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Is anyone still paying attention to the DOJ/ebook antitrust case?

Brian Howard — Sat, 18 May 2013 16:47:07 +0000

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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Morning Links: Instapaper sold, new products at N.Y. Times, and more

Joanna Cabot — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:45:10 +0000

Instapaper Sold to Betaworks (Good e-Reader) What do readers really want from ebook frontmatter and endmatter? (Futurebook) Revenues Up 22% to 16 Billion at Amazon in First Quarter (Digital Book World) NYT Says New Products to be Profitable by 2014 (Paid Content) Kindle Daily Deals: Die for Me by Cynthia Eden (and 3 others)

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Scott Turow and the Publishing Marketplace

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 20:00:34 +0000

I’ve seen at least four stories today on the Scott Turow editorial in this week’s New York Times (for example, here and here). Turow’s editorial was a mishmash of all sorts of trending stories, offering his comments on used books, libraries, the Kirtsaeng decision, Amazon, and who knows what else. He has been derided, and rightly [...]

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Scott Turow describes “The Slow Death of the American Author”

Susan Lulgjuraj — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:00:01 +0000

Libraries. The Internet. Pirate sites. According to author Scott Turow’s recent op-ed piece for the New York Times, these things are all to blame for the “Slow Death of the American Author.” Best-selling novelist and Author’s Guild president Scott Turow discusses how all of these entities are creating an environment where authors will make less [...]

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New York Times: Flipboard or Native App?

Juli Monroe — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:38:49 +0000

Last week The New York Times gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse: 12 weeks of digital access for $5. No, that’s not $5 per week. That’s $5 for the entire 12-week period. See why I couldn’t refuse? I’d been reading the Times‘ Top News on Flipboard for months, and I knew I liked it [...]

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The Media and the Barbell Problem

Joanna Cabot — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:55:01 +0000

I read a great article today by Matthew Ingram where he explains the current difficulties facing the news media as a ‘barbell’ problem–entities on either side of the barbell are going to be just fine, he argues. It’s the people in the middle who are going to get squeezed! Ingram’s theory is this: If you are a [...]

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New York Times Now Available on Flipboard for Android and Kindle Fire

Juli Monroe — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:02:58 +0000

Flipboard made my list of great productivity apps in a previous post I wrote for GadgeTell (one of TeleRead’s sister sites), but until today I only used it on my iPad. Why? Because the New York Times was only available in the iOS version. Not only that, but previously, if you logged into Flipboard on Android, you lost Times access on your [...]

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TeleRead selected as an Essential Site for Voracious Readers

Dan Eldridge — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 21:38:35 +0000

TeleRead was the recipient of a rather flattering honor earlier this week. On Wednesday, we were informed that we’d been featured on the just-published list of 100 Essential Sites for Voracious Readers, which is curated by Masters in English, “a site dedicated to helping students find the right graduate-level English program.” “We built this list for [...]

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Breakout Books in the App Store highlights self-published e-books

Aggregated Content — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:00:51 +0000

By Arnold Zafra In a move to encourage more self-published authors to make their masterpieces available on the iBookstore, Apple has created an entirely new section, Breakout Books, where self-published e-books will be displayed prominently. According to Apple, Breakout Books is aimed at helping readers find the next reading sensation by way of this collection of [...]

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The NY Times creates the first-ever Kindle Paperwhite infographic

Dan Eldridge — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 21:01:17 +0000

Did anyone else notice the fantastic Kindle Paperwhite infographic that ran in the New York Times‘ Business section on December 26? It appears to have been a dual effort on the part of tech reporter Brian X. Chen and graphics editor Frank O’Connell; the latter put together an equally gorgeous infographic about the Lytro camera back [...]

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John Lagerling on Google’s Nexus strategy

Dan Eldridge — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 01:53:54 +0000

Last Friday, the New York Times‘ Bits blog ran an interesting Q&A-style interview with John Lagerling, Google’s Android director of business development, “about the company’s strategy with the Nexus brand, one that revolves around lower prices,” as the interview’s intro explains. Lagerling, as it happens, was involved with negotiating the new Nexus line’s decidedly low price [...]

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Lessons from Hollywood: Resist change at your own peril?

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 15:30:20 +0000

Tech Dirt ran a great article last week (which was a reaction to this New York Times article) about the struggles Hollywood is facing as it attempts to ‘remain relevant’ while important content seems to be moving to cheaper, faster-to-market television. From the article: “The industry really only has itself to blame for continuing to churn out expensive remakes and [...]

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Is Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore the first novel for the TeleRead generation?

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:23:22 +0000

“Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore is a story about a young man who loses his job as part of the Great Recession of the early part of the 21st century, and gets a new one working a night-shift at a 24-hour bookstore in San Francisco. He quickly discovers that there’s much more than meets the eye to [...]

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How important are paper books?

Dan Eldridge — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 02:26:40 +0000

To be honest, I don’t really have much to say about Justin Hollander’s anti-ebooks op-ed that showed up in the New York Times on Tuesday. But because its main focus was Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s recent proclamation that “over the next few years, [paper] textbooks should be obsolete,” I figured it was an essay the e-book community should probably [...]

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Now On Demand: All Sessions from Publishing Business Virtual Conference 2012

a TeleRead Contributor — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 01:27:45 +0000

By Brian Howard RELIVE THE 2012 PUBLISHING BUSINESS VIRTUAL CONFERENCE Free publishing resources now available on demand, for a limited time What were you doing last Thursday? No matter. We here at the Publishing Business Group were putting on another installment of the Publishing Business Virtual Conference and Expo. Whether you were online with us or not, [...]

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