Dec 19
DRACULA OF THE APES Trilogy Swings Into Action (Horror News) Dracula of the Apes picks up where Bram Stoker’s Dracula left off and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes began. In this horror/fiction hybrid, genre-jumping indie author G. Wells Taylor puts a terrifying twist on a pair of timeless classics. The complete trilogy is now …
Dec 19
Digital Book World reports on how changes in Metadata is impacting authors.
Dec 18
Digital Book World reports on Macmillan striking an eBook deal with Amazon that may include subscriptions.
Dec 17
The New Yorker wonders if Apple had altruistic motives behind its price-fixing scheme. (I have a hard time believing that any large corporate entity can make any decision for any reason other than for profit and market control.)
Dec 16
AppAdvice reports Barnes and Noble updating its Nook app for iOS to 4.0 with new features and improvements.
Dec 15
Gigaom says appeals court judges reviewing Apple’s guilty verdict for its role in an anti-trust suit have thrown some shade on Amazon.
Dec 14
Digital Book World talks about publishing trends and opportunities for 2015.
Dec 12
Talking New Media reports that eBook subscription service Scribd has added titles from publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to its catalog including works by J.R.R.Tolkien.
Dec 11
Fortune.com is trying to understand why the Department of Justice is bringing a Deputy Solicitor General to the Monday appeal of a guilty verdict against Apple for its part in an eBook price-fixing scheme.
Dec 10
According to a Guardian post an analysis of data on eReading trends that was compiled by eBook retailer Kobo showed an unexpected split between bestsellers, and the books consumers actually read all the way to the end. The results are interesting and raise a few questions about the nature of bestsellers.
