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10 Universities with Amazing Online Collections

a TeleRead Contributor — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 04:00:28 +0000

It’s common knowledge that universities often hold amazing pieces in their library collections, from rare books to priceless works of art. Many are available for viewing simply by visiting the university, but many others are not available for public access, or visitors simply don’t have the time or resources to visit in person. That’s why [...]

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The 10 Most Defining Novels of the Millennial Generation

a TeleRead Contributor — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 03:55:13 +0000

In any culture, the people look to storytellers to give shape to the experiences of their times. This is the ancient practice of myth-making. It helps us commemorate and come to terms with what we’ve been through. The greatest writers are often those who manage to capture the quintessence of the zeitgeist around them. Millennials (sometimes also [...]

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Fifty Shades of Black-on-Grey: The unfortunate design limitations of e-books

a TeleRead Contributor — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 19:47:24 +0000

By Alan Cairns Last month, Amazon announced that they are selling more e-books than printed books for the first time. For every 100 hardback and paperback books sold on Amazon, 114 e-books are downloaded. The company says that we are experiencing a “reading renaissance,” and book publishing stats also show that adult e-book sales grew 49 [...]

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A Plaintive Cry from the E-Text Wilderness

a TeleRead Contributor — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 02:53:46 +0000

By Rob Suggs So many public domain e-texts, so little time—and guidance. That there’s the rub. Ever had this happen? You spot an intriguing title in the Gutenberg feed, or on some other free text site. New e-reader food? Maybe. What’s the book about? Like all public domain texts, it dates before the Great Rise [...]

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The Coming Publishing Renaissance

a TeleRead Contributor — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 18:08:23 +0000

By Mik Strøyberg | Director of Consumer Engagement for Issuu Conventional wisdom holds that publications are losing market share and that the industry itself is endangered. But in this case, conventional wisdom is wrong: We’re actually on the verge of a publishing renaissance—a new age when people can access whatever content they want wherever they are—and [...]

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Don’t Forget: Apple’s media event live blog is today at 1:00 PM EST

a TeleRead Contributor — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:26:10 +0000

By Aaron Kraus | for Technology Tell Apple has called reporters together for a conference on October 23, with the vague-but-suggestive line, “We’ve got a little more to show you.” Like all Apple’s announcements, the invitation to this event does not directly reveal the product(s) to be unveiled, but does contain a subtle hint: “little.” [...]

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The Profitable Business of Kindle Book Lending

a TeleRead Contributor — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:07:47 +0000

By Andy Richardson, CEO of Influential Software Last week, Amazon announced that it was extending its controversial e-book lending scheme, the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, to the UK. In its current state, Kindle Lending Library is a value-added service to Amazon Prime, the premium delivery service for which the e-commerce giant charges £49 a year here in [...]

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Are Discoverability and DRM Mortal Enemies?

a TeleRead Contributor — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 03:20:51 +0000

By Brian Howard Publishers of e-books have a dilemma: You want readers to find (and purchase) your products. And yet you don’t want pirates making your products available for free. But is digital rights management (DRM) technology, one method publishers use (with questionable success) to combat piracy, a hindrance or even antithetical to content discovery? [...]

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Archos Arnova introduces its GBook eReader

a TeleRead Contributor — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:19:01 +0000

By Robert Nelson It appears as if Archos is getting ready to unleash another Arnova-branded tablet, although they’re actually marketing this particular model as an e-reader. What exactly does that mean? According to a recent Liliputing post: The Arnova GBook may look like a 7 inch Android tablet… because it is. In other words, you can [...]

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Amazon Studios Options its First Novel for a Crowdsourced, Big-Screen Adaptation

a TeleRead Contributor — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:34:38 +0000

Films of books can often help drive sales of those books, and bestsellers often make for movie blockbusters, so it’s no surprise to see online bookseller Amazon today announcing that its content development arm, Amazon Studios, has optioned its first novel, the Amazon-published, Southern horror Seed, to begin making a big-screen adaptation. As with other [...]

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Eric Hellman of Unglue.it on e-books, the creative commons, passionate authors and life after Amazon

a TeleRead Contributor — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:49:19 +0000

By Brian Howard A few weeks ago, crowdfunding platform Unglue.it announced the release of its first e-book, Oral Literature in Africa, via Cambridge’s Open Book Publishers. While the scholarly tome by Ruth H. Finnegan likely didn’t set the publishing world ablaze upon its initial publication in 1970, and its e-book release in 2012 didn’t unseat any bestsellers, its [...]

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Barnes & Noble reportedly instructs local stores to pull Amazon titles

a TeleRead Contributor — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 03:04:50 +0000

Yesterday, shoppers discovered that Barnes & Noble is carrying books from Amazon Publishing’s New York imprint in stores around the country, despite the company’s insistence that it wouldn’t do so. Following our story’s publication yesterday, I learned that Barnes & Noble headquarters sent an email to its branches around the country telling them to pull [...]

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E-Books Expand Their Potential With Serialized Fiction

a TeleRead Contributor — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:12:51 +0000

Could serialized fiction finally force the e-book to evolve? Various ventures are trying to satisfy a common complaint about e-books: that they are simply black-and-white digital reproductions of long-form print books, flat and unoriginal in their design and concept. One variation, what publishers call enhanced e-books, with audio and video elements woven throughout the text, [...]

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New digital publishing imprint specializing in women’s fiction launches

a TeleRead Contributor — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:04:40 +0000

Bookouture is a new digital publishing imprint launched by ex-Harlequin UK marketing controller Oliver Rhodes. Specializing in women’s fiction, Bookouture will publish e-books and print-on-demand globally, paying a 45 percent of net receipts royalty on e-books. “My aim with Bookouture is to focus on creating global author brands and followings—through high-quality editing and particularly through smart, [...]

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Why Everyone Should Care About DRM’s Punishment Of The Visually Impaired

a TeleRead Contributor — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 20:39:12 +0000

Techdirt writes a lot about the problems with DRM, and how inefficient and inconvenient it is. But for millions of visually-impaired people, those “inconveniences” represent something much deeper, and much worse. Somebody who has started writing eloquently about this issue is Rupert Goodwins. He is one of the UK’s most respected technology journalists and also, [...]

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