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Barnes & Noble e-books are coming to town

B&N announced yesterday that beginning around Dec. 1, Canadian customers will have access to the U.S. retailer's e-book store and will be able to download titles to their iPhones, BlackBerrys, etc. However, B&N's own e-reader, ... Read More »

November 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Suing the Nook, profitable poetry, and more

By Alison Potstra

Bookish links from around the Web: According to Amazon, Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin is the best book of 2009. Also on its list of the top 10 books of 2009: Strength in ... Read More »

November 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Google Editions, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Google announces that its online e-book service, known as Google Editions, will launch sometime in the first half of 2010. According to a report on CNET, Google will take ... Read More »

October 15, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Harvard library director says the book is NOT dead

By Alison Potstra

Despite Google's "colonization of e-books," the advent of the Kindle Reader, and today's publication of The Lost Symbol, Harvard University's library director, Robert Darnton, argues in Publisher's Weekly that the book is not dead, nor shall ... Read More »

September 15, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Google gets friendly, Quartet Press shuts down, and more

By Stuart Woods

Sundry links from around the Web: Google will allow rivals to sell copies of its digital books Upstart digital publisher Quartet Press shuts down before it ever really got started Marion Boyers, the venerable independent U.K. ... Read More »

September 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: porn, piracy, and the Google book settlement

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Best thing about an e-reader? You can read smut, and no one has to know On a similar note: the top ten most pirated e-books of 2009 (#1: the Kamasutra; #2: Adobe ... Read More »

September 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Only in America: Sony’s new wireless e-reader

By Scott MacDonald

There's a lot of hubbub south of the border today about the launch of Sony's new Daily Edition e-reader, the first Sony e-reading device to go wireless. According to The L.A. Times: The Daily Edition ... Read More »

August 25, 2009 | Filed under: Industry news

Is Kindle the environmentally friendly option?

By Steven W. Beattie

A recent report from the Cleantech Group analyzed the environmental impact of traditional publishing as measured against e-book publishing, and declared the latter to be the clear winner on environmental grounds. Calling the publishing industry ... Read More »

August 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: new e-reader from Sony, Ignatieff’s a union man, censorship in Iraq, reading in Venezuela, and more

By Nathan Whitlock

Some book-related links: Sony to release two new e-readers Michael Ignatieff re-joins the Writers' Union Iraqi publishers worry about new censorship laws Venezuela's Revolutionary Reading Plan Arsenal Pulp re-designs and re-releases Hard Core Logo Even ... Read More »

August 5, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Barnes & Noble launches world’s biggest e-book store

By Suzanne Gardner

U.S. mega-chain Barnes & Noble announced in a press release yesterday the creation of the world's biggest e-book store comprising "more than 700,000 titles, including hundreds of new releases and bestsellers at only $9.99." Unlike ... Read More »

July 21, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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