If you can’t find the right library e-books for your new Kindle, Nook, iPad or other gizmo, you’re not alone. More than 100 patrons of the District of Columbia Public Library were lined up electronically today for 10 e-book copies of The Racketeer, John Grisham’s new novel about the murder of a federal judge. Some 400+ D.C. library users awaited 60 electronic copies of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, the best-selling fiction title on the New York Times list. And a digital version of The Casual Vacancy, by J.K. Rowling, was not even in the catalog of the D.C. public library system. Could a well-stocked national digital library system—in...

The NY Times is reporting that ebook sales of John Grisham's new book The Confession were about one-third of week-one hardcover sales, or about 70,000. Hardcover sales of the book are lower than that of his previous book, The Associate: 160,000 vs. 223,000, and ebook sales pushed the total for the new book ahead of the old. "The e-book sales are astonishing," said Mr. Grisham in an interview. "Would anybody have thought that a year ago? The future has arrived, and we're looking at it." According to the article, Grisham has opposed ebooks, feeling that they would hurt his sales at independent bookstores,...

John Grisham's new book The Confession is now available for pre-order on the Kindle. According to Amazon, this is the first time a Grisham ebook has been available for pre-order. Checking the Amazon bookstore, I see that the print list is $28.95 and the ebook price is $9.99....

  From a press release I received today: International bestselling author John Grisham is making his UK digital debut with the launch of his entire adult backlist as ebooks. The Random House Group is today (May 4th 2010) publishing all 23 of his number one bestsellers - from his first novel A Time To Kill to his latest title Ford County - in ebook format for the first time. They will be available in the UK, EU and Commonwealth (excluding Canada) wherever ebooks are sold. The Random House Group is now home to all John Grisham’s adult works in digital, audio and print...

Another long-standing e-book holdout has finally given in. All 23 novels by popular suspense novelist John Grisham are now available in electronic form via Random House, only 14 months after the initial announcement. On Amazon, new Grisham titles are $9.99, with older titles at $7.99 or less. Kobo (nee Shortcovers) sent an email alerting customers that it has Grisham books for about the same amount (and for two days using the coupon code “grisham” will get $1.50 off of any e-book purchase). They are also at Barnes & Noble, and presumably other places as well. Who...