E-Books Outsell Hardcover For the First Time

e-books outsell hardcover for the first time
USA TODAY
More evidence the world is turning digital: Publishers are reporting that in 2011, e-book versions of novels aimed at adults outsold hardcovers for the first time. But print isn't dead. Overall, all print formats -- including hardcovers and paperbacks -- accounted ...

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E-books Are Booming, and Still Sort of Small
All Things Digital
Net publisher revenue for trade books increased 0.5 percent, to $13.97 billion, with e-booksaccounting for $2.1 billion of that. Meanwhile ... That's what led the publishers to push for “agency” pricing, where they could set the sale price for their books — and presumably, lessen Amazon's dominance in the e-book market, by creating equal footing for all digital retailers. And that's what's led to ... Tagged with: Amazon, antitrust, Apple, BookStats, DOJ, ebook, Kindle ...Kindle Fire, A Grown-Up E-Reader With Tablet Spark ...

Chen Guangcheng, Chinese Activist, Gets Book Deal To Publish Memoir
Huffington Post
"This is an opportunity for me to share with the world the true conditions in China, especially in the vast stretches of rural China," Chen said in a statement from his publisher Times Books, a division of Macmillan. Chen, 40, was born with a high fever that left him blind in ... Keep in mind that the articles here are penned by young authors, so please keep criticism respectful, and help us to keep this a safe and supportive place for writers of all ages to contribute. Post Comment Preview Comment. To reply to a Comment: ...

E-books sales soar in 2011
Boston.com
Sales of e-books more than doubled from 2010 to 2011, according to a survey of nearly 2000 publishers released Wednesday. E-books jumped from 6 percent of the market to 15 percent and e-revenue for new adult fiction is now higher than the revenue for ...

Survey Shows Growing Strength of E-Books
New York Times (blog)
“I would never dare to call an industry healthy, but it certainly seems to be robust,” said Dominique Raccah, the publisher of Sourcebooks and co-chairwoman of the Book Industry Study Group, adding that unit sales of books had increased. “We, as an industry, ...

US Book Sales Declined in 2011 Despite Rise in E-Books
Businessweek
The U.S. book market declined 2.5 percent in 2011 as sales of e-books, which are lower priced than printed works, more than doubled within the category that includes fiction and nonfiction. Publishers generated $27.2 billion in book sales, down from $27.9 ...

Schumer urges Justice Department to drop Apple e-books suit
The Hill (blog)
Under agency pricing, the publishers, not bookstores, set the retail price of e-books. But Schumer argued that agency pricing helped to free the e-book market from Amazon's dominance. He noted that under the old model, Amazon controlled 90 percent of the ...

What You Need to Read: The Mitt Romney Summer Book List
ABC News
Books on the former Massachusetts governor can be found with topics ranging from his Mormon faith to policy. Since there's nothing on TV but summer reruns and negative campaign ads, here are some books on Mitt to get to know the candidate better.

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Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng to publish memoir
Chicago Tribune
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, a blind dissident who left his country after seeking refuge in the U.S. Embassy, will publish a memoir next year, his publishersaid on Tuesday. In April, Chen made headlines worldwide when, ... "This is an opportunity for me to share with the world the true conditions in China, especially in the vast stretches of rural China," Chen said in a statement from his publisher Times Books, a division of Macmillan. Chen, 40, was born with a high fever that left him ...

Letter: 'Fifty Shades of Bad'
Baltimore Sun
As a person who reads and is involved in a wonderful book club, I had to find out what all the fuss was about. I can say, pretty definitively, that this is the worst book I have ever forced myself to read/skim. I have found that a bad book in a literary sense has ...

Ebooks pass print in adult fiction for first time
New York Post
While ebooks have not yet surpassed print in total adult trade book sales, they did rule over all the other subcategories including hardcover fiction as well as the lower-priced mass market fiction and the higher-priced quality fiction known as trade ... When other aspects of the trade category are included, such as titles targeted at children and young adults, ebook growth is less spectacular — at just 15 percent of revenue and units sold. The trade category is the term forbooks aimed at general interest consumers.

Memo to DOJ: Drop the Apple E-Books Suit
Wall Street Journal
The e-books marketplace provides a perfect example of the challenges traditional industries face in adapting to the Internet economy. Amazon took an early lead in e-book sales, capturing 90% of the retail market. Because of its large product catalog, Amazon ...

Wall Street Journal

Michael Morse read 'Fifty Shades of Grey'
Washington Post (blog)
The Nats slugger told me the last book he read was “Fifty Shades of Grey.” After mentioning thebook — “this book that all the girls are reading” — he clarified that it was read to him by his fiancée, Jessica. Morse admitted that some of racier language shocked ...

Book Sales Fell 2.5% in 2011
Publishers Weekly
The increase in the sale of e-books was the major story in 2011. In the trade segment, sales ofe-books rose to $2.07 billion from $869 million as units increased 210% to 388 million. With the growth in e-book sales offsetting declines in print, total sales in the ...

