Apple is an experiment and Google will have a big impact
Larry Kirshbaum, LJK Literary Movement; Ken Cader, PUblishers Lunch; Ken Brooks, Cengage Learning; Evan Schnittman, Oxford University Press; Mike Shatzkin, moderator If you were publishing a book this...
View ArticleMajority of pirated files are not hacked ebooks: they are scanned pbooks,...
Untangling and understanding the ebook supply chain Peter Balis, John Wiley and Sons; Niel Del Young, Hachette Book Group; Leslie Hulse, Harper Collins; Andrew Weinstein, Ingram Digital; Mark Coker,...
View ArticleEssential reading of the new filings on the Google Book Settlement
Resource Shelf pointed me to this great roundup of the most interesting filings on the Settlement. It is from Professor James Grimmelmann’s (New York Law School) site The Laboratorium The Creative...
View ArticleThe Case for the Kindle by John Miedema
The Case for Books is the title of Robert Darnton’s new book. I am reading the hardcover print edition, my other Christmas gift after a Kindle. The physical casing of books seems in question in the...
View ArticleYour Library and the Ebook Format Wars—A Good Change? by Tony Bandy
I noticed that in the stories following CES this year, lots of media outlets were amazed at the sheer quantities of e-readers, tablets and other media devices on parade. Library Journal,...
View ArticleThe real agenda of Apple’s ebook partners: death to ebooks by Aaron Pressman
The head of one of the big book publishers, Macmillan CEO John Sargent Jr., is out with an “open” letter about his dispute with Amazon over the pricing and timing of electronic books. It’s telling that...
View ArticleTech Change: The library’s changing approach to ebooks and technology! By...
For many of us ebook readers, we are surrounded by physical libraries, yet very often they don’t even register on our radar screen. Too many of us still equate them storytimes, tax forms and the latest...
View ArticleObooko website – for new authors to test the water
I got this email from Tony Stanton of Obooko and thought it was worth reproducing in part: obooko is a new (we started November 2009) website devoted to giving new writers the opportunity to...
View ArticleChinese survey on reading – newspapers down, digital reading up
According to the Global Times, the 7th annual National Reading Survey canvassed 29 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities and covered over 19,000 readers. It round that newspaper reading...
View ArticleReading on an iPad in before you go to sleep can keep you awake
That’s what this article in the LA Times tech blog says, and on pretty good authority too. Evidently light emitting devices like a cellphone or the iPad can cause the inhibition of the body’s secretion...
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