Ebooks: Page: 3

This is page 3 of the Ebooks posts on Writers Write.


  • Barnes and Noble Overall Holiday Sales Down 10.9%, But Digital Content Sales Increase 13.1% (2013-01-03): Barnes and Noble announced today that sales were down for the holiday season this year.

  • HarperCollins Launches New Digital Imprint Called HarperTeen Impulse (2012-11-26): HarperCollins has launched a new digital imprint today called HarperTeen Inpulse.

  • Penguin and Random House Confirm They Are Merging (2012-10-29): The New York Times reports that Random House and Penguin will merge.

  • Spoiler for Random Penguin Merger: News Corp Wants to Buy Penguin (2012-10-28): The Wall Street Journal reports that there may be a spoiler in the merger talks between Random House and Penguin.

  • Bowker Report: Self Publishing Trend Shows Robust Growth With Ebooks Dominating (2012-10-27): In its new report on self-publishing trends Bowker reports that the number of self-published books produced each year has increased by 287% since 2006.

  • Random House and Penguin in Merger Talks (2012-10-25): The Financial Times reports that Pearson (which owns the Financial Times) and Bertelsmann are in talks to merge Random House and Penguin.

  • Federal Judge Approves Settlement in Ebook Price Fixing Case (2012-09-07): The New York Times reports that a federal judge has now approved the ebook price fixing case settlement between the Justice Department and the three settling book publishers.

  • Amazon Buys 1,000 Dorchester Book Contracts at Auction, Pays Full Back Royalties to Authors (2012-08-31): Amazon Publishing announced that it has purchased more than 1,000 book contracts from Dorchester Publishing.

  • Survey Finds Adult Fiction Ebooks Outsold Hardcovers in 2011 (2012-07-18): A survey co-produced by the Association of American Publishers and the Book Industry Study Group has found that adult fiction ebooks outsold hardcovers last year.

  • Tor to Publish John Scalzi's Next Book First as Serialized Ebook, Then as a Hardcover (2012-07-07): Tor senior editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden announced what he calls a "unique new project.

  • Consumer Federation of America Blasts Critics of DOJ's Ebook Price Fixing Lawsuit (2012-06-25): In a statement issued today the Consumer Federation of America blasted critics of the Justice Department's lawsuit against Apple and major book publishers for ebook price fixing.

  • Ebook Price Fixing Case Headed to Trial in June, 2013, Apple Under More Scrutiny by DOJ (2012-06-23): Bloomberg reports that a trial date has been set in the ebook price fixing case against Apple and major book publishers by the U.

  • Open Road to Publish All of Pearl S. Buck's Novels as Ebooks (2012-06-18): Open Road Integrated Media is publishing all of Pearl S.

  • Thomas Pynchon Relents and Allows His Books to Be Published in Digital Format (2012-06-13): Thomas Pynchon, the author of The Crying of Lot 49, the National Book Award-winning Gravity�s Rainbow and V.

  • Lad Lit By Another Name: Esquire to Publish Digital Fiction for Men Only (2012-05-30): Esquire magazine announced that it will begin publishing fiction for men.

  • British Book Chain Waterstones Cuts Ebook Deal With Arch Enemy Amazon.com (2012-05-21): Struggling British book chain Waterstones has teamed up with Amazon.

  • Simon and Schuster Launches Pocket Star Ebook Imprint (2012-05-07): Who doesn't have a fondness for the iconic Pocket Books paperback imprint? It was the first American paperback publisher, founded in early 1939.

  • Warner Bros. Releases Classic Film Scripts as Ebooks (2012-05-01): Warner Bros.

  • Ebook Wars: Microsoft and Barnes & Noble Team Up to Take On Amazon (2012-04-30): Microsoft and Barnes & Noble have teamed up to take on Amazon over ebooks. They plan to create an electronic reading focused subsidiary.

  • Amazon Announces 1st Quarter Financials, Digital Products are Top Sellers (2012-04-27): Amazon.

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