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On this cold night in January we finally figured out whether Amazon is a good thing or not! I can’t believe you weren’t there, at the Kaufman Center on West 67th… Read more »
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Laura oversees news production in the mornings from the Gigaom East office in Manhattan, assigning, editing, and writing stories as needed. She also covers digital book publishing, and has a particular interest in Amazon and ebooks. She was previously the editor of Publishing Trends, a website and newsletter for the book publishing industry, and served as a staff writer for paidContent.
On this cold night in January we finally figured out whether Amazon is a good thing or not! I can’t believe you weren’t there, at the Kaufman Center on West 67th… Read more »
Apple’s iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite, which launched to the public this fall, come with iBooks pre-installed. That decision has paid off: iBooks has averaged one million new customers every… Read more »
Amazon’s ebook subscription service, Kindle Unlimited, has attracted criticism recently, with some self-published authors complaining that the service devalues their work and chafing at the requirement that they make their ebooks exclusive… Read more »
Two days after Amazon’s original drama Transparent won a Golden Globe for best TV series, the company announced it’s signed Woody Allen to write and direct a half-hour comedy series. It’s the… Read more »
This is a good deal: Evernote, password manager LastPass, to-do-list app Wunderlist and read-it-later service Pocket have bundled premium subscriptions to all four services in a single “Productivity Pack” for $59.99 (found… Read more »
Another large publisher has decided that ebook subscription services are worth testing out: Macmillan on Tuesday became the third big-5 publisher to make ebooks available on Oyster and Scribd, following HarperCollins… Read more »
The ebook subscription service Scribd has raised $22 million in new funding, TechCrunch reported Friday, in a round led by Khosla Ventures and including Redpoint Ventures, Charles River Ventures and Silicon… Read more »
Ebooks are feeling a bit hungover heading into the new year. The 50 Shades of Grey exuberance of 2011 and 2012 feels long ago. The first seemingly viable ebook subscription services launched… Read more »
Snapchat rang in the new year with $485.6 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing published December 31. The funding came from 23 investors, unnamed in the filing but… Read more »
Book publisher Macmillan, like Simon & Schuster and Hachette before it, has signed a new contract with Amazon and will return to agency pricing on its ebooks starting in 2015. In… Read more »