Bush Institute launches book on economic growth
Boston.com
DALLAS (AP) — Former President George W. Bush said he wants his institute, which Tuesday released a book featuring experts weighing in on ways for the U.S. to jumpstart the economy toward 4 percent gross domestic product growth, to be an ...

Hong Kong Book Fair Opens with Record Exhibitor Participation
MarketWatch (press release)
Hong Kong, Jul 18, 2012 (ACN Newswire via COMTEX) -- More than 530 exhibitors from 23 countries and regions, a new exhibitor record, are taking part in the 23rd edition of the HKTDC Hong Kong Book Fair, which opened today and continues through 24 July, ... adapted for film and nominated for the Man Asian Literary Prize. Author of the Year. Professor Leung Ping Kwan, this year's Book Fair "Author of the Year," will lead three sessions during the fair. A variety of his personal items, including books, photographs, ...

Snubbing the Book Snobs
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Of course, as others have lamented before me, electronic reading devices have made it much harder to see—and thus make snap judgments of—other people's literary taste. The New York City ... People usually have concrete, idiosyncratic and often touching reasons for choosing thebooks they do; more than almost any other consumer good, there's a story behind every bookchoice. In "Pure Pleasure: A ... She is the author of two books, "Tainted Truth" and "The Rich and How They Got That Way." She is a graduate ...

Author of 'Encyclopedia Brown' mystery series dies at age 87
The Detroit News
Donald J. Sobol, author of the popular "Encyclopedia Brown" series of children's mysteries, has died. He was 87. ... The Encyclopedia Brown books also featured Brown's friend and detective partner, the tough and athletic Sally Kimball. John Sobol said ... Sobol's work never brought him the financial success of blockbusters like the "Harry Potter," series, his son said, but his father loved hearing from countless librarians and parents about children who hated to read until they picked up an Encyclopedia Brown book.

Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng has book deal, memoir coming out ...
Washington Post
NEW YORK — Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng (chehn gwahng-chung) will have a memoir coming out next year. Henry Holt and Co. imprint Times Books announced Tuesday that Chen's book is scheduled for the fall of 2013. The book is untitled.

"Fifty Shades of Grey" has Flint women seeking romance portrayed in book
The Flint Journal - MLive.com
Fifty Shades.JPG FILE- This file combo made of book cover images provided by Vintage Books shows the "Fifty Shades of Grey" trilogy by best-selling author E L James. (AP Photo/Vintage Books, File). FLINT, MI--According to a release from a popular dating ...

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Iranian-American author blames hackers for offensive tweet about Peter ...
Montreal Gazette
OTTAWA — An offensive tweet from the Twitter account of a prominent Iranian-American authortargets Defence Minister Peter MacKay's Iranian-born wife, who is one of Canada's leading human rights activists challenging the Islamic regime in Tehran.

Bestselling Enneagram Author Chooses IEA's New Publishing Arm for her Latest...
San Francisco Chronicle
The International Enneagram Association (“IEA”) is pleased to announce the launch of its expansion into book publishing with “The Enneagram of Death” by bestselling author Elizabeth Wagele. The book contains helpful ... In her latest work, Elizabeth Wagele, respected author of “The Enneagram Made Easy” and numerous other books, has drawn together many moving accounts from people of each Enneagram type on facing their own mortality or struggling with the loss of loved ones. While the topic is a sober one, ...

San Francisco Chronicle

The First Shades of Grey: 10 Groundbreaking Erotic Reads
Huffington Post
And as an ebook publisher who is lucky enough to publish many of these books digitally, I mention if they are available to be read as ebooks from Open Road or from other publishers. A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter This beautiful and haunting book ...

Ebook sales way up in 2011; overall trade book sales roughly flat
paidContent.org
Print books still dominate, but ebooks made up 15 percent of all trade book sales in 2011. That's one finding from BookStats 2012, a new report from the Association of American Publishers and Book Industry Study Group. In addition, digital is now the most ...

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Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng to publish memoir
Los Angeles Times
Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng will publish a memoir in 2013 with Henry Holt & Co., the Associated Press reported Tuesday. In April, Chen made a dramatic escape from house arrest by scaling a wall and making his way from rural Dongshigu to ...

Half of Bedtime Stories Now Read on E-Books
Smartmoney.com (blog)
Though picture books didn't translate well to the black-and-white screens of the original e-readers, beloved titles like “The Cat in the Hat” now have their own iPad apps. Indeed, publishing revenue in the juvenile e-book category, which tracks books for ...

