Pirates Desiring Kindles Should Ask Santa
Peter Sunde, a co-founder of the BitTorrent site the Pirate Bay, has asked for a Kindle. He does not intend to buy one, of course - he has asked... David Rothman Recovering
David Rothman, the man behind Teleread, recently suffered a heart attack - but the folks at Teleread are keeping us all updated and we're grateful... Borders on the Brink
Yesterday Borders issued Pershing Square Capital 5.15 warrants because it failed to find a buyer by a previously-set deadline of October 1. And no... OCLC adding tagging to Worldcat
Yes, folks, the tagging mania has hit the library catalog. OCLC has announced that it's allowing a tagging functionality in WorldCat. From Library... Capstone buys Heinemann-Raintree
PW reports it, and I heard it from Capstone themselves - they bought Heinemann-Raintree and have added 6000 titles to their list (which is already... Personalized Books on Sharedbook.com
Sharedbook.com is announcing today that it's launching a program of personalized books - mostly aimed at the kids' book market - where gift-givers... Bloggers We Love: Kassia
Kassia Krozser bitch-slaps your idealism in this post on her Booksquare blog. Kassia's got a great outlook on publishing, and she skewers that NY... David Foster Wallace
I can't keep ignoring this one. I was a writing student at Mount Holyoke in the mid-1980s. I took every writing course they offered, went to the... Start With XML
So how do publishers stay alive when the business is tanking?I'm fortunate to be part of a project called Start With XML. Conceived of by Mike... The End of the World
As Wall Street burns up, New York Magazine comes out with an article called "The End of the Book Business". It's inconclusive - only... Kindle Caution
Publishers Lunch has a brief item about Globe Pequot's decision to release the bios of Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain on the Kindle today. The... Friday's BISG meeting
Stay tuned for a cool announcement being made this Friday at the BISG annual meeting. I'll be writing about it in next week's The Big Picture... Same old same old
Motley Fool has a piece about a new e-reading device by Plastic Logic, with a screen the size of a piece of paper:With essentially the same... Ravenous Romance Responds
A commenter on our Ravenous Romance post notes that other erotic romance publishers are heavily invested in a digital publishing strategy -... And now it's time for newspapers
Google is now vacuuming up digital newspaper archives, and newspaper publishers are joining the ranks of book publishers - worrying that their...