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• 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 »

• Inventor of the Kindle: Amazon is the “mean stepmother in a fairy tale”

  On Monday, The New York Times’ Bits blog had an illuminating insight into one of the minds that created the Amazon Kindle. Indeed, the fate of the book was a common… Read more »

• A Kindle killer?

  BookShout shows that it’s possible to disrupt the hugely expensive work that Amazon and Barnes and Noble have done to “lock” users… Read more »

• Amazon would like to apologize for stealing your books

  I can imagine few more nightmarish scenarios than to be denied access to a portion of my library by some faceless corporate voice… 1 / Read more »

• “One of the biggest screw-ups in the history of book retail”?

  A recent Simba Information report (subscription required) “posits that the decrease in the number of bookstores that we saw in 2011 did not lead to a corresponding growth in ebook… 1 / Read more »

• Et tu, Kindle

  The Folger Shakespeare Library has been publishing William Shakespeare’s plays for years, and it announced this week that it’s releasing its highly popular New Folger Library editions as e-books. Widely… Read more »

• What (really) happens to your eReader when you die?

  In a somewhat comedic article in the New York Times, Kyle Jarrard writes about the fate of eBooks after their owners pass away. It is a grim topic but one… Read more »

• In a dramatic move, Target takes a costly stand against Amazon and “showrooming”

  The New York Times headline says it all: “Target, Unhappy With Being an Amazon Showroom, Will Stop Selling Kindles.” The story beneath that headline, by Stephanie Clifford and Julie Bosman,… Read more »

• The “Amazon Problem” comes to the LBF

  Greetings from London, where I’m at the London Book Fair meeting with publishers from around the world — who all want to speak about one thing: what they call the… 3 / Read more »

• Barnes & Noble incorporates in Germany

  There have long been rumors of a push by US retailers, particularly Barnes & Noble, to gain a share of UK and European markets. As B&N loses its physical footprint… Read more »