TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » Huffington Post http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 24 May 2013 16:15:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Class Action Lawsuit Against Amazon and Publishers Misses the Mark http://www.teleread.com/amazon/class-action-lawsuit-against-amazon-and-publishers-misses-the-mark/ http://www.teleread.com/amazon/class-action-lawsuit-against-amazon-and-publishers-misses-the-mark/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:52:27 +0000 Juli Monroe http://www.teleread.com/?p=79481 According to the Huffington Post, three independent bookstores are filing a class action suit against Amazon and the “Big Six” publishers. Alyson Decker of Blecher & Collins PC, lead counsel acting for the bookstores, described DRM as “a problem that affects many independent bookstores.” She said the complaint is still in the process of being served [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/amazon/class-action-lawsuit-against-amazon-and-publishers-misses-the-mark/feed/ 5 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 Are you drowning in e-books? Here’s a solution. http://www.teleread.com/writing/are-you-drowning-in-e-books-heres-a-solution/ http://www.teleread.com/writing/are-you-drowning-in-e-books-heres-a-solution/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:04:52 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=71821 Those of you who work professionally in the publishing biz have probably been reading, hearing and talking about the art and science of ‘e-book discovery’ for years now; it’s been a slowing growing industry trend for as long as I can remember. But unless I’ve suddenly been stricken with a nasty case of Baader-Meinhof Syndrome, the so-called [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/writing/are-you-drowning-in-e-books-heres-a-solution/feed/ 1 Stigma of self-publishing has largely gone away http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/stigma-of-self-publishing-has-largely-gone-away/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/stigma-of-self-publishing-has-largely-gone-away/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 03:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/stigma-of-self-publishing-has-largely-gone-away/ On IndieReader, Terry Giuliano Long has an interesting, long post about how self-publishing’s stigma has decreased over the last few years—leaving some traditional authors feeling threatened. Long notes that a number of brick and mortar booksellers are starting to make room for self-published authors in their stores, leading to traditionally-published authors complaining about the effects [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/stigma-of-self-publishing-has-largely-gone-away/feed/ 3 Newspapers could survive advertising declines by turning to e-books http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/newspapers-could-survive-advertising-declines-by-turning-to-e-books/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/newspapers-could-survive-advertising-declines-by-turning-to-e-books/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/newspapers-could-survive-advertising-declines-by-turning-to-e-books/ How are newspapers going to survive the e-revolution? Dan Pacheco of BookBrewer thinks he has the answer: e-books. He points to the recent Huffington Post decision to start organizing and curating years of journalism work on particular subjects and releasing it in the form of e-books. E-book revenues, he suggests, could supplement flagging on-line ad [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/newspapers-could-survive-advertising-declines-by-turning-to-e-books/feed/ 6 Huffington Post releases first ebook http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/huffington-post-releases-first-ebook/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/huffington-post-releases-first-ebook/#comments Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:58:07 +0000 Paul Biba http://www.teleread.com/?p=59569 From The Bookseller: The Huffington Post has turned digital publisher, releasing its first e-book, A People’s History of the Great Recession by reporter Arthur Delaney, yesterday (7th September). The title is available on the UK Kindle store priced £3.51, and available for $4.99 on the Amazon.com Kindle store, the Barnes & Noble site, Nook Bookstore, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/huffington-post-releases-first-ebook/feed/ 0 Is free on-line writing devaluing paid prose? http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/is-free-on-line-writing-devaluing-paid-prose/ http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/is-free-on-line-writing-devaluing-paid-prose/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 05:04:05 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/is-free-on-line-writing-devaluing-paid-prose/ A few days ago, NPR carried an interesting story looking at the sale of the Huffington Post to AOL. As David Carr pointed out, much of the value of the $315 million sale was created by bloggers working for free. When you look at personal blogs and social media, you might see random people telling [...]

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