The end of ebook development | TeleRead: News and views on e ...
By Paul Biba
Connect. TeleRead - News and views on ebooks, libraries, publishing and related topics. HOME| · AROUND THE WORLD| · EREADERS| · LIBRARY| · COPYRIGHT| ... I should be able to buy a book from any retailer, have it automatically download to any ereader (app or device), have that ereader use any bookmarking/note service I want, and have that service sync my notes on to Simplenote or Dropbox. What we have in the ebook world is worse than the days of 'best in IE'. It's crazy ...
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Daily Kos: George W. Bush Institute publishes book on how to fix the ...
By rss@dailykos.com (Hunter)
The George W. Bush Institute is launching its first book, which features experts weighing in on ways for the U.S. to jumpstart the economy toward 4 percent gross domestic product growth. I always expected George W. Bush's name would ...
Daily Kos

What does it cost to publish a paywalled paper with anyone ...
By Mike Taylor
A couple of weeks ago we tried to work out what it costs the global academic community when you publish a paper behind an Elsevier paywall instead of making it open access. The tentative conclusion was that it's somewhere between £3112 ...
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Gigantic aMAZEme Book Maze in London Will Be Made from ...
By Mark Boyer
Want to help build an enormous maze that's made entirely from books? On July 26th, Brazilian artists Marcos Saboya and Gualter Pupo will begin constructing an enourmouse book maze in the Clore Ballroom at London's Southbank Centre.
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eBook Piracy | Dystel & Goderich Literary Management
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Authors and readers alike have strong opinions about piracy, DRM (a special kind of coding that is added to some eBooks so you can't do things like copy and paste or print out an entireeBook), and how to stop eBooks from being stolen. ... Eye on Flux; GalleyCat; Gawker; Janet Reid, Literary Agent; Judge a Book By Its Cover; Kirkus; Maud Newton; Media Bistro; Mobile Read; Nathan Bransford – Literary Agent; New York Observer; New York Times Book Review; NPR's Books page ...
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The 'Having It All' Author Is Trying to Fit It All into a New Book
By Doug Barry
The book, which has yet to be conferred a proper title, will hit shelves in 2014, the same year, coincidentally, that the phrase "hit shelves" will become a quaint anachronism from an age in which people could smell the books they read and ...
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Venn Diagram: Read The Book Or See The Movie? - The Frisky
By Amelia McDonell-Parry
Of the latter, many of these films don't do justice to the original material, but a special, rare few actually improve upon the book and the story translates better to the screen. (There is a whole other category of books that were terrible and should ...
The Frisky

AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Larissa Ione - Book Chick City
By Carolyn
I am loving your Lords of Deliverance. How many books do you see in the series? Technically, four. But Reaver's book follows and will be a bit of a blend between the LOD and Demonica series.
Book Chick City

What's Happening With My Publisher Contract? | Rachelle Gardner
By Rachelle Gardner
Authors are right to convey their anxieties to their agent. But in most ... We're always shooting for the win-win between author and publisher; after all, we want to continue selling books to these publishers so we want them to be successful and we want our relationships with them to be positive. We're ... Not that I'm trying to be self-serving, but I believe it's becoming more necessary than ever to have an agent if you want to publish with the majors. ... 2012 Rachelle Gardner,Literary Agent ...
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eBooks - Books (World Scientific)
About Us · Publish with Us · Advanced Search. Search Citation DOI / ISSN / ISBN. All Content, All Journals, All Books. Bookmark and Share · Home >; Books ...
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Kate Moss Book To Launch - Edited By Jefferson Hack (Vogue.com ...
KATE MOSS is the subject of a new book, launching in November, edited by ex- boyfriend and father to her daughter Jefferson Hack.
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Jefferson Hack Edited Kate: The Kate Moss Book -- The Cut
Jefferson Hack Edited Kate: The Kate Moss Book. By Hilary Moss. The model's ex -boyfriend and father of their daughter Lila, along with casting director Jess ...
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New book on the Behance Network
Up coming book to be published by Timber Press in 2013. This book is a journey through the design process of green roofs and roof gardens with examples ... Through the author's words and gorgeous photography this book provides sound , ... It also transcends previous green roofbooks by offering chapters of thoughtful ...
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Book Guide - AskMen
Here's a wide range of 10 new-ish books, e-books and Kindle Singles that we ... age with this anthology of stories specifically tailored to men -- in e-book form.
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Horse ebooks (Horse_ebooks) on Twitter
Add a location to your Tweets. When you tweet with a location, Twitter stores that location. You can switch location on/off before each Tweet and always have the ...
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Robin Covington shares the fun of making a book trailer
USA TODAY
Robin: As a debut author I have been cautioned by many experienced authors that the promo and work that come with launching a book is hard. Some even cringe and hide when you mention the word. They were not wrong. Promo is hard, time-consuming, exhausting and sometimes daunting¬ — I never thought I'd be tired of talking about my books or my writing process. But it is also a ton of fun. From the moment you see your book pop up at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, the thrill never dissipates. Hearing from ...

Barnes and Noble releases Nook for Web
Good E-Reader (blog)
Barnes and Noble unleashed a new eBook sampling program today, called Nook for Web. It allows you to read excerpts of books before you buy them in any internet browser on MAC or PC. There is no sign-in required and you don't even have to register with ...

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