$20 e-Reader targeted at developing world and NGOs
The $20 Humane Reader is designed to provide low-cost computing solutions to places without internet access. The unit can store up to 500 books so they can be read on a TV screen. According to Humane...
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The Wylie literary agency are causing a stir in the publishing industry following their announcement of a two year agreement to sell ebooks only through Amazon. The works in question are apparently...
View ArticlePossible Sale of B&N
Barnes & Noble's board of directors plans to evaluate strategic alternatives, including a possible sale of the company, to increase stockholder value, the company announced yesterday. The board's...
View ArticleCounty takeover looks set to save Camden, NJ libraries
Camden's libraries, which received national attention last week when it appeared that budget cuts would force them out of business permanently, are to be saved.Camden City Council is expected to...
View ArticleObama Signs 'Libel Tourism' Law
Culminating a years-long lobbying campaign organized by the Association of American Publishers, President Obama this week signed the Speech Act, a law that prohibits federal courts from recognizing or...
View ArticleLiterary agent Elaine Koster dies
Elaine Koster, the literary agent behind Khaled Hosseini and one time publisher of Stephen King, died on Tuesday in New York aged 69. In a statement Hosseini said: "I am deeply saddened by Elaine's...
View ArticleProject Gutenberg on quest to digitize 1 billion books
Shortly after Google's announcement that they have calculated that there are about 130 million books in the world, comes Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart's plan for one billion ebooks. To quote...
View ArticleAre printed books an endangered species? Not if you look at the 'paperless...
With pundits predicting the end of printed books within the decade, The Christian Science Monitor concludes that, if the much vaunted 'paperless office' is anything to go by, it's going to take more...
View ArticleBertelsmann and Holtzbrinck joint venture approved by EC
The European Commission has cleared the creation of a joint-venture by German media companies Bertelsmann and Holtzbrinck to operate an online distribution platform to sell e-books.
View ArticleLarsson's ex-partner hits out at renaming of trilogy
Stieg Larsson would not have approved of the renaming of the opening book to his Millennium trilogy from "Men Who Hate Women" to "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", the late author's partner has claimed...
View ArticlePublishers Weekly accepting paid reviews
Publishers Weekly, one of the USA's oldest publishing industry magazines, today announced that they are accepting registrations from self-published authors who want to appear in its December...
View ArticlePossibility of combined ALA and BEA book shows from 2012
Reed Exhibitions, parent company of BookExpo America, is in discussion with the American Library Association (ALA) about taking over the organization's two main meetings--the June annual convention and...
View ArticleBooker shortlist announced
The shortlist for the Man Booker Prize has been announced: The Long Song by Andrea Levy Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey Room by Emma Donoghue C by Tom McCarthy The Finkler Question by...
View ArticleWall Street Journal plans new book section
At a time when book coverage is gradually disappearing from newspapers nationwide, Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal plans to launch a weekly book review within the next few weeks as a pull out...
View ArticleArmy negotiating to buy & destroy first print run of memoir
Defense Department officials are negotiating to buy and destroy all 10,000 copies of the first printing of Operation Dark Heart, an Afghan war memoir they say contains intelligence secrets... the only...
View ArticleThomas Guinzburg, Paris Review co-founder, dies at 84
Thomas Guinzburg, an editor and publisher who helped create The Paris Review, the enduring lion of American literary magazines, and who later became president of Viking Press, the publishing house...
View ArticleOprah picks "Freedom"
Yet to be confirmed but the word on the street is that Oprah's next book club pick is Jonathan Franzen's Freedom..
View ArticleLA Times Festival of Books to move closer to downtown
The Los Angeles Times announced Wednesday that it is moving the location of its Festival of Books from UCLA to the campus of USC in 2011. The new location near the heart of downtown is anticipated to...
View ArticleE-reader users buy, read more books
A Harris Interactive poll finds that people with e-book devices are not only reading more than other Americans (which is unsurprising as one would expect early adopters to be among the heavier...
View ArticleFoyles outperforms market with profit up 500%
Independent UK bookseller Foyles has increased its operating profit five-fold in the last year (to 30th June) to just under half a million pounds, bucking the trend in the overall market. CEO Sam...
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