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According to the London Evening Standard, the publisher of the popular book and movie The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had 25% of their ebook sales attributed to that one particular work. Quercus is the publisher of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and their chief executive officer Mark Smith said that he believes all of [...]
Rather than working with a traditional publisher, controversial billionaire and owner of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban has caught the wave and is publishing a new book, How to Win at the Sport of Business: If I Can Do It, You Can Do I, as an eBook through digital publisher Diversion Books. The content for comes from Cuban’s blog and he figures [...]
Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia is launching an e-book publishing program, entitled “E-books De Vanguardia.” La Vanguardia is Barcelona’s leading newspaper, and the third largest in Spain. La Vanguardia is starting its program with two free titles, both of which are available in EPUB, PDF and MOBI formats. Next up are two more books: ¡Adolescente en Casa! [...]
In some ways the transition from paper to digital distribution for book publishers and independent authors is a boon. It’s true that most e-books currently have high profit margins, and are free from many of the drawbacks of print. Peter Osnos, who is the founder of PublicAffairs Books, states that the biggest challenge small publishers face is [...]
The Natural History Museum in the UK has launched its first e-book for the iPad, created from the most expensive book ever sold, John James Audubon’s The Birds of America. The e-book features all 435 illustration plates of the original. The NHM will release a resized printed edition of the 19th-century classic in October, bound [...]
September 2011 What the publishing industry faces right now is a customer base that demands a digital product even as the technology that makes these products possible is still in its early stages of development. Random House has experienced a 200 percent growth in eBook sales this year, and every other company’s sales tell similar [...]
Author Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1983 and still a widely taught and discussed classic, is finally coming out as an e-book. But the classic novel in e-book format is not being released by a traditional publisher. Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publishing company co-founded two years ago by former HarperCollins [...]
IKEA has noticed a shift in what consumers are storing on their bookshelves. After all, a Kindle can hold thousands more books than a wooden tower in the living room. According to the Economist, next month Ikea will release a new version of its classic Billy bookshelf, one that’s focused less on storing books than on [...]
Did you know that…Keeneland racetrack in Lexington, KY held 161 thoroughbred races on 17 days in the fall of 2010. Trainers winning at least two races totaled 28. The 28 multiple winners won a total of 110 races collectively or 68% of all races. Of the 28 multiple winners, nine trainers won at least five races. Those nine trainers collected [...]
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