NBC News has now entered the scramble, becoming the latest entrant in the e-publishing universe. The news organization is launching NBC Publishing, which will focus on turning out enhanced e-books using NBC’s current video and archival footage.
“We have over one million hours of archival video content going back to the ’20s and a really low cost structure to edit it and put it together,” Michael Fabiano, general manager of NBC Publishing, told Digital Book World.
Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have assets totalling between $2.8 million and $11.8 million, according to federal disclosure forms released today.
The President’s assets were mainly in U.S. Treasury obligations, shown to be between $1 million and $5 million in U.S. Treasury bills and between $1 million and $5 million in Treasury notes.
But it also showed that he earns millions in royalties from his books Dreams From My Father and Audacity Of Hope.
Handler is a stealth celebrity. From her late-night perch as the host of Chelsea Lately, on the E! cable network, she has built a sizable fan base for her brand of raunchy insult comedy. But her string of best-selling books — titles include My Horizontal Life and Are You There, Vodka? Its Me, Chelsea — have sold so well that her publishing company has given Handler her own imprint. Its first book, Lies that Chelsea Handler Told Me, has just been released.
Handler seems surprised at her own success. Not so long ago, she says, she was doing standup at Starbucks. Now, she regularly hosts celebrities like Will Ferrell and Jennifer Aniston on her talk show. Shes known for quick comebacks in conversations with stars like the pop singer Rihanna, recently on the receiving end of a bawdy come-on when she appeared on Chelsea Lately.
If European regulators do not like the agency model, it is hard to imagine that they could live with the proposed French law. In addition to allowing publishers to set retail prices, it would apply to any digital retailer operating in France, even Web sites based elsewhere in Europe. That, according to some publishing executives, sounds like a violation of E.U. e-commerce rules, which are intended to encourage cross-border business.
Working out these seeming contradictions could take years. In the meantime, the European e-book market may continue to lag behind.
Publisher’s Weekly is reporting preliminary estimates from the Association of American Publishers that e-book sales from 16 reporting companies jumped 115.8% this January, totaling $69.9 million in the U.S.
And it’s bad news for paperback book publishers. Paperbacks were down 30.9% from the reporting companies, falling to $39.0 million, $30 million below the sales of e-books. Hardcover sales fell 11.3% in January.
The PC World and Curry‘s electronic and computer stores are selling Amazon’s Kindle eReader devices.
The stores are selling the wi-fi edition for only €149 with the 3g edition carrying a higher price of €199.
The wi-fi edition is proving so popular that the Dublin stores have sold out of the product already and the closest available unit was a Cork branch of Curry’s.
The popularity of the wi-fi version of the product has caught the retailers by surprise and they are waiting for more stock from Amazon according to a customer service representative at the chain.
In comparison the 3G edition was available in several Dublin stores.
Amazon introduced the first Kindle in 2006 and this year announced that the most recent generation was the bestselling product in the company’s history, outselling even Harry Potter.
Barnes & Noble bookstores in the US introduced their Nook device in 2009 and in 2010 launched NookColour edition which that chain said was one of the key reasons why their Christmas trading was so strong.
Prairie Schooner, the oldest continuously publishing academic literary journal in the United States is seeking submissions for a special issue featuring the work of contemporary Irish writers, including both poetry and short fiction.
Prairie Schooner is the national literary magazine based at the University of Nebraska and is published quarterly with the support of the English Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Nebraska Press.
Submissions can be sent by email attachment to sbehrendt1@unl.edu or by post to Stephen C. Behrendt, Interim Senior Editor, Prairie Schooner; Department of English; University of Nebraska; Lincoln, NE 68588-0333; USA. All submissions must be in hand by 1 May 2011, so that the issue can appear in early 2012.
Borders executives told publishers that they were close to securing refinancing from GE Capital and other lenders, these people said, speaking only on condition of anonymity, and that the company intended to reduce costs, improve liquidity and expand marketing efforts, as well as sell some assets.Thursday’s talks were the latest between Borders and major book publishers that began in late December, when Borders abruptly told some publishers and distributors that it would delay payments. The company had a $74.4 million loss in its third quarter.
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