A BBC News story shows how the rush to publish eBooks has caught online retailers off guard as “abuse-themed” material is found on the eShelves alongside regular reading fare. Looks like they’ll have to start previewing and categorizing this stuff.
Category: Publishers
Oct 11
Digital Publishing Headlines
Digital Journal says that three Calvin and Hobbes collections will soon be available as eBook editions. Digital Book World has a post on Scholastic streamlining book selection for kids by digitizing its Book Fairs in a free app. GoodeReader reports Kobo is taking its eBooks and popular eReaders to Spain. Forbes offers a story that seems to …
Oct 08
Tablo aims to streamline eBook publishing
TechCrunch has a story on the Tablo BookMaker start-up that claims to take the complexity out of eBook publishing.
Oct 07
Hachette to distribute English titles worldwide.
Digital Book World reports that Hachette Book Group is getting prepped to distribute all of its English eBook titles worldwide.
Oct 06
Kindle PaperWhite review.
Read the Kindle PaperWhite review at TechHive. Apparently Amazon’s doing something right with this upgrade.
Oct 04
Digital Publishing Update
The Wall Street Journal posted Barnes and Noble’s announcement of the most exciting book and eBook buying season ever. (Have to hand it to B&N. Still, performing well in a highly competitive marketplace.) GoodeReader reports on a law in France that is bound to handicap Amazon’s paper book business with new restrictions on free shipping. …
Oct 03
Pricing, availability and publisher greed create divide.
Wired offers a slightly shrill (or is it just the headline?) piece by Art Brodsky on the problems of inflated prices, availability and publisher greed in the eBook Revolution with warnings that the current trends could fuel a “reads” and “reads not” scenario of disparity for the future.
Oct 02
Are author web pages worth the effort?
A Digital Book World post that discusses whether author web sites are worth the effort to maintain has generated some interesting “pro and con” discussion in the thread that follows it.
Oct 01
Scribd to offer $8.99 per month eBook subscription service.
According to Gigaom, long-time online eBook and document sharing site Scribd has been quietly preparing to become the $8.99 per month eBook subscription service that launched today.
Sep 30
Women leading in Digital Publishing.
Digital Book World talks about the role of women in the burgeoning digital publishing industry.
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