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Legal Battles Rage Over E-Book Rights To Old Books

nytimes.com | MOTOKO RICH | Posted 12.12.2009 | Books

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But the question of exactly who owns the electronic rights to such older titles is in dispute, making it a rising source of conflict in one of the pub...

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Amazon Sucks Up To Big Literary Agents

Crain's New York Business | Matthew Flamm | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books

Read More: Kindle, E-Books, Future of Publishing, Amazon Pricing, Ereaders, Literary Agents, Amazon.com, Publishing, Kindle eBooks, Amazon Kindle, New York Literary Agents, Book Agents, Authors, E-Readers, Ebooks, Books, Amazon, Books News

Amazon.com has gone on a charm offensive. The online retailing giant flew out a dozen of New York's top literary agents last week for a day of meetin...

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The Great Conversation Interrupted. Kindle, Annotated.

Gerald Sindell | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Writers, Amazon Kindle, Margins, Kindle, Reading, Writing, Books, E-Books, Annotations, Books News
Gerald Sindell

When we buy a copy of a book, we own that copy. When we purchase, for almost as many dollars, a Kindle or other electronic version of a book, we have not really bought a copy of the book.

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Apple Tablet: A Kindle-Killer?

PC Magazine | Tim Bajarin | Posted 10.26.2009 | Books

Read More: Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Apple, Barnes and Noble Nook, E-Books, E-Readers, Books, Ebooks, Apple Tablet, Barnes and Noble, Ereaders, Nook, Books News

There is, however, a device on the horizon that could really disrupt the e-reader market, and may even render them irrelevant in the near future. The ...

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How e-Books Could Smarten Up Kids and Stretch Library Dollars: A National Plan

David Rothman | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Libraries, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Reading, Digital Libraries, Literacy, Students, Epub, Digital Library System, Books, Ebooks, E-Books, Ereaders, Teleread, Books News
David Rothman

Suppose a well-stocked national digital library system existed for Americans of different ages, along with the means to encourage schoolchildren and others to use it.

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Stephen King's New E-Book To Cost $35

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 10.21.2009 | Books

Read More: E-Book Prices, Publishing, Price Wars, Book Publishing, Stephen King, Books, E-Books, Ereaders, Stephen King E-Book, Under the Dome, Books News

NEW YORK — The latest weapon in the publishing price wars: Stephen King. Scribner announced Wednesday that the digital edition of King's "Under...

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Plastic Logic's Que eReader Announced

CNET News | Ina Fried | Posted 10.19.2009 | Books

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Plastic Logic has given a name--but not a launch date--for its forthcoming e-reader. The e-book reader, which can display electronic books as well as...

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Etch-A-Sketch and Google Announce E-Books for Kids

Gerald Sindell | Posted 10.16.2009 | Comedy

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Gerald Sindell

A new e-book reader for kids will capitalize on the highly refined Etch-a-Sketch two knob interface and will include a ventilator to simulate the breath of reading parents, but will not display text. Or pictures.

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Does The Brain Like e-Books?

The New York Times | The Editors | Posted 10.15.2009 | Books

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Is there a difference in the way the brain takes in or absorbs information when it is presented electronically versus on paper? Does the reading exper...

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Why E-Books are Hot and Getting Hotter

Mark Coker | Posted 10.15.2009 | Books

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Mark Coker

2009 will go down in history as the year e-books went mainstream.

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Jane Friedman's New E-Book Company

The New York Times | Motoko Rich | Posted 10.14.2009 | Books

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Sixteen months after stepping down as president and chief executive of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, Jane Friedman has formed a new company that...

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New e-Book Readers To Compete With Kindle

TIME | Adam Rose | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books

Read More: Sony, Amazon Kindle, Kindle, Apple, E-Readers, Books, Irex, Apple Tablet, E-Books, New E-Readers, Ereaders, Books News

Amazon is about to be attacked by a squadron of would-be Kindle killers that are being brought to market by some of the biggest names in consumer elec...

