E-Book Publishing and Sales, Items 1 to 50

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1. Elgan: Is That the Library of Congress in Your Pocket?, by Mike Elgan, Computer World, 1-1-2010 Elgan discusses the social implications of living in a world where literally millions of book and magazine titles are available to just about everyone, just about all the time.
2. Amazon Sells More Kindle Books Than Real Books On Christmas, by Mike Sachoff, WebProNews, 12-28-2009 Amazon.com has announced that for the first time ever, customers purchased more Kindle books than physical books on Christmas Day, Sachoff reports. Amazon says Kindle reader has become the most gifted item in the company's history.
3. Amazon Boasts Record Kindle Sales, by Antone Gonsalves, Information Week, 11-30-2009 Amazon says the electronic-book reader remains the best-selling product across all product categories on Amazon, it's "flying off the shelves faster than any other product Amazon sells." E-readers are popular among business travelers and avid readers.
4. Amazon's Early Holiday Cheer, by Douglas MacMillan, Business Week, 10-22-2009 Booming sales of e-book readers and material to read on them has been good for online retailer Amazon.com. The Kindle electronic book reader sells more units and contributes more revenue than any other product on the site.
5. Barnes & Noble: Raising the E-Reader Bar, by Hardy Green, Business Week, 10-20-2009 The "nook," by book retailer Barnes & Noble, addresses some of the Kindle's shortcomings and offers a "lend-me" feature, but it may not be the game-changer the e-book market needs, Green writes.
6. Google Tells EU Online Books Democratize Web, by John O'Donnell et al., ECN Magazine, 9-8-2009 The decision to allow Google to build its library of more than 10 million scanned books has divided opinion worldwide. While it would allow Web surfers to find out-of-print books, critics say Google would have too much power in its hands.
7. E-Paper Revenues Forecast to Reach $9.6B in Under 10 Years, by , ECN Magazine, 8-26-2009 E-book displays currently account for the majority of e-paper revenues, although forecast includes e-textbooks, e-newspapers, e-magazines, mobile phones, electronic shelf labels and others. Table comparing e-reading technologies.
8. Barnes & Noble Expected To Launch E-Book Reader, by Jennifer LeClaire, CRM Daily, 10-9-2009 LeClaire reports that Barnes & Noble is ready to roll out an e-book reader, with a 6-inch E Ink screen, a virtual keyboard and use AT&T's wireless network. With other e-readers headed to market, Barnes & Noble could lose sales without an e-book device.
9. Google to Reincarnate Digital Books as Paperbacks, by Michael Liedtke, ECN Magazine, 9-17-2009 Google is opening up part of its index to the maker of a high-speed publishing machine that can manufacture a paperback-bound book of about 300 pages in under 5 minutes, as not everyone wants to read books on a computer or an electronic reader.
10. How To Beat the Kindle, by Farhad Manjoo, Slate, 8-27-2009 After the iPod came to dominate the music industry, a host of tech firms tried to take it down, Manjoo writes. His suggestion: study everything the iPod's rivals did. Then do the exact opposite.
11. Catch A Fire: 'USA Today' Best-Seller List Embraces Kindle, by John Capone, Media Post, 7-23-2009 Capone reports that USA Today becomes the first major publisher of a book best-seller list to include sales data from Amazon's Kindle e-reader.
12. Technological Evolution Stirs a Publishing Revolution, by , Knowledge@Wharton, 8-5-2009 Reviews e-book readers. Where Kindle offers consumers a chance to buy some 350,000 books at the touch of a finger, the Espresso allows them to print a professional-looking paperback book in about the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee.
13. Google Readies Its Book Business, by Thomas Claburn, Information Week, 7-30-2009 Google is reaching out to explain how its plan to make books searchable and sellable online will benefit all concerned, striking partnerships with brick-and-mortar stores, Claburn reports.
14. Amazon Could Open Kindle To Other E-Book Formats, by Antone Gonsalves, Information Week, 6-16-2009 Gonsalves reports Amazon.com chief executive Jeff Bezos saying that the Kindle eventually will read more than just Amazon's electronic book formats.
15. Scribd Opens Online Store For Documents, E-Books, by Thomas Claburn, Information Week, 5-18-2009 Scribd, a Web site for the sharing of text documents, allows Scribd accountholders to upload electronic documents through its store, sell them, and keep 80% of the author-determined sale price, minus a transaction fee.
16. Make Brighter, Full-Color Electronic Readers? — Brilliant!, by Wendy Backman, University of Cincinnati, 4-29-2009 Electrofluidic Display Technology puts electronic book readers ahead by a wide margin, allowing for the first time for “e-paper” to achieve the brilliance of printed media, Backman reports.
