Perseus Books Group is the latest to claim a better mousetrap when it comes to digital publishing for indie publishers, according to the NYT: Constellation, slated to launch Thursday, includes…

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HarperCollins, the book publishing company owned by News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is launching its books social networking site called Authonomy (finally, a great name for a relevant social network), with…

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What a buzz kill ... Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) spokesman Craig Berman tells the NYT: “Don’t believe everything you read. ... There’s a lot of rumor and speculation about the Kindle.…

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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is buying up another books-focused social network Shelfari, three weeks after it acquired AbeBooks, which holds a 40 percent stake in Shelfari’s main rival, LibraryThing. The Seattle-based…

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-- SN Digital: *Scripps’* interactive division announced Heather Keets Wright has joined the team as VP of cross-network programming. Having held various positions with magazine brands Entertainment Weekly, Essence and…

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Print services provider R.R. Donnelley (separate from directory services company R.H. Donnelley) said Q2 net earnings from continuing operations came in $145.1 million ($0.68 per diluted share) from last year’s…

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Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) has bought Canada-based online used books site AbeBooks. No financial terms were disclosed in the announcement. Interestingly, AbeBooks will continue to function as a stand-alone operation. Amazon…

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Finally, a competitive move from Sony (NYSE: SNE) worth writing about, though it has its own caveats: it is opening up Sony Reader, its e-book reading device which is a…

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Offering something for free doesn’t guarantee people will make the most of it. The latest example: eBooks distributor OverDrive says providing DRM-protected audiobooks to public libraries in the WMA format…

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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos has been famously tight lipped on anything to do with data on the Kindle. Just about the only hard stat ever given out is…

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Just before D6, Rafat and I—both Kindle users—were talking about books on our respective reading lists and how many of them, particularly new non-fiction, couldn’t be downloaded to the device. …

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The book publishing industry is not sure what to make of the Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle wireless reader. The device’s creator, Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, addressed the industry in front…

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Walt Mossberg and Jeff Bezos are talking Kindle. No details on actual unit sales or downloads but Bezos does toss a news bone—the Kindle is now responsible for 6 percent…

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Simon & Schuster Digital has made key additions and changes to its existing staff: -- Adrian Norman joins as VP-marketing and new products and former Oxygen Media CTO Steve Morgan…

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Once again, Starbucks is changing course when it comes to entertainment. The company announced today it is pulling out of direct management of the Hear Music label and instead will…

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BBC Worldwide is expanding its North American ad sales operations, allowing for selling ads across BBC.com and its related cable channels for the first time, the commercial arm of UK’s…

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Hearst Interactive, the digital media investment arm of Hearst Corp, is incubating a Kindle-like e-book reader, paidContent.org has learned, and the separate venture is called FirstPaper. The stealth startup is…

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Publisher HarperCollins plans to launch an internet-focused unit that will eschew author advances, according to a somewhat odd WSJ report. Besides eliminating advances, the currently unnamed unit won’t accept returns…

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Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN), which has brushed with monopolistic tendencies before, is doing just that, this time in the print-on-demand business, where it is asking such publishers that they will have…

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Ebooks distributor OverDrive is expanding its online catalog to include MP3 audiobooks, the company told us. Publishers who are participating in OverDrive’s audiobooks program include Random House Audio, Blackstone Audiobooks,…

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Random House will begin selling its online audiobooks without DRM protection starting next month, according to WSJ, confirming an earlier report on BoingBoing. The Bertelsmann-owned publisher’s Random House Audio division…

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As Borders’ readies its revamped online store, this week the bookseller unveiled the first of 14 new brick and mortar locations with additional digital ties. BillboardBiz reports that the new…

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-- AppleTV update launches after two week delay: Apple quietly launched its free AppleTV update this week, after having postponed the software two weeks ago. Now users have wireless access…

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New York-based First30Days, a sort of self-help site focused on guiding its readers through change, today launched its beta version and closed a first round funding. The round of $5…

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This is not the first time both book publishing heavyweights have pushed online sampling...old wine in a new bottle, if you ask me. -- Random House: This experiment is more…

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