What the Heck Does a Book Cost? (The Scholarly Kitchen) The Future of eBooks: The Death of the On-Line eBook Store (Good e-Reader) Kobo CEO Mike Serbinis: Doubling Down on eReaders and International Expansion (DBW) Thin Reads, an online guide… Read More

By Kirk Hiner | for Apple Tell Almost immediately after Apple unveiled the iPhone 5 at last week’s press event, iPhone case manufacturers were bombarding us with new designs and updates to previous models. Seems they trust the rumor sites… Read More

From Campus Technology: Indiana University has signed a deal with Pearson as part of the institution’s sizable eTexts@IU initiative. Pearson is one of just a few major publishers that have been holdouts on the digital textbook project, which allows faculty… Read More

From E-Reader-Info: There are reports that Amazon started to order 6″ color (Triton) touch E Ink panels from E Ink. E Ink will ship over 3 million displays a month to Amazon – starting next week – which probably means… Read More

From E-Reader-Info: There are reports that Amazon started to order 6″ color (Triton) touch E Ink panels from E Ink. E Ink will ship over 3 million displays a month to Amazon – starting next week – which probably means… Read More

Dual screen Ereaders seem doomed….  I wonder why?… There have been several attempts to get dual screen ereaders up and running, the chief ones being the enormous ereaders that Kno intended to produce, and in fact may have actually managed Read More

Laurence Kirshbaum, the former head of Time Warner’s book division, has been named publisher of Amazon’s New York publishing office. He’ll be stepping down from his position with LJK Literary Management, the literary agency he founded not too long ago.… Read More

I’m one frustrated ebooker! I recently purchased several books in hardcover (The Eichmann Trial by Deborah E. Lipstadt and Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg), which is (supposedly) what the publishers prefer I do. But although I bought hardcover versions… Read More

Phil Ollila, Chief Content Officer, Ingram Group:  distribution really matters now.  Traditional publishers got to watch the changes in retail business as the big chains rose up but deidn’t have to do much.  Now this is not the case, publishing… Read More

The Technologizer, Wall Street Journal, and NPR report that Google Books has just added Spy Magazine… to its list of magazines whose contents are viewable online for free. So far, it only has about half the issues available, but the Read More

PersonaNonData published this executive summary of the ebook ISBN study done by the Book Industry Study Group. Here it is (blockquotes omitted): All publishing supply-chain participants want clarity and consistency in applying ISBNs to eBooks and all would like the… Read More

Imagine you’re the head of a big print media company. Sales of your print products have been eroding steadily and you find yourself competing with internet businesses that have very different business models and cost structures. Your own website revenues… Read More

Survey shows misunderstanding of iPad’s place in the ereader market by Andrys Basten Why Smashwords moved to “agency pricing” – explained by Mark Coker Joe Konrath predicts e-publishing boom in 2011 by Chris Meadows How do you cite an e-book’s… Read More