TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Book Business http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 22 May 2013 13:15:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Is anyone still paying attention to the DOJ/ebook antitrust case? http://www.teleread.com/legal/is-anyone-still-paying-attention-to-the-dojebook-antitrust-case/ http://www.teleread.com/legal/is-anyone-still-paying-attention-to-the-dojebook-antitrust-case/#comments Sat, 18 May 2013 16:47:07 +0000 Brian Howard http://www.teleread.com/?p=85257 I guess I’d forgotten. Now that all the the publishing players have settled, abandoning agency pricing and returning to the wholesale slums, the DOJ/e-book antitrust case, which popped up again in everyone’s news feeds this week, feels a little anticlimactic. The DOJ, perhaps simply because it’s what it found, or perhaps because there’s no one [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/bookstore/reports-of-the-bookstores-death-are-greatly-exaggerated/feed/ 1 Feeling Rudderless with the Loss of O’Reilly’s TOC? Consider This http://www.teleread.com/events/feeling-rudderless-with-the-loss-of-oreillys-toc-consider-this/ http://www.teleread.com/events/feeling-rudderless-with-the-loss-of-oreillys-toc-consider-this/#comments Sat, 11 May 2013 01:37:05 +0000 Lynn Rosen http://www.teleread.com/?p=84762 Much conversation and virtual space has been devoted over the last week to the announcement by O’Reilly that they are discontinuing the Tools of Change conference. The announcement stunned many, and lamentation abounded at the loss of what had been, for many, a forum for hearing new ideas and, equally important, an arena for networking [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/events/feeling-rudderless-with-the-loss-of-oreillys-toc-consider-this/feed/ 0 Look Who’s Talking: Book Business’ New Video Chat Series http://www.teleread.com/events/look-whos-talking-book-business-new-video-chat-series/ http://www.teleread.com/events/look-whos-talking-book-business-new-video-chat-series/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 00:34:53 +0000 Lynn Rosen http://www.teleread.com/?p=84599 Last week, NAPCO‘s Publishing Media Group launched its new video chat series, Literally Speaking Publisher Chats. The chats will take place every Friday at 11 a.m. EST, and I will be speaking to a variety of publishing people. The fun new video platform Shindig is hosting our events. On Friday, May 3, I spoke with Beth Kephart, an [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/events/look-whos-talking-book-business-new-video-chat-series/feed/ 0 On my honeymoon, I fell in love all over again… with my e-reader (and my wife, of course) http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/on-my-honeymoon-i-fell-in-love-all-over-again-with-my-e-reader-and-my-wife-of-course/ http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/on-my-honeymoon-i-fell-in-love-all-over-again-with-my-e-reader-and-my-wife-of-course/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 19:30:18 +0000 Brian Howard http://www.teleread.com/?p=84304 I hope you’ll pardon me as I jog my ocean air- and sun-addled brain back into something resembling normal functioning with a story from my just-ended honeymoon. On Saturday, my newly minted wife and I got back from Tulum, Mexico, where we spent a week on the beach relaxing and—if we’re being completely honest—recovering from [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ereaders/on-my-honeymoon-i-fell-in-love-all-over-again-with-my-e-reader-and-my-wife-of-course/feed/ 0 How Has the Tablet Changed Your Life? Your Business? Your General Disposition? http://www.teleread.com/tablet/how-has-the-tablet-changed-your-life-your-business-your-general-disposition/ http://www.teleread.com/tablet/how-has-the-tablet-changed-your-life-your-business-your-general-disposition/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:10:23 +0000 Brian Howard http://www.teleread.com/?p=83428 It’s hard to believe it’s already/only been three years since Apple introduced its category defining iPad. On the one hand, it seems like only yesterday. On the other hand, for those of us with tablet computers of one stripe or another, it’s hard to imagine life before our new constant companions—in the same way those [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/tablet/how-has-the-tablet-changed-your-life-your-business-your-general-disposition/feed/ 2 Feeling Bookish: CEO Ardy Khazaei on the real aims—and real benefits—of the publisher joint venture http://www.teleread.com/books/feeling-bookish-ceo-ardy-khazaei-on-the-real-aims-and-real-benefits-of-the-publisher-joint-venture/ http://www.teleread.com/books/feeling-bookish-ceo-ardy-khazaei-on-the-real-aims-and-real-benefits-of-the-publisher-joint-venture/#comments Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:45:18 +0000 Brian Howard http://www.teleread.com/?p=81588 While it’s odd to think of an organization backed by the  Penguin, Hachette and Simon & Schuster as a startup, Bookish, the new book-recommendation and -discovery site is essentially that. After two years in development under three CEOs, Bookish is now a reality, a place where users can get recommendations—based on titles or groups of titles [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/books/feeling-bookish-ceo-ardy-khazaei-on-the-real-aims-and-real-benefits-of-the-publisher-joint-venture/feed/ 1 What would become of an independent Nook? http://www.teleread.com/barnes-noble/what-would-become-of-an-independent-nook/ http://www.teleread.com/barnes-noble/what-would-become-of-an-independent-nook/#comments Thu, 07 Mar 2013 02:35:38 +0000 Brian Howard http://www.teleread.com/?p=80875 *This article originally appeared on the website of Book Business, a TeleRead sister publication. While predicting doom for Nook, as Book Business columnist Michael Weinstein put it, has become the favored pastime of the book and tech press of late, it’s hard not to read the news of B&N Chairman Leonard S. Riggio’s bid to purchase the chain’s [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/digital-book-world/show-notes-digital-book-world-2013/feed/ 0 It Ain’ Necessarily So: Predicting the end of print, and e-ink, and B&N, has become the new national pastime. http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/it-ain-necessarily-so-predicting-the-end-of-print-and-e-ink-and-bn-has-become-the-new-national-pastime/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/it-ain-necessarily-so-predicting-the-end-of-print-and-e-ink-and-bn-has-become-the-new-national-pastime/#comments Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:00:16 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=77149 By Michael Weinstein The returns are in on sales for Amazon and Barnes & Noble from the holiday sales period. Remember that “surge” I mentioned in my last blog post? Like the song says, “It ain’t necessarily so.” On the one hand, Amazon had its biggest holiday season ever, with the Kindle Fire being it’s number one [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/it-ain-necessarily-so-predicting-the-end-of-print-and-e-ink-and-bn-has-become-the-new-national-pastime/feed/ 3 The future of publishing is now, and it’s being shaped by mobile and social http://www.teleread.com/events/the-future-of-publishing-is-now-and-its-being-shaped-by-mobile-and-social/ http://www.teleread.com/events/the-future-of-publishing-is-now-and-its-being-shaped-by-mobile-and-social/#comments Fri, 14 Dec 2012 04:45:05 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=75599 By Brian Howard “I won’t be talking much about the future, and I won’t use the word ‘publishing’ very often.” A funny way to begin a talk called “A Futuristic View of the Publishing Industry,” but Publishing Technology COO Randy Petway’s take on the topic at yesterday’s Publishing Technology Executive Exchange at the wine cellar of Del Frisco’s on [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/events/the-future-of-publishing-is-now-and-its-being-shaped-by-mobile-and-social/feed/ 2 B&N: Nook sales ‘doubled’ over Black Friday weekend http://www.teleread.com/barnes-noble/bn-nook-sales-doubled-over-black-friday-weekend/ http://www.teleread.com/barnes-noble/bn-nook-sales-doubled-over-black-friday-weekend/#comments Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:30:35 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=75206   By Brian Howard | for Book Business Ah, two can play this game! There’s a lot of noise in the news feed today about Barnes & Noble’s earnings report (share price down, but down significantly less compared to last year; retail sales flat; Nook sales up). But what’s “interesting” (read: annoying, for journalists anyway) is that B&N [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/barnes-noble/bn-nook-sales-doubled-over-black-friday-weekend/feed/ 0 Is Increased iPad Adoption a Death Knell for Print? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/new-study-is-increased-ipad-adoption-a-death-knell-for-print-hardly-says-michael-norris-of-simbas-new-report/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/new-study-is-increased-ipad-adoption-a-death-knell-for-print-hardly-says-michael-norris-of-simbas-new-report/#comments Fri, 30 Nov 2012 02:44:03 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=75151 By Brian Howard | for Book Business New Study: Is Increased iPad Adoption a Death Knell for Print? Hardly, says Michael Norris of Simba’s new report. Simba Information’s new report out this week is titled “The iPad and Its Owner 2013.” But given its findings—including that 1 in 5 U.S. adults owns an iPad, along [...]

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