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Preparing for What Comes Next 25 Aug 2012 | 03:40 am
I have been happily writing this blog for exactly four years. The first blog post I published, on September 22, 2008, "The Future of Book Publishing" described the state of the industry as a "perfect ...
Demand for E-Books Increases at Libraries 16 Aug 2012 | 05:38 pm
E-books are outpacing all other areas of book sales growth in the United States. Without any doubt, American readers have turned in their ballots, and e-books are here for the long run. During the fir...
Google's Next Stand 1 Aug 2012 | 07:34 am
On July 27, 2012, Google filed a Motion for Summary Judgment in the Author’s Guild vs. Google case. For authors and most others not familiar with legal terms, the definition of a Summary Judgment is a...
The Loneliness of the Independent Bookseller 1 Jul 2012 | 09:20 am
What do Newton Bookshop in Newton, Pennsylvania, Blue Elephant Bookshop in Decatur. Georgia, Edgartown Books in Edgartown, Massachusetts, Mystery Lovers Bookstore in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, and Outwrit...
Self-Published Authors Driving E-Book Sales 19 May 2012 | 08:46 am
I have recently read an estimate that by next year there may be 1 billion e-books sold in the world. just how many e-books are sold is extremely difficult to state because Amazon.com, the world's larg...
Microsoft Enters Electronic Publishing Business 2 May 2012 | 10:15 am
Publishing, technology, and business publications are all abuzz with the news that Microsoft has purchased 17 percent of a newly formed unit of Barnes and Noble (consisting of the Nook and college boo...
Prices on E-Books to Fall 14 Apr 2012 | 08:28 am
The end result of the Department of Justice's anti-trust law suit against five major publishers for what amounts to price fixing will be, at least in the short run, lower prices on e-books for custome...
Encyclopaedia Britannica in the Digital Age 18 Mar 2012 | 01:01 pm
The New York Times and other news sources announced this week that the last print edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica had been published and that when the 4000 volumes currently in sock are sold, ...
Justice Department vs Apple, iPad, and 5 Publishers 10 Mar 2012 | 01:52 pm
When e-books first became popular and Amazon began selling lots of Kindle devices and numerous e-books to read on them, publishers were, as you may remember, extremely worried. They feared e-books to ...
Selecting Publishing Formats For Books 1 Mar 2012 | 02:00 pm
Nowadays when authors and publishers contemplate releasing a new title, there are a number of decisions, strategies, and selections that must be made regarding the book's format. By format, in this in...
