Why Microsoft Might Spend $1B On Nook: E-Books Could Solve Its App Problem
Focusing consumer attention on e-books via an acquisition of the Nook digital library could be a good way for Microsoft to buy time while it…
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Articles tagged "E-Books"
Thu, 9 May 2013
Wed, 3 April 2013
A Goodreads Spoiled: All Your Books Are Belong To Amazon
The Amazon acquisition of Goodreads will most likely be bad for the social book-discussion site and bad for readers... but very, very good…
Mon, 10 December 2012
Want To Self-Publish A Book? Guy Kawasaki Wants To Help
Self-publishing is easier and more democratic, and authors have more freedom and earn more money per book. But selling those books is much…
Wed, 26 September 2012
Why Microsoft Is Tying B&N's Nook to Windows, Office And Bing
A new job posting from Barnes & Noble indicates that the Nook e-reader will be tied into the Microsoft platform, including Windows…
Mon, 17 September 2012
Why Book Highlights Are Anti-Social
Continuing our Social Books series, today I'm looking at book highlights. The increasing popularity of e-readers, in particular the…
Thu, 6 September 2012
Amazon's Renaissance Of Reading
"The only thing more perfect than reading is more reading," declared Amazon in a TV advert for its new Kindle eReader device. At a…
Fri, 17 August 2012
Your E-Reader's New Best Friend: StoryBundle
Ebook fans in need of new reads have a new friend in StoryBundle.
Tue, 24 July 2012
DoJ Whacks “Self-Serving” Apple in Response to E-Book Settlement Comments
Despite criticism of its actions from high-profile political figures, the Department of Justice is standing firm on its settlement with…
Fri, 20 July 2012
Why Senator Schumer Wants the Apple E-Book Pricing Lawsuit to Disappear
Charles Schumer is not pleased. The Democratic senator from New York wrote an impassioned op-ed in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week…
Fri, 13 July 2012
Can a Robot Have a Soul? Tech Theorist Kevin Kelly's First Graphic Novel
Kevin Kelly, the brilliant technology theorist and author of the seminal books "What Technology Wants" and "Out of Control," has created his…
Fri, 29 June 2012
ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: Barnes & Noble
Barnes & Noble remains a big player in a growing industry, and until Google changed everything this week, it made fantastic hardware for…
Sun, 17 June 2012
Reimagining Books: How Citia's iPad App Compares to a Paper Book
Kevin Kelly's book What Technology Wants was one of my favorite non-fiction books of 2011. In my April 2011 review, I gave it 5 out of 5…
Fri, 4 May 2012
Amazon's Kindle Fire Sales Fizzle in 2012, Market Share Slips to Third
That Apple remains in first place in the tablet market comes as no surprise. IDC's latest research shows that in the first quarter of…
Thu, 3 May 2012
Can Barnes & Noble Balance Physical and Online Sales Without Killing Itself?
In what has long been a nightmare scenario for booksellers, the physical bookstore is becoming a showroom for the online shopper. After…
Mon, 30 April 2012
Microsoft's Nook Deal Boosts B&N, Challenges Android, Doesn't Help Consumers
So much for Barnes & Noble's standing up to Microsoft's "anticompetitive scheme" against Android. One year after their nasty patent spat…
Wed, 11 April 2012
Antitrust Suit: Does Amazon Have a Right to a Price Monopoly?
There's no question that six major e-book publishers decided it was necessary to impose on retailers an "agency pricing" scheme - a set…
Wed, 29 February 2012
When Apple's "Closed" Nature Goes Too Far
It's easy to take jabs at Apple for sometimes being too "closed." From restrictions on mobile apps to the limited customizability of the…
Mon, 27 February 2012
Amazon & Google Getting Impatient With Publishers
All is not well in the e-book market. Amazon and Google have each scaled back some e-book programs in the past week because business was…
Thu, 23 February 2012
Books Continue to Evolve - E.O. Wilson's 'Life on Earth'
Last month Apple announced iBooks 2, the next generation of its e-book app for iPhone and iPad. iBooks 2 was notable for the launch of a new…
Wed, 22 February 2012
Ready, Set, Download the Universe
Download the Universe brings together 15 of the Internet's top science folks in an online forum that guides readers through the vast world…
Wed, 15 February 2012
Self-Publish Books With BookType
In case you hadn't heard, there's a bit of revolution underway in the way books are published. Whether they're printed or laid out in pixels…
Tue, 24 January 2012
Why iBooks EULA May Not Be Enforceable
When Apple unveiled plans last week to ramp up its efforts in the education space, the company's announcement was met with decidedly mixed…
Thu, 19 January 2012
E-Book Library Lending Grows
When the concept of libraries lending out e-books first came about, the idea had its skeptics. Some in the publishing industry worried…
Why Apple, Why Does it Have to Be Like This? The Cold Cynicism of the iBook EULA
It's hard to wrap my brain around the cold cynicism of Apple's releasing a new tool to democratize the publishing of eBooks today, only to…
