[Press Release]Courier Acquires FastPencilAdvanced Content Management and Self-Publishing Platform…Courier Corporation (Nasdaq: CRRC), one of America’s leading innovators in book manufacturing and content management, today announced that it has acquired FastPencil, Inc., a developer of end-to-end, cloud-based content Read More

[Press Release]ProQuest Celebrates America’s National Library Week with Complimentary Access to Resources…Open access to homework databases, e-books, plus marketing support for libraries at proquest.com/go/celebrate April 14 through 20ProQuest, an information firm central to research, is celebrating America’s National Read More

By Brian Howard A few weeks ago, crowdfunding platform Unglue.it announced the release of its first e-book, Oral Literature in Africa, via Cambridge’s Open Book Publishers. While the scholarly tome by Ruth H. Finnegan likely didn’t set the publishing world… Read More

Patience has run out for librarians around the unsolved issue of e-book lending at libraries, according to American Library Association president Maureen Sullivan. Speaking at a private gathering of publishers organized by the Association of American Publishers, Sullivan was explaining… Read More

Yesterday, the American Library Association published a public letter to publishers, imploring publishers that don’t already to sell their e-books to libraries. Today, the Association of American Publishers has fired back with a letter of its own: AAP Statement in … Read More

With Macmillan coming out with a reported pilot program, Hachette’s new e-book pricing for libraries and the expansion of library e-book distribution, the topic of library e-book lending is gaining momentum. Today, an open letter from the head of the… Read More

Editorial by Julieta Lionetti BUENOS AIRES: On August 15, when Russ Grandinetti, VP, Kindle Content, opened his address at the 22nd Bienal do Livro in Sao Paulo, speaking in moderately good Portuguese, I knew that at least one of the… Read More

By Edward Nawotka, Editor-in-Chief Today’s feature story reveals that Apple is rushing to launch it iBookstore in Latin America, making it the first of the large international e-book players to gain a foothold in the region. It’s no secret that… Read More

By Olivia Snaije A new open source platform for e-books is getting ready to launch next month in France. CEO Guillaume Decitre, of Decitre.fr, France’s third largest online bookstore, created the ‘tea’, the e-book alternative, with e-book tech experts Valérie… Read More

OverDrive, the main distributor of commercial e-books for America’s public libraries and probably others in the English-speaking world, will build a “global headquarters” in Garfield Heights, Ohio—complete with a 12-acre campus for 300 employees in 95,000 square feet of office… Read More

By Erin L. Cox So, you think there are no more book parties in New York? Well, when you have a banner year like American writer Bradford Morrow with a lot to celebrate, there is. After not having published a… Read More

Creating Enhanced and Accessible E-books to Open Significant New Markets Wednesday, September 28, 20112:00 p.m. ET/11:00 a.m. PT… Are your e-books available to people with reading disabilities? If not, you are missing out on a significant percent of the marketplace. Read More

Interviews with Brian Wafawarowa, Executive Director of Publishers’ Association of South Africa, and Peter Brantley, director of the Bookserver Project at the Internet Archive in the USA By Nicholas Gary, editor of ActuaLitté On the occasion of UNESCO’s World Forum… Read More

By India Amos, Textist About two weeks ago, in a fit of pique, I posted some gripes about my current e-reading application of choice, which is Kobo for the iPhone/iPod Touch. I was pressed for time, so I didn’t provide… Read More