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Barnes & Noble Partners with UK Publishers to Encourage Literacy

Juli Monroe — Fri, 17 May 2013 00:32:21 +0000

Since the middle of 2011, the London Evening Standard has been focused on increasing literacy in the UK with their “Get London Reading” initiative. To date, they’ve raised £1 million (about $1.5 million) and helped more than 2,000 children. Now Barnes & Noble and Nook Media have joined the campaign, along with several large UK [...]

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Dust jacket envelopes make it easy to donate your books by mail

Dan Eldridge — Thu, 02 May 2013 19:09:25 +0000

A social entrepreneurship company based in Australia, Mailbooks for Good, has recently launched a literary-minded project that combines good design and a simple but strong idea with the joy of philanthropy. The company’s tagline, “Re-gift the gift of reading,” does a decent job of explaining the concept. But here’s the general idea, direct from the [...]

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The Cookbook Store: A Lesson in Book Retail Done Right

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:20:14 +0000

From today’s Toronto Star comes this feel-good story about The Cookbook Store, a Toronto landmark celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. The story also has some good lessons for those who wonder how book retail can continue to survive and thrive in today’s Amazon-and-Internet economy. Some takeaways? Go with the Flow The article mentions that [...]

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Author and TV personality Gail Vaz-Oxlade liberates geo-locked content as blog

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:01:53 +0000

Here’s an interesting story from one of my favorite financial writers, Gail Vaz-Oxlade. The Beloved and I are devotees of her ‘jar’ system for budgeting, and my diligence at applying her simple financial planning ‘rules’ helped me pay off my student loan and simultaneously save over $10,000 in my retirement account in four years. She [...]

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European E-Book Sales Make Up Two Percent of Market

Susan Lulgjuraj — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:00:35 +0000

In the United States, the fight to get more access to e-books seems like a constant struggle. Fights over DRM, getting more e-books into libraries, and giving self-published authors the same credibility as traditionally published authors are just some of the issues we contend with. But it seems we may be the lucky ones. In [...]

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Google Play Books launches in Mexico

Juli Monroe — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:40:58 +0000

Good news for our readers in Mexico. You can now get books through Google Play, in addition to apps. Slashgear kindly reported on it for those of us who can’t read Spanish. (It was announced yesterday on Google+ Mexico.) According to Slashgear: Publishing houses offering content for users in Mexico include Random House Mondadori and [...]

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Check out my first-ever e-book reader!

Joanna Cabot — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:26:27 +0000

I mentioned earlier that it’s been spring cleaning week here. Well, in amongst one of those random boxes of this and that, I unearthed this gem: my first-ever e-book reader! Back when I purchased this puppy for $50 plus shipping off eBay (a fortune!), it was 2005 and I was living in New Zealand for [...]

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Mexico’s illiteracy problem is growing worse

Dan Eldridge — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 20:48:47 +0000

For years now, whenever reports from Mexico have popped up in American news outlets, the stories have almost always revolved around the seemingly endless homicides that are taking place in the northern reaches of the country, where many of Mexico’s infamous drug cartels are based. But an op-ed about one aspect of the Mexican cultural [...]

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An Update on Waterstones Academy

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 21:14:49 +0000

You may remember a post we ran last Monday about Waterstones Academy, a sort of university for retail booksellers that looks as if it may be launching in England sometime later this year. Waterstones, for those of you not familiar with the name, is a UK-based bookstore chain with some 288 locations dotted throughout the UK [...]

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Brazil’s first Read an E-Book Week mobilizes publishers and booksellers

Aggregated Content — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:55:48 +0000

Starting next Sunday, March 3, readers across Brazil will have one more reason to know and experience the digital book—a reason they feel in their pockets. Booksellers, publishers and authors promote the first “Semana do Livro Digital,” a local version of Read an E-Book Week, a traditional online event that’s been running since 2004. [...]

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Thanks to mommy porn, e-book lending is on the rise

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:43:40 +0000

It’s certainly not news that the rising tide of books in the so-called “mommy porn” genre are driving sales of e-books like nothing else that has come before them. But a recent article in Ireland’s Belfast Telegraph explains that erotic fiction is resulting in many more e-book library loans, too. In one Irish community, according to [...]

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At a library in Slovenia, borrowing books is sometimes a mystery

Dan Eldridge — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:10:59 +0000

Another day, another unusually quirky story from the public library space. Today’s story comes from the far-off and seemingly magical outpost of Ljubljana, the capital city of Slovenia. And yes, this story does happen to be about 13 months old—the earliest online reference we found carried a January 2012 deadline. But because it doesn’t seem [...]

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Meet the winners of TOC’s Startup Showcase, Pt 1: Paperight

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 18:16:48 +0000

For those of you who either weren’t there or don’t happen to be familiar with it, the Startup Showcase that took place during last week’s Tools of Change (TOC) Conference in New York was something of a mini-entrepreneurial competition between 10 different publishing-related startup companies. As TOC explains on its website, the competition is designed [...]

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Myanmar Makes History with its First Literary Festival

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 18:15:22 +0000

A truly historical literary event took place last weekend in Southeast Asia that doesn’t seem to have enjoyed quite as much attention from the Western media as it probably should have, and so we figured we’d briefly mention it here: During the first three days of February, Myanmar—the country still known to much of the world as Burma—held it’s first-ever [...]

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Are E-Books Finally Coming to Cuba?

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 04:40:00 +0000

We’ve been covering the international e-book scene for some time here at TeleRead, but Cuba is one county we haven’t had the opportunity to discuss much at all. TeleRead founder David Rothman wrote this thought provoking piece about the Cuban literary landscape back in April 2009. But given that Cuba is a county with virtually no digital publishing [...]

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