17. Ebooks Rewrite the Rules of Education, by Eileen Mullan, EContent, 5-4-2009 Websites such as CourseSmart and Ebooks.com allow users to download and view books, and even take notes, Mullan writes. Describes VitalSource’s Bookshelf 5.1, allowing users to collaborate with each other.
18. A Free Press, by Daisy Whitney, OMMA, 5-1-2009 Online document-sharing service Scribd.com, with 50 million users each month, coupled with recent deals with major publishing houses, including Random House and Simon & Schuster, plans to offer some of their books free of charge on the site.
19. Kindle Content Design, by Jakob Nielsen, Alertbox, 3-16-2009 Writing for Kindle is like writing for print, the Web, and mobile devices combined; optimal usability means optimizing content for each platform's special characteristics.
20. Kindle 2 Usability Review, by Jakob Nielsen, Alertbox, 3-9-2009 Amazon's new e-book reader offers print-level readability and shines for reading fiction, but it has awkward interaction design and poor support for non-linear content.
21. E-Book Reader Roundup: Samsung's Papyrus Joins the Crowd, by Priya Ganapati, Wired, 3-25-2009 Ganapati reports that Papyrus, when it becomes available, will join an increasingly crowded field that includes the Kindle, Sony Reader, Fujitsu FLEPia, Hanlin eReader, Foxit eSlick Reader and the yet-to-be-released Plastic Logic reader.
22. Major Book Publishers Tap Scribd For Viral Marketing, by Antone Gonsalves, Information Week, 3-18-2009 Random House, Simon & Schuster, and other publishers will share free novels, preview chapters, and excerpts from authors on the online site for readers, Gonsalves reports.
23. Amazon's Apple Deal: Kindle Cannibal?, by Douglas MacMillan, Business Week, 3-5-2009 Customers may have less incentive to buy a Kindle, now that they can download e-books onto the iPhones and iPods they already own, MacMillan observes.
24. Fear the Kindle, by Farhad Manjoo, Slate, 2-26-2009 Manjoo explains why he thinks Amazon's amazing e-book reader is bad news for the publishing industry.
25. Your Guide to E-Books, by Mark Glaser, PBS.org Mediashift, 2-12-2009 Overview of e-books or electronic books. Discusses various reader devices such as Sony, Kindle, iPhone, and mobile reading. Includes links to other articles on e-books.
26. Google Makes 1.5 Million Books Available For iPhone, Android Phones, by Thomas Claburn, Information Week, 2-6-2009 Claburn reports Google's announcement of a mobile version of Google Book Search, opening up over 1.5 million mobile public domain books (most books in the public domain were published before 1923).
27. Amazon Kindle E-Book Reader To Get Facelift, by Antone Gonsalves, Information Week, 1-28-2009 Most experts agree the $359 Kindle e-book reader is in need of a facelift. While the Kindle gets high marks for ease of use and a free wireless connection that lets users buy books from Amazon, the gadget is ready for a redesign.
28. Move Over Kindle; E-Books Hit Cell Phones, by Olga Kharif, Business Week, 12-30-2008 A growing number of people are getting their book fix via mobile phone, a method many consider more convenient than using a dedicated e-book reader like the Kindle or Sony's Reader Digital Book, Kharif writes.
29. E-Books Are on the Rise, But Slowly, by Stacey Higginbotham, Business Week, 12-19-2008 It's clear that consumers want e-books, Higginbotham reports, but widespread popularity is still a few years - and cheaper devices - away.
30. Nintendo Planning to Enter eBook Fray, by Josh Catone, SitePoint, 12-12-2008 A free eBook reader application for the iPhone and iPod Touch called “Stanza” is actually the market leading eBook reader, Catone writes, while Nintendo is reportedly about to make a push into the eBook reader market.
31. A site for powerful business idea brainstorming, by Allan Gardyne, Associate Programs Newsletter, 11-13-2008 Recommends scanning 43things.com as a powerful business idea generator. It reminds you of common goals that people share -- and may suggest some ideas for an e-book, product, website, or blog idea.
32. Major US University Trials Electronic Textbooks, by Josh Catone, Site Point, 10-8-2008 About 1,000 students at the University of Texas at Austin will participate in an trial, getting free access to e-textbooks that normally cost between $25 and $40, rather than over $100 for their print counterparts, Catone reports.
33. Electronic Newspaper Reader Debuts -- Thinner Than Kindle With Bigger Screen, by , Editor & Publisher, 9-8-2008 Plastic Logic hopes the electronic newspaper reading device it is launching transforms the market for e-readers the way Motorola's Razr shook up cell phones -- by redefining how thin they can be while offering a full-size screen.
34. Frankfurt Book Fair Looks to E-Books, by Susanne Gabriel, CIO Today, 10-16-2008 At the Frankfurt Book Fair, Gabriel reports, only 42%t of the products on display at the fair are books, while digital media accounts for 30%.
