"Cooking with Poo" wins prize for oddest book title; "Memoirs of a Japanese...
A Thai cookbook has won this year's Diagram Prize for oddest book title of the year. Cooking With Poo is written by Bangkok chef Saiyuud Diwong whose nickname is Poo - which is Thai for "crab". Diwong...
View ArticleE-books settlement could be reached within a couple of weeks
According to Reuters, The Justice Department could reach a settlement in the next few weeks with Apple Inc and some of the major publishers accused of colluding to push up electronic book prices. While...
View ArticleAmazon turns the screws on publishers demanding ever deeper discounts
The bad news came to McFarland & Co. in an email from Amazon. Starting Jan. 1, 2012 - then only 19 days away - Amazon would buy the publisher's books at 45 percent off the cover price, roughly...
View ArticleStates increasingly fight back against Amazon tax deals as study reveals...
US states have lost more than $52 billion during the past six years due to untaxed Internet purchases, according to a University of Tennessee study. Facing massive budget deficits that threaten further...
View ArticleNew Worldreader app for 'dumb phones' hopes to bring ebooks to millions in...
US non-profit literacy agency Worldreader has beta-launched an app for non-smartphones in order to distribute free e-books into sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the developing world. The...
View ArticleGoogle to end its ebooks reseller program worldwide
Google has informed the American Booksellers Association and Powell's Books that it will end its Google eBooks reseller program worldwide. A few weeks ago it had seemed as if independent booksellers...
View ArticleUK tax authorities investigate Amazon due to $5bn in sales but no corporation...
Amazon.co.uk, Britain's biggest online retailer (responsible for one in every four books sold in the UK, to name just one product category in its enormous repertoire), is being investigated by British...
View ArticleOne-fifth of Americans read an ebook in 2011
According to the Pew Research Center Study one in five American adults read an e-book in 2011 and 43% read at least one long-form digital text (e.g. an ebook or magazine). 88% of those who read an...
View ArticleHarper Lee and Aldous Huxley once again among most challenged titles in US...
The American Library Association has released its list of the Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2011. The Top Ten list includes Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, To Kill a Mockingbird by...
View ArticleWill 2013 be the year of the glowing Kindle?
Back in 2010 Amazon quietly booked a Swedish company that is said to be the world leaders in "light-guide" technology. It is this technology that Techcrunch predicts will be behind a new generation of...
View ArticleHachette, HarperCollins and S&S settle price-fixing allegations.
Three publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster—have agreed to a proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle federal claims of price fixing regarding e-books....
View Article"The Casual Vacancy" by J.K. Rowling to published late September 2012
Little, Brown UK has announced the title and publication date of JK Rowling's first novel for adults. The Casual Vacancy, described as a "blackly comic" novel centered around a small town in which...
View ArticleApple calls charges of collusion "simply not true"
A day after the Justice Department filed suit against Apple and five publishers over the agency model for e-books, Apple called the charges of collusion "simply not true." Quoted in the Wall Street...
View ArticlePulitzer Prizes announced. Prize for fiction not awarded as judges could not...
The Pulitzer Prizes have been awarded including a first win for online news network, The Huffington Post. Other winners include: Nonfiction: Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How The World Became Modern...
View ArticleApple wants to go to trial to defend itself against price-fixing allegations
Apple wants to go to trial to defend itself against U.S. government allegations of colluding with publishers to fix e-book prices, Apple lawyer Daniel Floyd told U.S. District Judge Denise Cote...
View Article'Three Cups of Tea' author, Greg Mortenson, and publisher seek dismissal of...
At a federal court hearing this week, author Greg Mortenson and his publisher sought dismissal of a lawsuit that "aims to obtain class-action relief for book-buyers allegedly defrauded by purported...
View ArticleTor publisher announces all ebooks will be DRM free by July - enabling books...
Tom Doherty Associates - comprising the Tor, Forge, Orb, Starscape, and Tor Teen imprints - has announced that their entire list of ebooks will be available DRM-free "by early July." In a separate,...
View ArticleBarnes & Noble and Microsoft form partnership in new B&N subsidiary combining...
Barnes & Noble and Microsoft have formed a partnership in a new B&N subsidiary - temporarily called Newco - that consists of B&N's digital business and B&N College. Microsoft is making...
View ArticleToni Morrison to be awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom
Toni Morrison is one of thirteen people to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom - the USA's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions...
View ArticlePushing back against 'Showrooming', Target will no longer stock Kindles
Target plans to stop selling Amazon Kindle e-readers and tablets, and has already removed the products from its website. "This is evidence that Target is getting more serious about Amazon as an enemy...
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