Apple bringing iBooks to iPhone; now estimated at 22% of ebook market
Apple announced today that iBooks, its electronic reader application and e-bookstore, is getting new new features, including the ability to make notes, create bookmarks and read PDF documents. The app,...
View ArticleBarbara Kingsolver wins the 15th Orange Prize for Fiction
Barbara Kingsolver has won the Orange Prize for Fiction for The Lacuna. The Orange Prize carries a 30,000 UK pound award (about US$48,000) award, and winners receive a bronze figurine nicknamed the...
View ArticleBritish child abuse vetting scheme cancelled as 'draconian'
The vetting scheme that, in its original proposal, would have required one in four British adults to go through a government approval process before being allowed contact with children and vulnerable...
View ArticleUS book sales up almost 25%
Overall, April book sales in the USA were up 24.8 percent compared to April last year with significant gains in adult hardcovers (up 49 percent) and ebooks (up 127.4 percent). All book sales for the...
View ArticleNobel Prize winner, Jose Saramago, dies aged 87
Jose Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation and a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, has died at his home in...
View ArticleNobel Prize winner, Jose Saramago, dies aged 87
Jose Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation and a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, has died at his home in...
View ArticleeReader price war
The eBook price wars have commenced. A few hours after Barnes & Noble slashed Nook prices, Amazon has announced a special $189 price for the Amazon Kindle--coupled with free shipping....
View Article3 million iPads in 80 days
Apple have announced that the company has sold three million iPads in eighty days; and developers have created over 11,000 new apps specifically for the iPad, which join the more than 225,000 apps...
View ArticleBest year yet for BN.com
Barnes & Noble.com have had their best year ever (fiscal year ended May 1) Sales at B&N.com rose 24% in the year, to $573 million and the company projected that B&N.com could hit sales of...
View ArticleHarper Lee's 3rd interview in 50 years
Harper Lee grants 3rd interview in 50 years. It's an interesting article that runs over 2000 words, even though the only words from her are "Thank you so much ...You are most kind... Were just going...
View ArticleBN stock falls sharply, Waterstones profits slump 70%
Barnes and Noble's stock fell sharply yesterday, down over 19% - the largest one-day drop in the bookseller's shares since November 2001, and it's lowest stock price since 2008. The sell off followed...
View ArticleW. S. Merwin named US Poet Laureate
W. S. Merwin has been named the next Poet Laureate of the USA. At 82, Mr. Merwin is an undisputed master, having written more than 30 books of poetry, translation and prose over the course of six...
View ArticleBeryl Bainbridge dies, aged 75
Beryl Bainbridge, one of the grandes dames of the UK's literary scene, died yesterday. Bainbridge was a prolific writer whose short, dark comic novels which invariably included a streak of tragedy -...
View ArticleStieg Larsson's 4th manuscript clouded in mystery
The ongoing legal dispute between Stieg Larsson's family and partner Eva Gabrielsson complicates the likelihood of the unfinished 4th Millenium novel from being published anytime soon, but some details...
View ArticleB&N on the Hot Seat
In court testimony Friday, the second day of trial in the suit by Ron Burkle's Yucaipa Companies against Barnes & Noble over B&N's "poison pill" provision, B&N chairman Len Riggio testified...
View ArticleNew Jersey Library Funding Cuts
New Jersey has slashed its library support by 43 percent, but, though shocking, it's still a victory for library supporters, who staved off a proposed 74 percent reduction. As a result, libraries will...
View ArticlePennsylvania Support for Libraries Drops 8.4% More
Pennsylvania's libraries are bracing for an additional 8.4 percent cut in state aid following a massive 27.9 percent decrease in 2009.
View ArticleCoalition Challenges New Massachusetts Internet Law
A coalition of organizations, including publishers and booksellers, filed suit on Tuesday to block a Massachusetts law that would ban certain works from the Internet deemed to be harmful to minors.
View ArticleAmazon selling 180 Kindle books for every 100 hardcovers
According to its press release yesterday, Amazon claims to be selling 180 Kindle books for every 100 hardcovers; and to have sold three times as many Kindle books in the first half of 2010 compared to...
View ArticleLawyers open cache of unpublished Kafka manuscripts
Four desposit boxes were prised open in a Zurich bank on Monday. Inside were manuscripts, drawings and letters from Franz Kafka that had been locked away for more than 50 years. But the expectant Kafka...
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