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Ebooks: winners in the generation game
The growth of e-reading among older age groups shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise New technology, like pop music or radical politics, is something you’re expected to lose touch with as you get...
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Big e-reader is watching you
Your e-reader knows how long it took you to finish The Hunger Games and where you stopped reading Wolf Hall. Publishers are thrilled with the new data – but what does it mean for the rest of us?...
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Japan finally embraces e-reader revolution
Japan’s leading online retailer Rakuten is hoping to see off Amazon’s Kindle and corner the world’s second-largest publishing market For a nation of technology-loving avid readers, Japan has been slow...
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Kodak Gets Out of Film Business – Will Publishers Get Out of Print Business?
When we look at the decision Kodak announced today to sell its film division, are we looking at the future of the book publishing industry? For decades, Kodak’s name was synonymous with film. Now, as...
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FAA May Soon Let Us Read E-Books During Take-Off … Or Not
At the moment, taxiing, takeoff, climb, approach, and landing are the parts of an airline flight where readers of traditional books can laugh in the face of e-book users—because those are the times...
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Amazon gets down and Dickensian with serialised stories for Kindle
Online retailer takes a leaf out of Charles Dickens’ book by publishing fiction ranging from romance to crime in instalments Amazon is following in the grand old footsteps of Charles Dickens by...
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Giving online customers the chance to pay what they want works
The Humble Indie Bundle shows most do the right thing which helps offset the people who don’t give a damn What if the experience of purchasing electronic media was redesigned around making you feel...
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E-readers reading your reading: A serious invasion of privacy?
A new report shows that almost all such devices monitor users’ activity. This doesn’t really bother me, but should I be more worried? In the light of a feature I wrote this summer, about how our...
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Independent booksellers sue Amazon and ‘big six’ publishers over ebooks
Three US booksellers claim contracts between Amazon and other publishers ‘unreasonably restrain trade’ in ebook market In a case of David against Goliath, three independent US bookshops are taking on...
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Amazon licenses fan fiction ebooks
Original authors and their amateur adapters can now jointly ‘monetise’ the popular spinoffs George RR Martin hates fan fiction, Anne Rice has banned it, Ursula K Le Guin calls it “an invasion”. But a...
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