[Press Release]CHARLOTTE, N.C., May 6, 2013 – Baker & Taylor, the world’s largest distributor of digital and physical books and entertainment products, has released a new, free application for tablets and smartphones called axisReader, which allows patrons of libraries with… Read More

The translation of stories into paper books took thousands of years and over two decades to accumulate on my humble book shelf. My brain on the other hand… has been evolving to read in codex form for over 1500 years.… Read More

[Press Release]BiblioCrunch Teams up with Wattpad and MediaBistro…We are so excited to announce our new partnerships with Wattpad and MediaBistro.Wattpad We have teamed up with Wattpad to enrich the offerings available to the BiblioCrunch concierge services.Now, in addition Read More

[Press Release] NYC-BASED BIBLIOCRUNCH TEAMS UP WITH WATTPAD TO PROMOTE AUTHORS… BiblioCrunch, a marketplace to find quality, vetted editorial and book publishing services, is teaming up with Wattpad to enrich the offerings available to the BiblioCrunch concierge services. Now, in Read More

BiblioCrunch, a community where self-published authors can find professional services like editorial and design feedback, has partnered with digital publishing community Wattpad to enhance services for its premium level users. Here is more from the BiblioCrunch blog: “Now, in addition… Read More

[Press Release] De Gruyter Signs 10,000 Title eBook Agreement with YBP Library Services… – Agreement to add academic ebook titles to GOBI3 database – De Gruyter, the international academic publishing house, announced today that it has signed an agreement with Read More

Bibliographic information site Bowker has teamed up with digital publishing services company Vook to make more tools available to self-published authors using MyIdentifiers.com. Thanks to the partnership, authors using MyIdentifiers.com, will now be able to purchase Vook’s eBook production and… Read More

[Press Release] Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL) Teams with Bowker to support Self Publishers… MyIdentifiers.com now offers eBook conversion alongside ISBN Data Conversion Laboratory (DCL), a leader in future proofing content for eBooks, online training manuals, archived documents and more, is Read More

[Press Release] ProQuest and Bibliotheque National de France Advance Access to Important and Rare Works via Early European Books Program… Digitization of 70,000 early volumes accelerates initiative to build survey of printing In Europe to 1700 ProQuest and the Bibliotheque Read More

People in Bexar County, Texas, should be excited about the 10,000-e-book “BiblioTech” library system that the country is starting from scratch—without paper books. This is reportedly the first U.S. public library system to shun paper, cardboard and ink, except for… Read More

BiblioTech, the USA’s first book-less library, is set to open later this fall in San Antonio, Texas. The 4,989 sq-ft. library will offer 50 ereaders for loan, along with tablets and computers.… Read More

Bibliophiles and fans of Japanese literature might be interested in Random House’s latest promotional app for Haruki Murakami, whose latest paperback IQ84 is coming out on January 22, 2013. The calendar app’s clean, minimal designs reflect the Japanese author’s post-modernist… Read More

By Alex Mutter The Monkey’s Paw, an “idiosyncratic antiquarian bookshop” in Toronto, has unveiled the Biblio-Mat, a homemade vending machine that dispenses random books for just two dollars each. Conceived of as an “artful alternative” to bookstore sidewalk bins, the… Read More

“E-Reading Isn’t Reading:” A GIF Response (Book Riot) Kim Dotcom’s plan to give New Zealanders free Internet could just work (The Next Web) Amazon Prime monthly rate was a test, and it’s over (GeekWire) Amazon sellers complain of tied-up payments,… Read More