Posts Tagged ‘ Books ’

Scribner and Simon & Schuster Digital began selling an “enhanced e-book” of Rick Perlstein’s best-selling doorstop, Nixonland, in the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iBookstore and on Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) on Thursday. The title, which was already available in an Amazon Kindle version, represents the first test of whether Apple can challenge...
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Ebooks go multimedia and Post-Its go home in today's media coverage.
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The editor of "The Imperfectionists" has been made publisher of the Random House and Dial Press imprints.
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The blockbuster novelist Janet Evanovich has taken her scrappy bounty-hunter heroine Stephanie Plum to Random House, leaving her longtime publisher, St. Martin's Press, after more than two months of contract negotiations fell through.
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Edward Packard, a writer for the Choose Your Own Adventure series, is creating interactive books to be formatted as applications for the iPhone or iPad.
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Random House said it will stop doing business with the Wylie Agency, threatening its relationship with writers like Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie.
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I agree with Devin Coldewey at CrunchGear that Andrew Wylie’s deal to publish big authors’ backlists exclusively on the Amazon Kindle is bad for readers (and for authors and for the industry). Fragmenting content such that one has to buy one device to read one author and another to read another is blind to...
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Today’s launch of an Android e-reader app marks Barnes & Noble’s first foray onto that platform—and a shift in strategy. Instead of “BN eReader for iPad” or “BN eReader for PC,” its e-reader apps and software are moving to the Nook brand. That will put Barnes & Noble (Read more »

This is a phenomenal week to be covering the publishing industry. Tuesday, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) released its quarterly earnings. Big surprise, another record-breaking quarter for the folks in Cupertino. A few billion here, a few billion there, blah, blah. How amazing is it that we’re not really surprised by...
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) still isn’t saying how many Kindles it’s selling, but that isn’t keeping the company from shouting how well it’s doing. The latest specifics and non-specifics from the company: “The growth rate of Kindle device unit sales has tripled” since it cut the price of the Kindle...
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