Knoxville is full of romantic people, Cambridge has lots of entrepreneurs and Alexandria is a flat-out well-read city. Those are some of the conclusions we can make after seeing Amazon’s third annual list of the Most Well-Read Cities in America. Alexandria, Va. topped the list for the second consecutive year, while Seattle finished at No. 13 and… Read More…
Barnes & Noble, the struggling bookstore chain, is looking to supercharge its tablet and e-reader business in the face of intense competition from Apple and Amazon.com. The company just announced that it plans to give away a 6-inch Nook Simple Touch — a $79 device — when customers buy a $269 Nook+ HD tablet. The deal… Read More…
It all added up for Joe Booth. Having spent 25 years in the video game industry at places like Microsoft, Electronics Arts and Ubisoft, the England-born veteran had learned the ins and outs of the gaming world. He is also dyslexic. For his entire life, reading and writing haven’t come easy. And as a father… Read More…
Amazon.com is already the 800 pound gorilla in the book selling and publishing business. And now some author groups are hoping to curb its power when it comes to owning new domain name extensions. As you may recall, Amazon last year applied with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to own extensions… Read More…
Nearly a year after Microsoft agreed to invest $300 million in Barnes & Noble’s Nook business unit, the bookseller is seriously considering what to do with the electronic book reader. A report out from The New York Times, citing a person familiar with Barnes & Noble’s strategy, indicates that the company is possibly moving away from… Read More…
Think of Seattle. And whether it’s Amazon.com or Elliott Bay Book Company or the amazing main Seattle library, reading is a core fabric of our society. Heck, even Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s dad was a librarian for the University of Washington. Blame the rain. People here love books, and reading. But are we slipping when it… Read More…
It’s not easy for an author to put out a commercially successful product. Not only does he or she have to craft a story, but there’s so much more: editing, designing, marketing, etc. To make life a little easier for authors, a new Seattle-based startup is offering up a helpful marketplace. Writer.ly was born after… Read More…
I wish I knew how many books Bill Gates has read in his life. The man inspires me to read more, and now he’s out with a recommended reading list for 2013. Gates spent the holidays catching up on some books and has five titles that he thinks you should check out. The Signal and… Read More…
We’ve seen brick-and-mortar booksellers close down all over the country due to online retailers like Amazon. Will public libraries follow suit and vanish from the earth? It doesn’t seem like it, at least not according to an extensive Pew Internet report just released that shows how people feel about reinventing libraries. Pew asked 2,252 Americans ages 16… Read More…
Reviews on Amazon.com can make or break an author’s career, but the motivations of those leaving the comments aren’t always clear. Take, for instance, Randall Sullivan’s book — Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson. The New York Times offers an inside look at what happens when a group of people — in this… Read More…
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