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Nov.02.2010
Will You Buy An E-Reader As a Holiday Gift?Craig Morgan Teicher
It looks like the 2010 holiday season will once again be all about e-readers. B&N just introduced the Nook Color, Apple is filling stores with iPads, and folks interested in getting into e-readers have lots of choices. We’re...
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Nov.01.2010
James Patterson Has Sold 1 Million Kindle eBooks
Amazon announced yesterday that James Patterson has sold over 1 million Kindle ebooks (1,005,803 to be exact). He is only the second author to reach this mark, making him the second member of the “Kindle Million Club,” which...
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Nov.01.2010
Open University makes e-books available on iTunesGood news for expats interested in distance learning: the Open University (OU) has become one of the first universities in the world to make e-books for its courses available on iTunes.
By Leah Hyslop
Expats abroad can download distance learning...
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Oct.30.2010
A New World of Kids' Books on Barnes & Noble's Nookco
By SLJ Staff October 29, 2010
P.D. Eastman's Go, Dog. Go! (Random, 1966), Anna Dewdney's Llama Llama Red Pajama (Viking, 2005), and Beverly Cleary's The Mouse and the Motorcycle (William Morrow, 1965) are just some of the over a thousand...
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Oct.29.2010
While Googling myself (Hey, 'fess up! You do it, too!) I came up with this article, in LiveWires.com, dated April 3, 2009. In it, I was asked: "How do you see the world changing from a writer’s point of view?"
My answer is below.
Do I still feel it hits the mark? Hell yeah. In a...
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Oct.29.2010
Penguin Sales up 5%
In an update on its nine month results, Pearson said that sales for Penguin rose 5%. A tough retail environment, Pearson said, has been offset by “strong publishing and rapid growth in e-book sales” which have increased threefold. Penguin now has 16,500 e-book titles and “a...
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Oct.29.2010
Stephen King Earned $80,000 on Kindle Novella
By Jason Boog
In 2009, we caught up with horror novelist Stephen King during the release of “Ur“–an exclusive novella he published on the launch of the Kindle 2. Our video interview is embedded above.
In a recent interview with...
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Oct.26.2010
I promise that tomorrow I’m going to write about something other than Magical Shrinking. It’s just that the ePub conversion has finally been completed! This is exciting news, because it’s been in the works for a couple months. I wanted to have the best quality document possible, and I feel like it’...
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Oct.26.2010
Barnes & Noble Reveals $249 Color NookBy Jason Boog on October 26, 2010 4:17 PM
Today Barnes & Noble unveiled $249 Nook Color, an eReader with a 7-inch color touch display and the ability to play video. It will run on the Google Android platform and will ship “on or around November 19th.”...
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Oct.26.2010
Waterstone's halts overseas e-book sales
| Victoria Gallagher
Waterstone's has stopped selling e-books to customers outside of the UK and Ireland in order to comply with the legal demands of publishers regarding the territories into which it can sell digital titles.
Waterstone's spokesman...
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