Search Results by tag: ebooks

Bookmarks: Suing the Nook, profitable poetry, and more

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: Generic Wizard Nights, a feline Humbert Humbert, and more

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: The Ontario Library Association has announced the nominees for the 2010 Forest of Reading Program. Votes can be cast for your favourite authors at the OLA's website. Participants have ... Read More »

October 27, 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

2018: the year of total digital takeover?

By Alison Potstra

The end is nigh ... In a survey of 840 international industry experts conducted by the Frankfurt Book Fair, nearly half said that by 2018, digital sales will overtake those of conventionally published books. According ... Read More »

September 30, 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: 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

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

Why your e-books should be free … even though Dan Brown’s aren’t

By Suzanne Gardner

On his Guardian blog Digital Rights, Digital Wrongs, sci-fi author Cory Doctorow argues the case for releasing free e-books simultaneously with print editions. (Doctorow does this himself through the use of Creative Commons licences.) A ... Read More »

August 18, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Industry 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

Cheap irony alert: Orwell removed from Kindle

By Nathan Whitlock

From the Associated Press: A pirated e-book of 1984 led to an Orwellian moment for Kindle customers. Users of Amazon.com's e-reader device were surprised and unsettled over the past day to receive notice that George ... Read More »

July 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Search Results by tag: ebooks

Bookmarks: Generic Wizard Nights, a feline Humbert Humbert, and more

Bookmarks: Google Editions, and more

2018: the year of total digital takeover?

Harvard library director says the book is NOT dead

Bookmarks: porn, piracy, and the Google book settlement

Is Kindle the environmentally friendly option?

Why your e-books should be free … even though Dan Brown’s aren’t

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

Cheap irony alert: Orwell removed from Kindle

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