If there is a crime here, it is that HarperCollins is guilty of attempted infanticide by their move to strangle ebook library lending in its cradle. Granted, it is the only publisher to ask for such restrictions but I’m certain the other ones are watching the outcome to this controversy very closely. Otherwise, this whole [...]
Entries Tagged as 'business'
The Publisher of Tolkien Has Taken a Business Lesson from Sauron
February 27th, 2011 · No Comments · opinion
Kno getting out of the tablet business?
February 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware rumors, opinion
There’s a rumor going around today that Kno, makers of a dual screen educational tablet, is planning to get out of the tablet business and focus solely on software. No, wait. I was wrong. They’ve never actually shipped tablets so I don’t think they’re really in the tablet business. But the rumor is going around, [...]
Amazon are in the Book Banning Business
December 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Amazon, ebookstore news
This just got forwarded to me over Twitter: On December 9, 2010, I was contacted by CreateSpace (Amazon’s Print on Demand service) who publishes my print books. They informed me that my title, Back to the Garden, had been removed for violating their “content guidelines.” When I consulted their guidelines I found them so vague [...]
Three misperceptions about the ebook business
October 30th, 2010 · 7 Comments · opinion
by Chris Walters of Booksprung You can pretty much always find outspoken, passionate diatribes about ebooks online. I’ve written several myself, but in my defense I had to, or else the Ebook Bloggers Board would have flogged me and taken away my WordPress dashboard. Even setting aside my own involvement, I’ve always enjoyed this sort [...]
Tags:business·ebook·misperceptions
Virginia State U. Business School came to their senses on digital textbooks
August 25th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
The VSU School of Business have taken what i’d call the next logical step in textbooks. They’ve signed a volume purchase contract with Flat World Knowledge. Here’s the thing. Given that 1 student registered for a class = 1 textbook needed (more or less), why not build the textbook cost into the class fees? Yes, [...]
Tags:business·digital·school·senses·state·textbooks·virginia
E-reads’ new business plan – corporate self immolation
August 19th, 2010 · 3 Comments · ebookstore news
I’ve just finished reading the posts of Jeffrey Carver, a SF author I know. He’s reporting that the $9 list price that E-reads set for his digital backlist was not a mistake. No, $9 is now E-reads‘ standard price. Someone must have gone bugshit wacko. There’s no reasonable explanation for this. I don’t know about [...]
ORGCon: ACTA – a shady business (video)
August 9th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows, Open Rights Group, video
Here’s one more video from the Open Rights Group conference in London a couple weeks back. It’s still queuing in my browser, so I can’t give you a summary. But according to the ORGCon program this is who was on the session panel: Chaired by Becky Hogge (ORG Advisory Council) Jeremie Zimmermann (La Quadrature du Net) [...]
Brad Stone leaves NYTimes for Business Week
July 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
He just tweeted: After a great run at NYT, headed to Bloomberg BusinessWeek for a new adventure. Brad had been covering ebooks and digital publishing for the NYTimes. Most recently he wrote “Stores See Google as Ally in E-Book Market” and “In Price War, E-Readers Go Below $200.” I respect him because he does his [...]
Japan’s largest cell phone carrier to enter ebook business in FY 2010
July 8th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
The Mainichi Daily News are reporting: NTT Docomo Inc. President Ryuji Yamada said Wednesday the company will enter the electronic book business by the end of fiscal 2010 through next March 31, as Japan’s largest mobile phone carrier joins the competition in e-book business amid growing demand for digitized content.In an interview with Kyodo News, [...]
Tags:2010·business·carrier·cell·ebook·enter·fy·japan·largest·phone
Why e-books mean business
May 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I came across an interesting piece on ResearchInformation.info. The article was written by Caren Milloy, the head of projects at JISC Collections. Here is a teaser: E-books are helping turn students into researchers. The convenience of online access allows users to view e-books off campus and throughout the day and night to find information on [...]
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