests the Boston Globe in an article this weekend:
"This is a generation of kids that have learned to communicate, search and purchase...
Random House figures out another way to make you pay them for your own...
Not content to have Author Solutions on board to take care of all its author-charging needs, Penguin Random House has apparently decided to go direct, with the launch, via the UK...
Libraries and publishers should try to play nice with each other
On Publishers Weekly, librarian Brian Kenney talks about publishers and public libraries. Pointing out that most industries would be crazy to discard the sort of taxpayer-funded marketing that the 17,000 public...
Why publishers have trouble building relationships with consumers
Why are publishers so lousy at building the close relationships with consumers that they’re going to need in the coming digital age? Publishing consultant Mike Shatzkin suggests that part of...
Are magazine apps like games on the iPad or more like books? by Adam...
Bloomberg Businessweek produced a pretty effective and straightforward app for the iPad earlier in the week. And it got predictably mixed reviews from the magazine app critics. Grudging and faint...
Ebook sales doubled in July
From Publishers Weekly:
E-book sales had their smallest increase of the year in July, while the adult hardcover segment had one of its strongest months, according to the AAP’s monthly sales...
Creating e-book files with Scrivener
Until recently, the main formatting tools that self-publishing writers could use to create e-books were expensive desktop-publishing applications that cost a lot of money to buy and a lot of time...
Free webcast: Ebooks vs. Apps: The Pros, Cons and Possibilities
This free webcast will take place on July 27 from 1 to 2 pm EDT. Here's the description:
Between the overwhelming popularity of the iPad and the increased adoption and continuing...
Demise of Borders highlights vanishing print infrastructure
Joseph Esposito of Scholarly Kitchen has a post looking at the demise of Borders and what it means for the publishing industry. Yes, I know, we’ve posted plenty of those looks...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
