Lots of excitement surrounded the launch of Apple’s iBook this past April–it was Apple, after all, so how could the iBookstore be anything but awesome? Well, over at TUAW, blogger David Winograd says that after six months, he’s convinced iBooks is “a dismal failure.” He cites a bunch of reasons, including iBooks’ extremely poor selection when compared [...]
While sales in the print trade segments shrank in August, e-book sales had another strong month, jumping 172.4%, to $39 million, according to the 14 publishers that report sales to the AAP’s monthly sales estimates. For the year-to-date, e-book sales were up 192.9%, to $263 million. AAP said that of the approximately 19 publishers that [...]
As a senior vice president of product and platform development at Amazon.com, David Risher was well aware of the potential of ebooks. But it wasn’t until he left the company in 2008 that he discovered just how powerful ebooks really can be. Today, his non-profit venture, Worldreader.org, is undertaking an ambitious goal – to bring [...]
Oh you just know this one’s going to turn up in Steve Jobs‘ next Keynote. According to a financial analyst working for Bernstein Research, the iPad, having sold over 8.5 million units and counting, is the fastest selling device of all time. Now, get ready for the shocker: The numbers in the Bernstein study were crunched before [...]
The “Keep Swinging” business biography byJay B. Myers ranked among the nation’s top-selling business books for a sixth consecutive month in September, according to the Inc./800ceoread Business Best Seller List. Myers is CEO of Interactive Solutions Inc., a Tennessee-based company that specializes in videoconferencing, distance-learning, telemedicine and audio-visual sales and support. Widespread interest in the story of his [...]
Famous Book Publicist and Publisher Tells you How to Write Your Book, Get it Published and How to Market It Rick Frishman, the founder of Planned Television Arts, has been one of the leading book publicists in America for over 30 years. Working with many of the top book editors, literary agents and publishers in America, [...]
Activities Rule Not The Clock! It’s not that we don’t have enough time. The problem is that we have more events and activities to manage in the same amount of time. This is due, in part, to technology, the internet, and expectations of doing more with less. In a way we’ve become compressors of life, [...]
Stable, flexible and easy to use, WordPress is an obvious choice for those who blog for a living or just want to keep their family up-to-date on what they’ve been up to on the other side of the country. With a multitude of plug-in options, themes and the ability to host your published blog on WordPress’ [...]
Long before there were iPads and Kindles changing communication as we know it, there were other disruptive technologies and breakout information delivery systems. Like the printing press. And the Guttenberg Bible. WSJ’s Marshall Crook offers a brief history of the book.
When we got our first glimpse of the Espresso Book Machine from On Demand Books we were of course thoroughly charmed by the Rube Goldberg nature of the thing, but were left feeling unconvinced of the practicality of it — would people really pay money for custom-printed physical copies of classic books they can download for [...]
The Ingram Content Group moves beyond traditional wholesaling Ingram has long been thought of as the book industry’s quintessential middleman, distributing publishers’ books and other products to thousands of accounts. But over the past five to 10 years, the company has invested tens of millions of dollars to become what Skip Prichard, president and CEO [...]
B&N board to vote on Tuesday; sources tell WSJ that a compromise between B&N and Burkle is “highly unlikely”. Tuesday could be the darkest day in Leonard Riggio‘s storied career as a bookseller. The Barnes & Noble Inc. chairman faces a fight for re-election, as activist investor Ronald Burkle makes his own pitch for the board in [...]