An electronic book (e-book) is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on computers or other electronic devices. Although sometimes defined as “an electronic version of a printed book”, many e-books exist without any printed equivalent. Commercially produced and sold e-books are usually intended to be read on dedicated e-book readers, however, almost any sophisticated electronic device that features a controllable viewing screen, including computers, tablet computers, and smartphones can also be used to read e-books. E-book reading is increasing in the US, since by 2014 28% of adults had read an e-book, compared to 23% in 2013.
Something is wrong when publishers — and likely Apple — are paying consumers to go shopping at Amazon. Here’s the latest from an ebook investigation that jumped the shark some time… Read more »
Media businesses have long operated from the premise of inherent value — that each media property has some fixed and immutable appeal based on its particular inputs. Read more »
Ebook and literacy nonprofit Worldreader is partnering with the UN Refugee Agency on a pilot program to give Kindles to 2,300 secondary school students in African refugee camps. Read more »
Amazon is notorious for a lack of transparency when it comes to e-book sales, leaving many to do their own guessing about what exactly goes on inside the black box. While… Read more »
Ebook subscription service Oyster has added about 100 titles from Disney and is breaking out a separate children’s section. But most of those books are text-based, not illustrated. Read more »
Apple lost its attempt to remove a monitor who is charged with ensuring compliance with an order of ebook prices, but who Apple accused of conducting a roving investigation. Read more »
Open Road, the digital publisher cofounded by former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman, has acquired E-Reads, an ebook publisher launched in 1999 by literary agent Richard Curtis. Read more »
Sony is getting out of the ebook business in the United States and Canada, and turning its customers (there aren’t many of them at this point) over to Kobo. Read more »
Apple is fighting a court order that imposes a monitor to investigate the company — at Apple’s expense. On Tuesday, Apple and the Justice Department sparred over whether the monitor should… Read more »