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So near, but yet so far. That was the feeling I had reading this piece in Greenwich Time that wondered whether part of the reason e-book sales were declining might be...

Amid the excitement over Penguin Random House's jettisoning of Author Solutions, it's easy to overlook the news that PRH's 47 percent parent Pearson is rebranding itself to reflect its new educational focus....

TeleRead's move to the new site is now expected to happen tomorrow, Saturday, Washington time. We were going to move earlier, but ran into some snags due to the huge volume of...

Microsoft blew it. The company could have been Amazon, too---at least the e-book side around the turn of the century. I can recall going to an industry-government conference eons ago where Microsoft’s...

Want to tell how much you appreciated "My favorite teacher"? If you're a middle or high school student, here's your chance to do that and possibly win a Samsung Nook tablet and a...

Heard of the remarkable Chiune Sugihara---a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania who saved thousands of Jews from the Nazis by issuing them papers to travel to Japan? Until a few days ago,...

Contrary to ethnic and religious stereotypes, I am not celebrating this Christmas Day with a Chinese meal despite my fondness for the cuisine. But as publisher of TeleRead, I will...

Do you like sharing books with your family? In today's cloud-authenticated tech world, you may not have a choice. As the household tech person, you may face new challenges. How to keep your e-book buys private in...

They arrive every few days---e-mail spams from sleazy “expert writers” offering to create TeleRead posts for free. Of course, there’s a catch. The posts will contain links to the companies paying...

Again and again I've warned that books must compete against other forms of entertainment. It is folly to jack up e-book prices and abuse booklovers with DRM. Price is one factor, given...

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Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...

TeleRead.com is now a static archival site, but we're very much alive at TeleRead.org. Big thanks to Nate Hoffelder of The-Digital-Reader.com, who teamed up on the preservation project with ReclaimHosting.com.