On April 9 the Book Industry Study Group held a collective survey and televideo call in response to the ongoing novel coronavirus, with a tone that could be best described… Read more »

Just last week we wrote about the latest movements in the ongoing standoff between Macmillan and libraries regarding the publisher’s ebooks. A very very quick re-re-cap: On November 1st 2019, Macmillan instituted… Read more »

Times are tough—not just tough, but terribly uncertain. But some things remain unchanged, and one of them is that we are never going to stop championing independent bookstores. So with… Read more »

The eBook distribution company, Smashwords, has announced a new bookselling tool that will allow readers to buy and read books before they’re properly on the market. The key here is that there… Read more »

Since its debut, the ebook has come with a fair amount of philosophical baggage. Is it even a book? Is it the death of the book? Introduce the concepts of… Read more »

Let’s face it, book publishers are not always the first to adapt to new technologies. I mean, how many of our entry level jobs involved taking dictation? Imagine an analogous… Read more »

iBooks: great for pounding down digital manuscript submissions, binge-sampling published books, and helping to obliterate the printed word. iBooks might lack for personality and features, but hey, it’s still better than reading… Read more »

There’s so much wretchedness in the world these days, and we hate to add to your ennui, but answer this: if romance writers can’t insert penis euphemisms into their titillating titles, WHAT IS… Read more »

It’s been ten years since Amazon’s Kindle introduced e-books as a major component of the publishing market, and four-ish years since Hachette and Simon & Schuster successfully negotiated with Amazon… Read more »

A pair of recent announcements from Walmart and Apple have given the American e-book market a shot in the arm. Last Thursday, Walmart announced on their corporate blog that they… Read more »