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Man's Attention at Attention

Anthony Zuiker | Posted 10.13.2009 | Books

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Anthony Zuiker

Instead of just writing a novel, I decided to pair it with a motion picture and offer a social networking site at the same price as a traditional book.

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Books are Good for Toothache

Alan Black | Posted 10.09.2009 | Books

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Alan Black

The first pages I stuffed into my tooth were from Crime and Punishment, and once they had reached a soggy end, I rammed in The Idiot. But Dostoevsky failed to dull the pain.

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Kindle Confessions

Jane Isay | Posted 10.09.2009 | Books

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Jane Isay

I read like a madwoman. I would get drowsy, and on those long reading afternoons when the Kindle slipped from my hand, it fell silently on the pillow and I slept.

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It's the End of the Book as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

Adam Penenberg | Posted 10.09.2009 | Books

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Adam Penenberg

While we've witnessed the digital tsunami plowing under the music industry and news business -- and lapping at the shores of TV, movies and radio -- books, until recently, have been largely sheltered.

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"Can't We All Just Get Along?" -- A Manifesto of Sorts

Steve Ross | Posted 10.08.2009 | Books

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Steve Ross

I have noticed over the past few years a troubling trend entering the picture, a trend that is encapsulated in the blogs posted by Chip O'Brien and Mark Coker.

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Why New Books Don't Sell on the Kindle: The Price of the Intangible

Chip O'Brien | Posted 10.07.2009 | Books

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Chip O'Brien

The cost of an e-book has become such a point of contention because it makes distinct something we haven't had to distinguish until now: the price of content, independent from its medium.

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Why You Should Write in Your Books Now

Steve Leveen | Posted 10.07.2009 | Books

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Steve Leveen

If you have children or other loved ones who will someday inherit your books, you should write in them now. You need to know this: your handwriting inside your books may be their passport to preservation.

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Why We Need $4.00 Books

Mark Coker | Posted 10.07.2009 | Books

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Mark Coker

The day has come for publishers to offer a $4.00 book. Most books are too expensive. Compared to lower cost alternative media sources, books are becoming niche consumables like caviar.

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Attention Fellow Book Lovers: HuffPost's New Books Section Is Here

Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

Read More: E-Books, Book Reviews, Publishing, Book Publishing, Huffpost Books, Publishing Industry, Books, New York Review of Books, Ereaders, Books News
Arianna Huffington

My love affair with books is a long one. As a little girl growing up in Athens, I remember sending my friends home early from my fifth birthday party because all that celebrating was keeping me away from my books. Who needed friends and cake? I had my books! Since I was 21, there hasn't been a time when I wasn't researching or writing a book. Until now. So, instead of my signing another book contract, we are launching a Books section, in partnership with the New York Review of Books, where you'll find the latest book-related news and blog posts, book reviews, all sorts of special features, and, of course, articles from the New York Review of Books. So if you love books, reading, and good writing, please check out HuffPost Books.

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New On E-Books

Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

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Every week we're going to update new e-book releases whether it's a recently published bestseller or your favorite classic that finally made it into t...

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Napster For Books: The Way Of The Future?

The New York Times | RANDALL STROSS | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

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You can buy "The Lost Symbol," by Dan Brown, as an e-book for $9.99 at Amazon.com. Or you can don a pirate's cap and snatch a free copy from another ...

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Vook: Changing The Book?

Entertainment Weekly | Keith Staskiewicz | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

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Is a Vook: A) An endangered bird B) What you hear when Zsa Zsa Gabor curses you out C) The latest development in digital reading D) None o...

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Why the Digital Revolution is Missing the Big Picture

Jason Pinter | Posted 10.05.2009 | Books

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Jason Pinter

By marketing the Kindle to me -- i.e. 'adults' who already read regularly -- publishing is merely doubling down on the biggest problem facing the industry: not enough people read books.

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