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Some of technology's best-known companies are betting there's pent-up demand for on-demand books.
Some of the technology industry's best-known companies are betting there's pent-up demand for on-demand books.
Google Inc. is giving 2 million books in its digital library a chance to be reincarnated as paperbacks.
China is relaxing its grip over its traditionally drab media with plans to create half a dozen major publishing houses to compete globally and spread the influence of Chinese culture, a Chinese media watchdog agency said Tuesday.
One of the world's leading music publishers struck a deal Tuesday with the estate of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and will work to bring the civil rights icon's words to a wider audience by encouraging their use in songs.
More bad news from the book industry: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced that it is "streamlining" its educational business, and eliminating jobs in both its education and general divisions. HarperCollins and Pearson, parent company of Penguin Group (USA), are freezing wages and considering layoffs.
Roger Straus, the late founder and longtime leader of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, regarded his company as a family and liked to boast that "We publish authors, not books."
At a time when publishers are suing to prevent Google from putting excerpts of copyrighted books online, HarperCollins has started an advertiser-supported program that will offer a free look at the full text of selected works.
What Will Google's Newspaper Crusade Mean for Readers?It's nice that CEO Eric Schmidt feels Google has a "moral responsibility" to help reinvent the newspaper industry. But how?
Epicenter The Business of Tech E-Readers May Not Solve Publisher Woes YetPublishers hoping to halt a slide in sales with new electronic reading devices will struggle to get consumers to embrace them until the technology improves, experts say.
Muslim honour killing book cancelled over safety fearsAnother European publisher has fallen victim to blashemy laws against Islam. A German publisher has cancelled plans to publish a mass market fiction novel out of fears that it might face violent protests due to a "rude" reference to the Koran.
Apple Up To Same Old, New Devices With Rumored "Tablet"Apple may be coming out with a Table to rival the Kindle.
Following Debt Reduction, Advanstar Moving Toward "New Strategic Plan" You can't really categorize things as layoffs when they're more of a shift in strategy. [While there were layoffs] you have to remember that it's in context that we've had some geographic shifts in strategy and a shift in strategy in regard to our product portfolio.
Sarah Palin book won't be making it on Kindle in time for ChristmasPalin's book publisher is delaying the e-book distribution of her new work. The conjecture is that Harper-Collins is afraid of a similar situation as "Lost Symbol", where Kindle sales quickly outpaced hard-cover sales.
Prison guards go to court for Facebook rights - Security- msnbc.comAustralia's guards fighting for the right to complain about bosses online, without any censorship or threat of disciplinary actions for doing it.
News Content As a Resource, Not a Final ProductPaul Graham has posted an essay questioning whether we ever really paid for "content," as publishers of news and music are saying while they struggle to stay afloat in the digital age.
The Future Of BooksCould come with the downfall of book stores. Anthony Grafton explains and worries about monopoly control of information.
TC50 Demopit Company TweetFunnel Launches Enterprise-Friendly Twitter Publishing PlatformAs more and more businesses dip their toes in the Twitter stream, there's a need for enterprise-focused Twitter applications that cater to businesses' needs from the microblogging platform.
The writer's road is paved with pot holes and detours. Unless you're a well-established author, a celebrity, or a politician, where publishing houses beat down your door with offers of huge contracts and advances, most writers are simply doing our best to just keep going.
So, you think you can write? The truth is that everybody that has been through grade school can write, but not everybody can write in a way that will entice people to read their work, and continue reading it, and continue reading it, and continue reading it …
Controversial Decision By U.S. Publisher Sparks Debate On Free Speech, CensorshipGQ restricts readership of one of its own articles. Does not allow it to be published in Russia or even on its own website.
Sony Sides With Google in 'Library of Future' SettlementIn the battle to win readers for the books of the future, Sony has sided with Google over a controversial, proposed copyright lawsuit settlement that lets Google build out the library and bookstore of the future.
Breakthrough of the Podcast AuthorsA number of unpublished authors have attracted impressive followings syndicating their books through podcasts. Crown publisher Tina Constable indicates that podcasts could become a source of new material for publication.
Join the Future of Publishing: Leave a CommentEarlier this summer, as part of a master's program at Emerson College, Kerry Skemp began blogging and tweeting about online commentary (i.e., comments left on websites or tweets) and its role in the future of publishing.
Print, beware! Publishers are "on the road" to pure digitalThe American Chemical Society found that most subscribers to its academic journals no longer want the print version, and the group's VP of Web strategy says it's only a matter of time before print fades away completely.
The ultimate purpose of this "CHALLENGE" is to have NEWSVINE Authors, Graphic Artists and Photographers interact by sharing their respective creative abilities. Here's the deal:
Stop the publishing whitewash - the view that books with Black faces on the cover don't sell has not been testedThe American arm of world-renowned Bloomsbury Publishing has found itself at the centre of a controversy over the "whitewashing" of the cover of one of its author's books.
Parallel Importation: Is It Australian Literature Versus The Rest Of The World?The Productivity Commision recently released a report that recommended opening up the Australian Publishing Market to the rest of the world. Whilst writers are up in arms about it, Benjamin Solah argues that the opposition is divisive and nationalist.,
Amazon remotely removes purchased copies of Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from KindlesPeople who bought Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm for their Kindle were surprised to discover that it had disappeared from their devices overnight.
Robert Quigley: A Year of News Tweeting: Lessons LearnedJust a little more than a year ago, I went into the office of the Austin American-Statesman's Internet managing editor and asked whether I could start using Twitter to engage the social media community.
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