The Coming Battle of E-Readers
Okay, so now we know where the e-book is going. Ever upward. To have predicted that twelve years ago, when I had all my novels reversed from major pu...
Okay, so now we know where the e-book is going. Ever upward. To have predicted that twelve years ago, when I had all my novels reversed from major pu...
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 04.30.2012
The truth is that this dispute is not about saving literature or the sanctity of the literary world, it is about the publishers' business model.
Vineet Madan | Posted 04.27.2012
As we push forward with the digital transformation of education, it's worth taking a look at just how greatly technology can impact teaching and learning in this country.
HuffingtonPost.com | Andrew Losowsky | Posted 04.25.2012
By Andrew Losowsky, Books Editor Barnes & Noble just got some new, potentially activist shareholders. Earlier this year, analysts speculated that i...
Lori Culwell | Posted 04.18.2012
Most Internet memes have the shelf life of a banana, and trying to capture these memes in traditional forms like publishing or television is often an exercise in "too little, too late, no one cares anymore."
Dan Kennedy | Posted 04.18.2012
The trouble is that in too many cities and towns, we no longer have a village square except in the form of enclosed spaces owned by profit-seeking corporations. What happened to that protester said a lot more about our privatized idea of community than it does about that one particular incident.
Warren Adler | Posted 04.17.2012
For fiction authors who are published by traditional publishers and rely on advances and royalties for their living, the future is dim.
Dan Agin | Posted 04.15.2012
Here are some truths about the current brouhaha concerning the Department of Justice and the Big Six publishers and Apple controversy.
Will Entrekin | Posted 04.13.2012
The DoJ lawsuit might make things more difficult for those who have based their business models on paper books, but it could well be a boon to smaller publishers, authors, and--most importantly of all--readers.
Peter Scheer | Posted 04.12.2012
It's not possible for Amazon to both (1) sell e-books at a loss in order to reap big profits on Kindle devices, and (2) sell Kindles at a loss to reap big profits on e-books. It may be doing 1 or it may be doing 2, but it can't be doing both at the same time.
Hillary Rettig | Posted 05.26.2012
For many authors, the decision to indie publish is a no-brainer. Sure, it's work, but it's interesting work, and you have a shot at fair compensation for your efforts.
Steve Kettmann | Posted 05.20.2012
Count me among those who would much rather hold a book in my hand as I read, pen at the ready, rather than clicking through glowing text on a screen.
Amanda Guinzburg | Posted 05.09.2012
The fact is the digital train has already long left the station and we, those of us who call ourselves writers and artists, have an obligation to get on board so we might impact the nature of the trip.
William Petrocelli | Posted 04.14.2012
Not so fast with the obituaries. It's time to downplay the similarity between books and records and find some better comparisons.
David Henry Sterry | Posted 04.09.2012
When Nura pitched her anthology revolving around the love lives of Muslim-American women, we were blown away.
nytimes.com | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 03.31.2012
ProPublica, the nonprofit news organization known for its investigative journalism, is about to expand its e-book efforts....
Jason Gilbert | Posted 03.20.2012
The software that Apple introduced Thursday morning at its "Reinventing Textbooks" event represents many, many great things for education in America -...
Karen Dionne | Posted 02.27.2012
If the Internet seemed slow last Sunday, it might have been because around the world, literally millions of new e-reader owners spent a fair part of the day downloading e-books.
C. M. Rubin | Posted 01.29.2012
I recently asked Karen Lotz, the Group Managing Director of Walker Books Ltd, what their estimate for children's e-books and print books over the next 3 to 5 years is.
David Tereshchuk | Posted 01.22.2012
The publishing industry has now fully readied itself for the holidays, with offerings that include yet more aggressively-promoted slices of first-person recollection.
C. M. Rubin | Posted 01.21.2012
Libraries across the United States need our help as they are being closed or having significant cuts made to their budgets.
AP | By The Associated Press | Posted 11.21.2011
-- Internet billionaire and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban will publish a 30,000-word "e-book" focused on business and success, according to The W...
David Meerman Scott | Posted 01.19.2012
Tablets bring a non-linear experience to reading a book. Readers can instantly jump from one part of the book to another. There can be hyperlinks to external content. And it is in full color.
HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 11.17.2011
This is part of our new ongoing series, Libraries in Crisis. To read more about the series, click here. At the Gilpin County Public Library in Colo...
C. M. Rubin | Posted 12.26.2011
On November 26, 1864, Lewis Carroll gave my relative, Alice Pleasance Liddell, a book he had written for her. He called the book Alice's Adventures Underground.
Warren Adler | Posted 05.04.2012