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eBooks

• What does it mean that the New York Times Book Review is no longer listing bestseller prices?

  Having recently taken the helm of the New York Times Book Review, Pamela Paul recently charted her first series of course corrections. Most curious among them: book prices are no longer to be printed… Read more »

• DOJ calls Apple “ringmaster” in pretrial filings

  Two weeks before United States of America vs. Apple Inc., the infamous e-book price-fixing case originally brought against Apple and five of the Big Six publishers, goes to trial, the… Read more »

• No Nooks in England: ereaders sell out after “unprecedented demand”

  Well, it can’t all be bad news, I guess. After dropping the price of their Nook Simple Touch (I’m pretty sure it’s called the Nouk Simple Touch across the pond) from £79 to… Read more »

• What will the “Big Library Read” reveal about the potential for ebook marketing in libraries?

  At the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting in January 2013, Eric Hellman, the founder of GlueJar, a start-up devoted to relicensing ebooks under the Creative Commons license, presented an idea… Read more »

• South Korean bookseller sets new standard for rock-bottom ebook prices

  The U.S. isn’t the only place where corporations are dropping ebook prices below levels the industry can support. South Korea’s largest bookstore, Kyobo (not to be confused with Canada’s lovely Kobo),… Read more »

• How short is too short for a stand-alone ebook?

  Jason Boog of Galleycat reported last week that some authors publishing shorter works with the Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing program (“I could have released my book with a lot of… Read more »

• Ebooks account for 22.55% of publishing revenue in 2012

  A new survey from the Association of American Publishers (AAP) published last week revealed that ebook sales continued to rise in 2012. Ebook sales now account for 22.55% of publishing… Read more »

• Tim Waterstone to launch Read Petite

  Tim Waterstone, founder of the eponymous UK bookshop chain Waterstones, is launching Read Petite, a digital book service that will publish both new and old short fiction and non-fiction and eventually long-form journalism.… Read more »

• More proof that small publishers and Amazon don’t speak the same language

  Small publishers are fighting Amazon, one language at a time. In a victory for both small publishers and minority languages, the independent publisher Diglot Books is celebrating after Amazon was… Read more »

• New e-textbooks tell your teacher when you haven’t done your homework

  Every student’s worst nightmare is nearly a reality—textbooks that tell your professor when you haven’t done your course reading. According to David Streitfeld in The New York Times, a number of… Read more »