A group of researchers have proven something we already expected to be the case: your Twitter follower count is somewhat of a meaningless metric when it comes to ...
Sony says it is cutting the price on its entry-level e-book reader, dubbed the Pocket Reader, to $169 -- perhaps the first in a coming price war for the devices.
While Google remains in legal limbo with its effort to put books online in the U.S., such digitizing is moving ahead in different places in Europe under several experimental programs." />
Ficly is a place for playing with story-telling; a collaborative environment where anyone can pick up a narrative thread and weave a prequel or sequel.
Random House is the only major publisher whose titles cannot be bought directly from Apple's iBooks application, having resisted the new pricing model that Apple offered publishers for the iPad." />
Magazine-and-newspaper publisher Hearst is near a deal to buy digital-marketing firm iCrossing, the latest sign of how publishers are going head to head with Madison Avenue to grab some of the growing revenues from online advertising." />
Sen Jon Tester (D-MT) has proposed a law that would take something like FRPPA one step further, putting most public government documents (e.g., who lobbies the White House, not gov't personnel files) into a searchable database. This would be an improvement in granting access to the public as currently there is a fair amount of hard-copy red tape that must be gone through under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain these documents.
Magazines have always promised advertisers a certain number of paying readers. Now the industry is moving toward another guarantee: that its ads will work.
As e-books go mainstream, authors are gaining an opportunity to literally rewrite history. Eagle-eyed owners of the Amazon Kindle e-reader, like Paul Biba of the site TeleRead, have taken note of messages from Amazon letting them know that an e-book they had purchased "contained some errors that have been corrected."
A group of writers and editors created a magazine in two days, in an experimental project that aimed to use the Internet to shake up the way a print magazine is made.
Sports Illustrated hasn't come to Apple's iPad yet, but the publisher is already showing off a new version of its future: A digital magazine designed with Google in mind. Here's the demo that Editor Terry McDonell gave at Google's I/O developer conference today.