TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Brian Howard http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Mon, 20 May 2013 20:08:07 +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/legal/is-anyone-still-paying-attention-to-the-dojebook-antitrust-case/feed/ 4 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/discoverability/bookscout-speaking-with-svp-of-digital-marketplace-development-amanda-close-about-random-houses-new-discoverability-app/feed/ 7 A Nook Owner Tests the Kindle Platform; How HuffPo Is Making Money Off Comments http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/monday-musings-a-nook-owner-tiptoes-onto-the-kindle-platform-making-money-off-comments/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/monday-musings-a-nook-owner-tiptoes-onto-the-kindle-platform-making-money-off-comments/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:00:29 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=77675   By Brian Howard and James Sturdivant I own a Nook Simple Touch. Maybe it’s because I root for underdogs or maybe it’s because I chafe at platform lock-in and proprietary file formats, but I’ve been quite happy with life on the B&N ebook platform. Then, on Friday, Amazon announced its Stephen King Kindle Single exclusive, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/monday-musings-a-nook-owner-tiptoes-onto-the-kindle-platform-making-money-off-comments/feed/ 4 Amazon Reviews and The Wisdom of the Mob http://www.teleread.com/amazon/amazon-reviews-and-the-wisdom-of-the-mob/ http://www.teleread.com/amazon/amazon-reviews-and-the-wisdom-of-the-mob/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 20:33:42 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=77326   By Brian Howard It’s official. The old trope “There’s no such thing as bad press” can be retired. For good. Witness the campaign against Randall Sullivan’s Michael Jackson bio Untouchable: The Strange Life and Tragic Death of Michael Jackson. As reported in The New York Times, Sullivan’s book focuses on the superstar’s last years and, despite being characterized as [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/digital-book-world/show-notes-digital-book-world-2013/feed/ 0 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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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/new-study-is-increased-ipad-adoption-a-death-knell-for-print-hardly-says-michael-norris-of-simbas-new-report/feed/ 17 A Unique E-Book Concept Merges Dead Tree Pulp With the Web http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/a-unique-e-book-concept-merges-dead-tree-pulp-with-the-web/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/a-unique-e-book-concept-merges-dead-tree-pulp-with-the-web/#comments Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:30:17 +0000 Aggregated Content http://www.teleread.com/?p=74504   By Brian Howard | for Book Business Fast Company has an article and video today on Polish art student Waldek Węgrzyn‘s ebook/pbook hybrid, an El Lissitzky-inspired project for his masters degree at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. Węgrzyn’s project, a more or less hardwired physical book that interacts with a digital interface as it’s [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/a-unique-e-book-concept-merges-dead-tree-pulp-with-the-web/feed/ 0 Are Discoverability and DRM Mortal Enemies? http://www.teleread.com/drm/are-discoverability-and-drm-mortal-enemies/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/are-discoverability-and-drm-mortal-enemies/#comments Sat, 06 Oct 2012 03:20:51 +0000 a TeleRead Contributor http://www.teleread.com/?p=72375 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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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/are-discoverability-and-drm-mortal-enemies/feed/ 0 Eric Hellman of Unglue.it on e-books, the creative commons, passionate authors and life after Amazon http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/eric-hellman-of-unglue-it-on-e-books-the-creative-commons-passionate-authors-and-life-after-amazon/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/eric-hellman-of-unglue-it-on-e-books-the-creative-commons-passionate-authors-and-life-after-amazon/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2012 20:49:19 +0000 a TeleRead Contributor http://www.teleread.com/?p=72219 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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