35. The Ebook is Dead: Interview with Aaron Wall of SEOBook, by Anita Campbell, Open Forum, 8-4-2008 Aaron Wall originally sold his SEO Book in PDF format for $79 each. Now he offers a training course and a private subscriber community. About 2 years ago copyright theft issues, complexity in the SEO industry, and a rapidly expanding customer list led to the different business model. He sees the e-book model dying, since most are of low quality -- particularly since an online community approach is low cost and effective. Part 2 explores his current business model more thoroughly.
36. Amazon Beefs Up Kindle Franchise, by Aaron Ricadela, Business Week, 8-27-2008 Online bookseller Amazon's purchases of startups including Web site Shelfari could harness the e-reader's success. Shelfari lets users organize online book groups and create "virtual shelves" of titles to share recommendations with fellow readers.
37. Amazon's Breakthrough E-book, by Stephen H. Wildstrom, Business Week, 11-19-2007 Wildstrom explains how Amazon's new Kindle reader works and its ability to deliver electronic editions of selected newspapers, magazines and blogs, but wonders about the $399 price.
38. Can Amazon Kindle Digital Book Fever?, by Catherine Holahan, Business Week, 11-19-2007 Kindle is a handheld book reader that Amazon CEO is hoping will help usher books into the digital age. Users can purchase books (about 90,000 titles are currently available) for about $10 apiece, and there are no connection-subscription fees.
39. Google Download: No iTunes for Books, by Catherine Holahan, Business Week, 1-23-2007 Holahan says the search leader faces big hurdles as it pursues an online e-book service; chief among them, consumers don't want to curl up with a laptop. Another big issue to be resolved is which publishers will sign on.
40. Book Digitization, by Demir Barlas, Destination KM, 11-28-2006 Barlas provides a detailed look at the present and future of books in the wired world, Cornell University Library's plans to digitize a significant part of its 7 million books and the challenges of digitization.
41. Amazon Upgrades Book Access, by Nancy Davis Kho, EContent, 7-7-2006 Amazon's Upgrade service enables customers to search, annotate, bookmark, and print individual pages as well as immediate online access to the entire text of a purchased book, leveraging digital functionality to enhance the book buyer's experience.
42. Springer Goes on the eBook Offensive, by Marji McClure, EContent, 7-1-2006 Anchored by its online publishing service, SpringerLink, Springer will add ebooks to the database of electronic journal content the company has offered for nearly ten years, and may just breathe new life into the ebook market.
43. Can the Sony Reader Push eBooks into the Mainstream?, by Ron Miller, EContent, 3-28-2006 Hardware issues with ebook reader devices have held back widespread adoption. Miller reviews Sony's E Ink screen technology. Its screen resolution provides a similar experience to reading a paper book.
44. Turning Pages for Those Who Can't, by Steven Edwards, Wired, 1-24-2006 Edwards, a quadriplegic, writes about 2 new Amazon services for accessing books online, noting that while the company seems to be targeting programmers and students, the disabled are another set of customers.
45. Curling Up With a Good E-Book, by Burt Helm, Business Week, 12-29-2005 Is the iPod of e-readers at hand? Previous models haven't caught the public's fancy, but some major publishers seem to think Sony is about to change that with its new portable e-reader device.
46. Microsoft, Amazon and Google Tackle E-Books Their Own Way, by Evan Schuman, Publish, 11-5-2005 Schuman observes that the 20th-century view was that a book was a single product to be sold in its entirety for a set price. The 21st-century view might end up being that a book is a collection of pages, which can each be sold on its own.
47. Amazon to Sell Novellas for 49 Cents, by Greg Wiles, SeattlePI, 8-20-2005 Wiles reports that online retailer Amazon.com Inc. will allow shoppers to download exclusive short works from best-selling authors including Danielle Steel, creating a new digital marketplace for literature.
48. Ebooks Worm Their Way into the Reference Market, by Ron Miller, EContent, 8-10-2005 Tells why today's ebooks are more likely to be online reference books than the latest bestseller. In the reference model, users can search across a database of books and find answers to queries in a variety of sources, rather than reading the entire book.
49. Booksellers, Libraries See Growth In eBooks, by , Internet Week, 7-19-2004 Reports that eBooks are at last becoming a popular reading format, particularly for commuters, vacationers, and business travelers.
50. Publishers Push Return of the E-Book, by Michael Thuresson, Japan Media Review, 4-16-2004 E-books failed dismally in Japan and the United States. But Japanese publishers now hope that advanced cell phone screens and reading tablets like the Sigmabook will make e-books appealing to readers of the nation's thriving, graphics-based novels.