Category: Publishing
Kindle is a hit with readers but terrifying to publishers
The Kindle has been around since November 2007 and Amazon has yet released any sales figures. Anecdotal evidence suggests that Amazon has sold anywhere between 40,000 – 140,000 Kindle units…
Esquire magazine will publish next months issue with an e-ink cover
Esquire Magazine celebrates its 75th birthday this year. To celebrate this milestone Esquire has partnered up with a Cambridge, Massachusetts based technology company, E Ink Corporation (the same company which…
Tor.com goes live, get 24 free sci-fi and fantasy e-books
Back in May we got wind of a new social fanzine site especially for science-fiction and fantasy readers, Tor.com was due for launch we were told imminently, but as with…
Christian publishers are adding thousands of new titles for Kindle e-books
An Amazon.com press release today revealed that 11 top Christian publishers are to make available thousands of e-book for the Kindle. From the Amazon.com press release; Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), today…
A very boring BookExpo ends, Amazon missed an opportunity
BookExpo, the US industry largest annual trade exhibition ended last month in Los Angeles without a clear strategy to revive the industry. The book industry which is going through troubling…
Princeton University to publish Kindle textbooks
Princeton University Press has announced that it will start publishing Kindle edition textbook this fall, according to Inside Higher Education, Princeton will follow other prominent educational establishments like Yale, Oxford…
The Kindle effect? Has the Kindle effected US e-book sales?
Whilst tracking Kindle sales is like guess work, tracking US e-book sales is a bit easier, the above graphic shows US e-book sales from Q1 2002 – Q1 2008. Whilst…
Tor: A social fanzine for science fiction and fantasy readers
Tor Books is a major hardcover and paperback science fiction and fantasy publisher, one of the largest in the English-speaking world, it announced recently that it was working on a…
POD publishers file antitrust suit againt Amazon
Today BookLocker.com has filed an antitrust suit against Amazon.com on behalf of POD (Print On Demand) publishers. It all started in late March when Amazon contacted a number of US…