Briefly Noted | Guess What? No One Knows How Big the E-Book Business Is [Update] | BNET
There are lots of numbers floating around that purport to show how big the e-book industry is. The Association of American Publishers AAP says that ebooks are the single best-selling category in U.S. publishing. Amazon AMZN says that ebooks are…
Briefly Noted | E-Readers: Amazon Kindles Enthusiasm of Library Crowd
Amazon’s Whispersync technology allows readers to make notations and bookmarks on pages. The Kindle will save these notations in borrowed books to be accessed later if they’re checked out again or purchased. The Kindle Lending Library will fit into the…
Are publishers ignoring the goldrush? Declan Burke In The Irish Times
Interesting piece by Declan Burke on ebooks and publishing. Brings to mind some of the pieces by Catherine Ryan Howard over the last few months on her success. Trend or trivial? It’s not just the royalties that will have to…
Cork University Press Signs Up To Ebook Platform
Cork University Press has signed a deal to join the University Press Contents Consortium (UPCC) an academic digital publishing and reading platform for the worldwide library community. The UPCC will be run by project MUSE, which is the leading e-journal in…
Briefly Noted | E-book piracy may have unexpected benefits for publishers
O’Leary makes the distinction between the instances of e-book piracy the number of pirated e-book files available for download and the impact of e-book piracy the actual effect on the business of publishing. For OLeary, the two are related, but…
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