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Writing and Publishing

That's so its customers can have the opportunity to try ebooks, and more than 11,000 titles. The UK company said that it would be launching its own ebook store in the...

Pub Rants, written by a literary agent, has a post today that let's us into what's going on in the publishing industry. A couple of items: Unlike times past publishers will...

We've seen instances of publishers holding back the release of an ebook by a best selling author, now we see the reverse from this imprint of Random House UK. The...

In a move that is sure to make traditional publishers even more nervous than they currently are, Book View Cafe has just gone live. The Cafe is a self publishing...

A Halloween giveaway. Here's the press release I just received: Ebook lovers will be getting a special treat this Halloween. On October 31, Gryphonwood Press, along withAustralian-based Blade Red Press, will...

That's what Publishing Perspectives is reporting. Macmillan is the parent of Tor, St. Martin's, Farrar Strauss, Henry Holt and others. The article states that the "usual" ebook royalty is...

That's what Kirk Biglione says in his MediaLoper article. According to Kirk, Publishers Lunch reported that many large publishers won't participate in B&N's LendMe program for fear that lending will...

According to a KPMG survey, the Bookseller reports, 4% of the British population has read an ebook.  The bad news, however, is that 70% spent nothing on the book.  In further...

Editor's Note: The following is from Sue Polanka's No Shelf Required blog.  Reprinted with permission.  Sue is Head of Reference, Wright State University Libraries, Chair, Editorial Board, Reference Books Bulletin,  Paul...

Mobcast has struck a deal with Editions Harlequin to distribute their ebook catalog on GoSpoken.com making French language titles available on the RIM, Nokia and Sony Ericsson devices that use the...

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Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...

TeleRead.com is now a static archival site, but we're very much alive at TeleRead.org. Big thanks to Nate Hoffelder of The-Digital-Reader.com, who teamed up on the preservation project with ReclaimHosting.com.