Ready to write some fan fic? Amazon may have some money for you. The company says it will license rights to popular books, games, movies and other content to let… Read More
People who purchased certain e-books from Amazon, Apple and other digital retailers will receive payouts estimated to range from 30 cents to $1.32 per title under a proposed price-fixing settlement… Read More
Amazon.com’s New York-based publishing business has entered into a deal with Ingram to distribute its e-book titles, opening up the possibility that competitors such as Barnes & Noble, Kobo or… Read More
Apple isn’t merely contesting allegations that it conspired with major book publishers to fix prices in the e-book industry, it’s disputing them vehemently. That much is clear based on a… Read More
A little more than a year ago, Amazon launched its “Kindle Singles” e-book program, seeking to establish a niche for content somewhere between a magazine article and a full-length book.… Read More
In its quest for an edge in the digital book market, Apple just stepped on some very big toes. Author Seth Godin, a.k.a. “America’s Greatest Marketer,” says in a blog… Read More
Amazon.com is out today with its list of the Best Books of 2011, its editors’ picks of the top 100 titles of the year. This is less than a week… Read More
Amazon.com is has begun publicly testing its new Kindle e-book lending program at two major library systems in its home region, the Seattle Public Library and the King County Library… Read More
After visiting Amazon.com in Seattle recently, legendary fantasy and science fiction writer George R.R. Martin observed that the company was “selling lots o’ books.” He wasn’t kidding. The author of the… Read More
Amazon wants to bring the concept of digital subscriptions to electronic books — opening up a catalog of content to people who pay an annual fee, according to a Wall… Read More
Amazon.com today unveiled a new Kindle feature, @author, that will let readers ask questions of authors while reading their books. Confused about the motivations of a particular character? Curious about… Read More
Amazon.com this morning debuted a new e-book discount program, Kindle Daily Deal, that will offer one Kindle book each day at a specially discounted price. Depending on the quality of… Read More
A newly surfaced Microsoft patent application proposes to serve ads inside e-books, adjusting their relevance based on the contents of the digital tome, similar to the way search engines deliver… Read More
College isn’t getting any cheaper, and that means students need financial help wherever they can ge it. Amazon.com is trying to pitch in, rolling out a new way for students… Read More
Will this device give Amazon’s Kindle a run for its money? Probably not, at least not on its own, but it’s a notable step for Google’s digital books initiative, as… Read More
The Bible is the best-selling book of all time. But it hasn’t changed much since the advent of the printing press. Colin Wong is hoping to change that with the introduction… Read More
Chalk one up for ink and paper — the real kind. A University of Washington study, released today, finds that students involved in a pilot of Amazon.com’s Kindle DX abandoned… Read More
Amazon.com plans to launch a new service later this year in which Kindle users can borrow digital books from 11,000 U.S. libraries. Dubbed Kindle Library Lending, the service will be… Read More
I confess, I’ve never read an “e-book.” But, it turns out, I very well be in a shrinking class. According to the Association of American Publishers, digital titles accounted for… Read More
Electronic book lending service Lendle may be entering its last chapter. Amazon.com today revoked API access to the company, essentially killing a service once described as the “easiest, fastest, fairest,… Read More
To understand the competitive mindset of Steve Jobs at any given moment, it’s important to listen to the sales updates that the Apple CEO traditionally gives at the beginning of… Read More
