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In Latest Bid To Push Ebooks, Sony Partners With Borders On E-Commerce Store - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Thu 04 Oct 2007 01:06 PM PST

For the past few years, Sony (NYSE: SNE) and others have been trying get mass adoption of ebooks. And with each effort, the question goes “is the world ready for…

Amazon.com To Launch Wireless eBook Reader; Google To Start Charging For Digital Books Access - 6 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 05 Sep 2007 09:47 PM PST

Two separate developments in the eBooks/digital books world, reported by NYT: -- Amazon.com (NSDQ: AMZN) is launching an eBook device called The Kindle, in October, and will be priced at…

Microsoft And Google Battle For Publishers’ Hearts At BookExpo - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 01 Jun 2007 05:46 AM PST

Microsoft and Google unveiled more details about their respective digital library plans at this week’s BookExpo America in New York. Both sought to couch their individual projects in the friendliest…

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Media Predict Sets Up Virtual Betting Parlor For Books - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Tue 22 May 2007 05:32 AM PST

Another entry in the media business model fray:Media Predict , a virtual market that lets users wager on the likely success of a book proposal, unsigned band or TV pilot.…

Storytelling Social Net FanLib Launches With $3 Million In Funding - 4 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Fri 18 May 2007 08:34 AM PST

Until it launched this past week, FanLib, a site dedicated to showcasing fan fiction, had been working in stealth mode after raising a previously unannounced $3 million from H.I.G. Ventures…

Google, Baidu Race To Set Up Online Library In China - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 08 Mar 2007 12:12 AM PST

Google and Chinese search engine Baidu are racing each other to set up an online depository of books, reports Reuters. Baidu is forming relationships with universities and libraries—the Peking University…

Random House, HarperCollins Launch Online Book Searches - 0 Comments
Posted By Jimmy Guterman - Wed 28 Feb 2007 08:59 AM PST

A fellow editor said recently, “People don’t read much online. They infosnack.” Some publishers are trying to make those snacks a little more targeted. In an attempt to make sure…

Shelfari Receives $1 million From Amazon, Others - 0 Comments
Posted By David Kaplan - Mon 26 Feb 2007 08:10 AM PST

Book lovers’ social net Shelfari has raised a $1 million first round from Amazon.com and others, according to John Cook’s Venture Blog. The company is headed by Josh Hug, the…

Macworld: Conference Itself Found Wanting; Blurb Stands Out - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Sun 14 Jan 2007 04:07 PM PST

[By Carleen Hawn] I’m told this year’s Macworld drew the biggest attendance in years. IDG won’t say just how big that is, but if true, I suppose this means it…

Google Book Search Rival Gets $1 Million Grant - 0 Comments
Posted By Jimmy Guterman - Thu 21 Dec 2006 01:58 PM PST

“You are talking about the fruits of our civilization and culture. You want to keep it open and certainly don’t want any company to enclose it.” That’s Doron Weber, program…

Amazon, HP Will Try Digital Publishing; Should Expand Titles Available In Long-Tail World - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 04 Dec 2006 01:04 PM PST

If you can print it they will buy or so goes the logic here ... A new deal between printer giant Hewlett-Packard and Amazon marks the latest attempt to make…

John Wiley Acquires UK Travel Info Site Whatsonwhen - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Thu 19 Oct 2006 06:12 AM PST

John Wiley & Sons has acquired the UK travel and entertainment site Whatsonwhen.com for an undisclosed amount. The site publishes a calendar of global cultural events, builds white-label travel sites…

Sony Reader Reviewed; Ebooks Still Hard To Cozy Up To - 0 Comments
Posted By Jimmy Guterman - Thu 12 Oct 2006 05:12 AM PST

Like an untrustful lover who keeps saying “I can change, this time it’s different,” makers of ebook readers have made promises they’ve been unable to keep. Even companies you’d think…

Poetry For Your Pod - 0 Comments
Posted By Jemima Kiss - Thu 05 Oct 2006 01:12 PM PST

In a past life, a colleague showed me an arts project they’d worked on that involved sending a daily poem to people’s mobiles for a small subscription. Not a moneyspinner,…

Sony’s E-book Device And Store To Launch Next Month; Six Publishers On Board - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Tue 26 Sep 2006 07:11 PM PST

Sony Reader, the much awaited portable e-book reader from Sony, will launch on October 1, along with the online e-book store, after missing an earlier unveiling in the Spring due…

Apple Working With Publishers; iBooks On Route?: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 24 Jul 2006 09:09 PM PST

Engadget has heard from “separate, trustworthy insiders” that Apple wants to move beyond Audible’s digital audio books, which could mean an iPod version of eBooks. The clues: -- a source…

Chinese eBook Firm ChineseAll Gets Venture Funding - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Wed 21 Jun 2006 05:07 PM PST

ChineseAll, a Chinese online/eBook publishing firm, has received first round of funding...the amount and the investors was undisclosed. The company, about six years old, has book rights from over 200…

French Publisher To Sue Google Over Book Scanning - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Tue 06 Jun 2006 09:07 AM PST

French publisher Groupe de La Martiniere says Google is “counterfeiting” and breaching IP rights by scanning some 100 books and is filing suit in Paris for damages of 100,000 euros…

Digital Publishing Roundup: Digital Rules; No, It Doesn’t; Yes, It Does - 0 Comments
Posted By Staci D. Kramer - Mon 05 Jun 2006 03:07 PM PST

-- Books will disappear. Print is where words go to die:Jeff Jarvis tossed a variation of this particular Molotov cocktail via his blog last month; now he brings the argument…