May 3 2013
Simon & Schuster Overcomes BN Issues with Rising Profits and Small Sales Drop | Publishers Lunch – B&N is still refusing to stock S&S books in large quantities but S&S’s position, according to PublishersMarketplace, hasn’t hurt them much. Ebooks accounted for 30% of post holiday sales in quarter one but the growth isn’t in adult(…)
Apr 14 2013
Scott Turow has taken his lumps around the internet for his bombatic lengthy editorial on the NYTimes. Turow targeted everyone from readers and libraries to search engines as contributing to the death of the American author. But Turow’s lament offers no solutions, only complaints. The main crux of his argument is that the current system(…)
Apr 12 2013
Waterstones founder to launch Spotify-like service for books in 2013 – Waterstones is launching a digital service that SlashGear calls Spotify-like but instead seems like a modern day version of the lending library, only the content will be limited to short stories and serialized content. The program will be called “Read Petite” and the “service(…)
Mar 28 2013
This is a very funny spoof of the Apple commercials along with all kinds of great uses of mobile/computer related terms like docking, sharing, wireless. I’ll take a tall glass please. Georgia Court Censorship Order Threatens Message Boards Everywhere – A Georgia trial court judge signed a restraining order against a message board forum(…)
Mar 27 2013
From my Inbox: It’s Forever’s 10th anniversary, and in celebration we’re giving two lucky fans a chance to win free registration to attend the RT BookLovers Convention! ($474 value*) Enter for a chance to win a ‘Readers’ registration to this year’s convention May 1 – 5, at the Sheraton Kansas City Hotel at Crown Center,(…)
Feb 24 2013
In January 29, 2013, Amazon was granted a business systems patent for the sale of previously owned digital products. This patent was applied for in 2009 and Amazon has done nothing to indicate that it intends to set up a used digital bookstore either when it filed for its patent or when it received approval(…)
Feb 20 2013
‘Knitting Behind Bars’ Helps Inmates Cope with Prison Life – Lynn Zwerling and Sheila Rovelstad started a knitting program for prisons, but not female prisons. Instead, the Knitting Behind Bars program has been introduced to the male inmates and according to this report, it is finding some success. Knitting for these inmates is introducing a(…)
Feb 18 2013
Rumor: Google Planning to Open Retail Stores? – Google is supposedly going to be opening retail store to sell its tablets, phones and upcoming Google Glasses. I’d be surprised if Google didn’t opt for partnerships with Target and Best Buy for an in-store boutique. If Google does launch a physical brick and mortar retail experience,(…)
Jan 25 2013
Connecticut Government proposes bill to require publishers to sell to libraries – Connecticut is the first state to propose a bill which would “require publishers of electronic books to offer e-books for sale to public and academic libraries at the same rates as offered to the general public. ” I’m not sure this is constitutional(…)
Jan 15 2013
America’s first bookless public library will look ‘like an Apple Store’ – Library services are changing quite a bit with the advent of digital books. Bexar County, Texas, will be opening its first 100 percent digital public library system. This digital library system is designed to supplement and not replace existing libraries within the county.(…)
Nov 20 2012
Why the gaming industry needs to pay attention to girls – Pando Daily article cites statistics that suggest the gaming industry’s hardcore focus on the male population is to their detriment: “Women control more than 80 percent of spending. 60 percent of online gamers are women. 94 percent of girls under 18 report playing video(…)
Nov 15 2012
September Bookstore Sales Fell 8% – I guess by now anyone who has ever been interested in reading a 50 Shades book has bought it already. In September the spring and summer’s robust sales due to the trilogy have worn off leaving bookstore sales to droop 8% behind the previous year’s already lackluster numbers. Publishers(…)
Oct 2 2012
New digital imprint launched by ex-Harlequin Marketing Controller – Oliver Rhodes, a former Harlequin Marketing Controller (I’m not really sure what this position is), has launched Bookouture, a new digital publishing imprint which appears to be focused on women. The press release stated: “At Bookouture we’re offering authors great digital royalties (45% of net receipts);(…)
Sep 20 2012
Pisarze w slipkach | Booklips.pl – A collection of male writers in their underwear (or possibly swimming trunks). It’s not what you may think (or maybe it is). Booklips.pl Hachette to raise ebook prices for libraries by 220% – Hachette has followed in the footsteps of HarperCollins and RandomHouse by jacking up the cost of digital(…)
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