To celebrate the diversity, innovation and influence of academic books over the course of modern history, seven specialists share the book they believe has been most influential on modern British...Continue reading
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US Supreme Court Declines to Examine Tech Industry Legal Shield
For the past several years a number of parties have been trying to use the courts to invent loopholes in Section 230 of the CDA. This law creates a safe...Continue reading
Amazon Doubled Deliveries in 2016 for Third-Party Sellers
Amazon has already touted the factoid that this past holiday season was its best ever, and now it is talking up the success of third-party sellers. Amazon shipped 50 percent more items this...Continue reading
What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on 1 January 2017?
The books To Kill a Mockingbird and Rabbit, Run, the films The Magnificent Seven and The Time Machine, and more. . . Current US law extends copyright for 70 years after the...Continue reading
Amazon Looks to the Sky to Store Products
Amazon is the latest tech company to join the April Fool’s Day fun. Unfortunately, their timing is a bit off, and their joke was announced 3 months early. Reuters reports...Continue reading
Amazon Said 2016 Holiday Season Was “Best-Ever’
Amazon.com Inc said it had its best-ever holiday season, shipping more than one billion items worldwide through its Prime membership program. The company said on Tuesday more than 72 percent...Continue reading
Rowling’s Pottermore plans to conjure up profit for 2017
Pottermore, J.K. Rowling’s digital publishing company, expects to turn a profit in its current fiscal year, buoyed by rising sales of audio books and new ebooks that build on the...Continue reading
Guest Post: Democratic Publishing – a Manifesto
by Kaleeg Hainsworth Principal, Bright Wing Books Full disclosure first: I am an ebook developer. I run a small company that makes ebooks and book trailers. We also do a...Continue reading
Guest Post: DC’s Libraries Have Fewer Books and Way More eBooks and Audiobooks, Than They Used to
Editor’s note: Librarians have been saying for years and years that ebooks were the most popular items in a public library’s catalog (also the most expensive). Now we have data...Continue reading
Sources Say Amazon Wants to Settle EU Antitrust eBook Investigation
The two antitrust complaints made against Amazon by book publishers in Germany turned out to have no merit, but the ongoing EU investigation may have legs. Reuters reports that Amazon is...Continue reading
Guest Post: On that 80% Accuracy in Predicting the Next NYTimes Best-Seller
by Andrew Rhomberg, founder of Jellybooks The upcoming book The Bestseller Code? – ?Anatomy of the Blockbuster Novel is getting a great deal of buzz. Can one genuinely predict what kind...Continue reading
Google’s Project Ara Has Been Shelved, Will be Salvaged for Parts
Google has suspended Project Ara, its ambitious effort to build what is known as a modular smartphone with interchangeable components, as part of a broader push to streamline the company’s...Continue reading
Belgians are Hunting Books, Instead of Pokemon
Here’s a new mobile game for those who have books to give away and no interest in Pokemon Go. Inspired by the success of Pokemon Go, a Belgian primary school headmaster...Continue reading
Guest Post: You’re Wrong About Digital Comics – Here’s What You’re Missing
by Adam Murray My concentration blurred around the edges as I dashed off the school bus towards a pile of mail near the front door. Rapture came once a week, and...Continue reading
Walmart Acquires Jet.com to Boost Online Sales, Fight Amazon
Last week’s rumor came true on schedule. Walmart announced on Monday it would buy online retailer Jet.com for about $3 billion, the largest-ever deal for an e-commerce startup, as it pushes...Continue reading