Items tagged with 'eBooks'

A coalition of 17 publishers shut down two websites based in Ireland for piracy, one of which was offering 400,000 pirated eBooks for free.

Penguin recently decided to join the group of publishers who no longer allow libraries to stock their eBooks. Predictably, libraries and Kindle readers aren't pleased, and they're taking action.

Javier Celaya proposes that European publishers band together to fight Amazon.

Scottish writer Ewan Morrison says the current rush to ePublish is like the dot-com bubble--and it's only a matter of time before it bursts.

Jim Hilt, vice president of eBooks at Barnes & Noble, turned some heads when he said the bookseller plans to share reader data with publishers--which sounds a bit foreboding.

Teens: who knows what they'll do next? Apparently, what they won't do is read eBooks. Unlike younger kids, most teens are already jaded on the new technology, and prefer their words on paper. Twist!

Futurist who developed search engines, predicted rise of tablets and eReaders, dead at 86.

Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin calls for the United Kingdom to adopt tax incentives to support new writers, now that publishers are taking less risks and paying out less for advances.

A new study indicates that kids prefer eBooks over print books, and that the comprehension level is the same for both--although that's not the case when it comes to enhanced eBooks.

It used to be the only way for an author to sign your Kindle was to flip the thing over and take a Sharpie to it. But Kindlegraph is bringing author signatures into the digital age.

To mark the passing of Kim Jong Il, here's some writing and filmmaking advice from the North Korean dictator.