USA TODAY
By Hillel Italie, AP NEW YORK – Around 20 percent of adults have read an e-booksince last year, according to an extensive new study, and the percentage of those owning an e-reader nearly doubled over the holidays. The line of Amazon Kindle products, ...
USA TODAY
E-Book Settlement Talks Heat Up
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Joe Palazzolo The WSJ's Thomas Catan and Jeffrey Trachtenberg report that settlement talks to resolve US and European price-fixing probes into ebooks are ramping up. Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins and Hachette Book Group are inclined to settle.
E-book revolution: We're reading more than ever
Christian Science Monitor
By Husna Haq / April 5, 2012 Readers of e-books read an average of 10 booksmore per year than readers of print books, according to a new study by the Pew Internet Project. If you read an e-book in the past year – or suspected your holiday gift of an ...
Christian Science Monitor
Apple Holds Out as E-Book Pricing Settlement Nears
Wall Street Journal
What it means for consumers: If e-book sellers can set their own prices, they may cut some prices to gain market share. Certain e-books could get cheaper. What it means for publishers: New contracts with sellers of e-books, notably Amazon, ...
Wall Street Journal
eReaders, eBooks More Popular Than Ever, Survey Finds
Huffington Post
The report showed that as of February 2012, 21% of Americans had read an e-book, and that owners of e-readers read an average of nine books a year more than people without the devices (24 vs 16). The surveys of 2986 respondents, carried out in English ...
Some e-book publishers begin settlement talks; Apple holding out
Ars Technica
Apple and five publishers came under fire from the European Commission in December for allegedly colluding to fix the prices of e-books in an attempt to cripple Amazon's then-popular $9.99 e-book model. The EU investigation was quickly followed by one ...
Report: E-Reading Soars, Shift from Print to E-Books Continues
PCWorld (blog)
By Matt Peckham, PCWorld Apr 5, 2012 8:25 AM Over one-fifth of Americans have read an e-book, ebook ownership is way up after the 2011 holiday shopping season, and one-third of people who read e-books now say they spend more time reading in general, ...
Survey finds e-readers are spurring consumers of books in all formats
Washington Post
The portion of e-book readers among all American adults has increased to 21 percent from 17 percent between December and February, due in large part to a boom in tablet and e-readersales this past holiday season. All those devices are turning some ...
If you have an e-reader, you read more books
New York Daily News (blog)
BY Alexander Nazaryan The physical book may be in trouble, but the digital book is thriving, says a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. (Image: Mary Atlaffer for AP) In its survey of some 3000 American adults over the age of 16, ...
Suppose Justice Settles With Apple and Publishers. Then What?
Wired News
They really don't want e-book pricing to be driven by Amazon. But they stand to gain nothing by litigating an antitrust case with the US Department of Justice. Even if they win, it'll burn through cash and will earn them nothing but bad press.
Waterfront Press eBooks Powered by Vook Will Help Shift the Publishing Landscape
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Mega literary agency Waterside Productions Inc., in collaboration with Vook and its new eBookcreation, has entered a partnership to create Waterfront Press as the primary publishing platform for Waterside Productions-represented authors to publish and ...
Apple finally meets its match (Hint: It's called the DOJ)
CNET
A settlement is said to be near on an e-book pricing investigation, and any deal will force Apple to bend. by Charles Cooper April 4, 2012 6:28 PM PDT Follow @coopeydoop Wouldn't it be ironic if Apple got tripped up by something so seemingly ...
New book contends OJ's innocence
Fox News
But a new book says Simpson is innocent of those murders. Joining us now from Los Angeles private investigator William Dear, the author of the book, "OJ Is Innocent And I Can Prove It." So Mr. Dear, you say you have the murder weapon, correct?
DOJ Said Near E-Book Pricing Settlement With Publishers
BusinessWeek
By Andy Fixmer and Sara Forden on April 05, 2012 The US Department of Justice is close to a settlement with three of the world's biggest publishers on e-book price contracts with Apple Inc. (AAPL) (AAPL), said three people with knowledge of the ...
E-book readers read offline and on: study
Chicago Sun-Times
BY SANDRA GUY Business Reporter sguy@suntimes.com April 4, 2012 9:10PM One in five American adults report reading an e-book in the past year, and those who read e-booksdevoured more books than those who read the old-fashioned way (24 versus 15 on ...
One-fifth of Americans read e-book in past year
msnbc.com
Those who read e-books say they read more books than those who don't have digital devices: "The average reader of e-books says she has read 24 books (the mean number) in the past 12 months, compared with an average of 15 books by a non-e-book consumer.
msnbc.com
EBook Popularity, Readership Soars as Industry Faces Government Scrutiny
DailyTech
New surveys by the Pew Research Center found that US citizens are reading electronic books now more than ever, with one in five American adults reading at least one e-book per year. Lee Rainie, leader of the Pew Internet Project, conducted one survey ...
DailyTech
Book Talk: Wyoming author CJ Box returns with "Force of Nature"
Reuters
"It took four years after I finished it for a publisher to want to publish it, and it was Penguin Putnam, and when they bought it, they offered to give me a contract for two other books with Joe Pickett. So that's how it got started.
Amazon.com Introduces eBooks Kindle en Espanol, a Kindle Store with the ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SEATTLE, Apr 05, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- (NASDAQ:AMZN) -- Amazon.com, Inc. today announced a new Spanish-language eBook store within the Amazon.com Kindle Store, “eBooksKindle en Espanol” ( www.amazon.com/tiendakindle ), along with additional features ...
