BOOK AND PUBLISHING INDUSTRY HEADLINES:
The rise of the digital book has prompted one of the city's last independent bookstore operators to promote cutthroat pricing in an attempt to keep alive his two satellite used bookstores....
From: Yahoo! News Search Results for book publishing industry Wed, Jul 21 2010 22:47:01 EDT
Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk , Wednesday 21 July 2010 at 03:50:00 Publishing industry having to deal with changing landscape Amazon has reported that sales of e-books have outpaced demand for hardback books for the first time. The company said that in the last three months it had sold 143 e-books for every hardcover book. In the last month this had risen to 180 e-books for every ......
From: Yahoo! News Search Results for book publishing industry Tue, Jul 20 2010 22:58:37 EDT
Penguin launched on Tuesday the first electronic book with a video tie-in, as the embattled book publishing industry bets on multimedia ebooks to revive flagging growth and boost readership....
From: Yahoo! News Search Results for book publishing industry Tue, Jul 20 2010 12:55:11 EDT
Penguin launched on Tuesday the first electronic book with a video tie-in as the embattled book publishing industry bets on multimedia ebooks to revive flagging growth and boost readership....
From: Yahoo! News Search Results for book publishing industry Tue, Jul 20 2010 12:22:00 EDT
Rackspace and NASA have teamed up to create an open cloud computing system that could rival services from Amazon.com, Google, Microsoft and others.
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From: NYT > Business Day Tue, Jul 20 2010 10:32:03 EDT
"The Kindle format has now overtaken the hardcover format," says Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive. A drastic cut in the price of the Kindle portable reader is probably a major factor. There's more evidence that digital books are upending the publishing industry....
From: Yahoo! News Search Results for book publishing industry Tue, Jul 20 2010 8:45:57 EDT
"The Kindle format has now overtaken the hardcover format," says Jeff Bezos, Amazon's chief executive. A drastic cut in the price of the Kindle portable reader is probably a major factor. There's more evidence that digital books are upending the publishing industry....
From: Yahoo! News Search Results for book publishing industry Mon, Jul 19 2010 22:51:08 EDT
Dan Brown's latest book The Lost Symbol is flying off the shelves and Oprah has picked a new book-club book. Things are looking up for the publishing industry, especially since this fall promises books from some of the leading fiction and non-fiction writers working today....
From: Yahoo! News Search Results for book publishing industry Sat, Jul 17 2010 19:49:49 EDT
The traditional publishing industry's nightmare may be coming true in Japan: A precious big-name author plans to release a novel directly on Apple's iPad....
From: Yahoo! News Search Results for book publishing industry Fri, Jul 16 2010 9:27:37 EDT
Penguin Group chief John Makinson has reinvented the publisher for the digital age - and delivered a healthy bottom line Job: chairman and chief executive, Penguin Group Age: 55 Industry: publishing Turnover: aŁ1bn Staff: 850 (UK), 3,500 (worldwide) Salary: aŁ1.43m (including aŁ655,000 bonus) New entry Penguin reinvented publishing in the 1930s with the invention of the quality paperback . Now its ......
From: Yahoo! News Search Results for book publishing industry Thu, Jul 15 2010 20:21:53 EDT