Another big-five publisher is seeing the value of ebook subscription models: Simon & Schuster is making its entire backlist of about 10,000 titles available on Scribd and Oyster. Conveniently, S&S author… Read more »
Amazon has signed a big streaming video deal with Viacom. The multi-year agreement includes Prime Instant Video access to kids’ shows like Dora the Explorer and SpongeBob SquarePants, plus grownup shows… Read more »
Users of Amazon Prime Instant Video will be able to stream more shows from CBS (s CBS) and Showtime, including past seasons of America’s Next Top Model, Everybody Loves Raymond and… Read more »
New episodes of CBS’s Under the Dome will be available for viewing on Prime Instant Video four days after they’re first broadcast on CBS. It’s the first time that Amazon has… Read more »
A copyright law that lets authors break contracts after 35 years will start taking effect in January. The law, which is meant to give authors like Stephen King and Judy Blume… Read more »
There’s a mud-covered station wagon parked in a rest stop off the Maine Turnpike. It has no license plates and no driver. And it is killing… Read more »
Rest assured, bookstores and publishers: Amazon’s Kindle will not do to books what Apple’s iPod and MP3 downloads did to the music industry. Read more »
From Comic-Con, Barely Political covers an issue I’m sure we all occasionally wonder: who’s Batman (and other costumed folks) voting for in November? And Jill Weinberger provides a closer look at… Read more »