Amazon launches Kindle store for Spanish speakers
USA TODAY
By Anna Heim, The Next Web Amazon is introducing a new Spanish-languageeBook store within the Amazon.com Kindle Store, the company announced today. Called 'eBooks Kindle en Español', it is targeted at Spanish speakers in the US Amazon's 'eBooks Kindle ...
USA TODAY
E-books grow readership in the US
Orlando Sentinel (blog)
In fact, the report released Tuesday by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project shows that readers of e-books read more books than those who prefer the printed book. "The rise of e-books in American culture is part of a larger story ...
One-fifth of US adults read e-books as market booms - survey
Reuters
In a sweeping survey of e-books' impact on reading habits, the Pew report said that four times more US readers, or 15 percent, were reading e-books on a typical day now compared with less than two years ago. But when it comes to reading in bed, ...
Apple, two publishers hold out against settlement: report
Reuters
Apple and some of the world's biggest book publishers are suspected of colluding to push up e-book prices and are under investigation by the US Justice Department and the European Commission. Reuters reported on March 30 that the US Justice Department ...
Report: E-books encouraging reading in America
Gant Daily
New research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project shows that about one-fifth of US adults have read an e-book in the past year. If the data is expanded to include Americans over the age of 16 who have used an e-reading device or app to read ...
Pew study: E-readers have caught on quickly
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Jeff Gelles More than one in five Americans now say they have read a book electronically in the last year. Above (clockwise from top) are an Apple iPad, Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook and an Amazon Kindle. CHARLES FOX / Staff Photographer Here's ...
Sheila Moeschen: Book Review: Girl Walks Into a Bar or What ...
By Sheila Moeschen
Dratch's book is definitely funny, but it is her courage to speak openly about her struggle with dating, romance and the Holy Grail of feminine culture -- motherhood -- that makes this work as unconventional as her path to both television stardom ...
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Book Review: London 2012 Sustainable Design, Delivering a ...
By Bonnie Alter
This book has to be the definitive guide to sustainability at London's 2012 Olympic Games. ... If you are at all interested in sustainability at London's 2012 Olympics then this is the book, or should that be bible, for you. Hattie Hartman, an ...
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Google Play Books Updated – Brings Revamped UI With Much ...
By Chris Chavez
For all you e-reading bookworms out there, you may care to know that Google has updated their Play Books (Google Books) application with a fresh coat of.
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How To Make a Book Into an Incognito Stash Box
By Andrew Tarantola
How To Make a Book Into an Incognito Stash Box What's the one thing you never hear from people who have just been burgled? "Those rotten sons of bitches stole all my books." Nobody's going to lift your Encyclopaedia Britannicas when ...
Gizmodo
Barnes & Noble allows Amazon-published children's books back ...
By Chris Meadows
Remember when Barnes & Noble proclaimed it would not carry any books offered by Amazon publishers (in stores—if people wanted to order them from BN.com, they would be happy to ship them) if B&N would not be able to carry the e-book ...
TeleRead: News and views on e-books,...
Does 'Porgy' Have a New Book? Producers and Tony Panel Have ...
By By PATRICK HEALY
Did the Broadway producers of “The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess” want the musical's book – which was the subject of a rare public debate last year about adaptation – to be eligible for a Tony Award for best book of a musical this spring?
ArtsBeat
Graphicly shutters iOS & Android comic book apps to focus on self ...
By Tom Cheredar
Graphicly, a startup best known for its digital comic book platform, is making some big changes to its overall business strategy. How big? Well for starters, the company is shutting down its digital comic book marketplace apps today, yanking its ...
VentureBeat
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In Scott's latest book, he explains all the latest updates and features to Lightroom 4 in his easy-going, conversational style, just like if you were sitting down with him one-on-one. Reserve your copy from Amazon or Barnes and Noble today!
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Rise in E-Book Readership Is Good News for Reading Over All ...
By Jennifer Howard
Rise in E-Book Readership Is Good News for Reading Over All, Report Says. April 4, 2012, 10:01 pm. By Jennifer Howard. More Americans are reading e-books than ever before, on more kinds of devices, a new report from the Pew Research ...
Wired Campus
Graphicly Shutters Comic Apps In Favor of eBooks - Comic Book ...
Comic Book Resources - Graphicly Shutters Comic Apps In Favor of eBooks - Digital comics platform Graphicly announced today that it has closed its phone, desktop and tablet apps to users and publishers in favor of promoting projects both ... focus entirely from building and maintaining its own platform for selling comics to the consumer to distributing a variety of visually-based books and comics to eBook platforms like Apple's iBooks, Amazon's Kindle and the Barnes & Noble Nook.
Comic Book News
A Tiny Truce Between Barnes & Noble and Amazon | The Passive ...
Writers, Writing, Publishing, Disruptive Innovation and the Universe ... The Authors Guild has brokered a one-time truce in Barnes & Noble's battle with ... According to the letter, more than 250 authors and 150 illustrators have been affected by ...
www.thepassivevoice.com/.../a-tiny-truce-between-barnes-nob...
Your Company, Your Product, Your Book
TechNewsWorld
I recently learned this as a number of CEOs have contacted me to discuss writing books for them and their companies. Apparently, as many executives explore this new book opportunity, they realize they need a co-author to help them with the process of ...
LaPlace author writes latest book for children
NOLA.com (blog)
By Judy Creekmore, Contributing writer Keeshler La'Chaunt Pittman of LaPlace began journaling at an early age. She published a book of poetry in her 20s, and since then has written four other books. One is an autobiography.
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