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Apr 10 2012: Back in 2010 Amazon quietly booked a Swedish company that is said to be the world leaders in "light-guide" technology. It is this technology that Techcrunch predicts will be behind a new generation of glowing Kindles next year.
Apr 09 2012: The American Library Association has released its list of the Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2011. The Top Ten list includes Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Apr 06 2012: According to the Pew Research Center Study one in five American adults read an e-book in 2011 and 43% read at least one long-form digital text (e.g. an ebook or magazine). 88% of those who read an e-book during the past year also read a printed book.
Among the 14% ...
Apr 06 2012: Amazon.co.uk, Britain's biggest online retailer (responsible for one in every four books sold in the UK, to name just one product category in its enormous repertoire), is being investigated by British tax authorities as it generated sales of more than $5bn in the UK in ...
Apr 05 2012: Google has informed the American Booksellers Association and Powell's Books that it will end its Google eBooks reseller program worldwide. A few weeks ago it had seemed as if independent booksellers were getting a reprieve when Google reinstated some affiliate stores ...
Apr 03 2012: US non-profit literacy agency Worldreader has beta-launched an app for non-smartphones in order to distribute free e-books into sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the developing world.
The Worldreader app uses cloud-based data compression technology to enable any ...
Apr 03 2012: US states have lost more than $52 billion during the past six years due to untaxed Internet purchases, according to a University of Tennessee study. Facing massive budget deficits that threaten further cuts to schools and social services, an ever-growing chorus of ...
Apr 02 2012: The bad news came to McFarland & Co. in an email from Amazon. Starting Jan. 1, 2012 - then only 19 days away - Amazon would buy the publisher's books at 45 percent off the cover price, roughly double its current price break.
For McFarland, an independent publisher of...
Theo of Golden by Allen Levi
One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why…
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