TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » The Guardian http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 18 May 2013 18:30:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Tim Waterstone wants to avoid the slush pile with Read Petite, his new digital imprint http://www.teleread.com/startups/tim-waterstone-wants-to-avoid-the-slush-pile-in-his-new-digital-imprint/ http://www.teleread.com/startups/tim-waterstone-wants-to-avoid-the-slush-pile-in-his-new-digital-imprint/#comments Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:29:54 +0000 Susan Lulgjuraj http://www.teleread.com/?p=83121 Tim Waterstone is embarking on a new e-book project. It kind of involves owning a bookstore again. Sort of. Waterstone talked about his new venture, Read Petite, with The Guardian this week. It will be officially announced to the public at the London Book Fair next week. Read Petite is a digital imprint for short-form e-books. [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/startups/tim-waterstone-wants-to-avoid-the-slush-pile-in-his-new-digital-imprint/feed/ 0 Thanks to E-Books Sales in the UK, Bloomsbury Looks Bullish http://www.teleread.com/publishing/thanks-to-e-books-sales-in-the-uk-bloomsbury-publishing-looks-bullish/ http://www.teleread.com/publishing/thanks-to-e-books-sales-in-the-uk-bloomsbury-publishing-looks-bullish/#comments Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:39:55 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=76929 Along with the Financial Times, The Telegraph, and The Guardian, just about every UK-based newspaper that covers the publishing industry ran the sort of ‘E-Books Will Save Us!’ story yesterday that seems forehead-slappingly obvious at first glance … and yet is nevertheless rather comforting to read—especially considering that the good news has been officially confirmed with [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/news-roundup-2/morning-links-overdrive-3m-kick-it-into-gear-for-2013/feed/ 0 Does the Publishing Industry Need to be Saved? http://www.teleread.com/publishing/does-the-publishing-industry-need-to-be-saved/ http://www.teleread.com/publishing/does-the-publishing-industry-need-to-be-saved/#comments Sun, 21 Oct 2012 17:07:10 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=73439 It’s one of those questions that those of us who work in the publishing industry could easily lob back and forth between us forever: Does the publishing industry need to be saved?  Maybe. Probably. Certainly, to some degree, something needs to happen. But when it comes to deciding what needs to be done, or how to do [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/books/book-bloggers-are-they-killing-lit-criticism-or-saving-it/feed/ 2 In the UK, e-book sales are up, and (some) book prices are down http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/in-the-uk-e-book-sales-are-up-and-some-book-prices-are-down/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/in-the-uk-e-book-sales-are-up-and-some-book-prices-are-down/#comments Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:33:19 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=71180 Yesterday, The Telegraph reported that digital sales of fiction titles in the UK were up an impressive 188 percent (by value) in the first six months of 2012, when compared to the same period last year. As for digital sales of nonfiction e-books, they’ve raised 128 percent in the UK. Sales of children’s e-books, meanwhile, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/in-the-uk-e-book-sales-are-up-and-some-book-prices-are-down/feed/ 0 Squatters reopen a shuttered London library http://www.teleread.com/library/squatters-reopen-a-shuttered-london-library/ http://www.teleread.com/library/squatters-reopen-a-shuttered-london-library/#comments Sun, 16 Sep 2012 01:31:50 +0000 Dan Eldridge http://www.teleread.com/?p=70838 There’s a fantastic news story brewing in England at the moment, and if you’re a fervent supporter of public libraries, you’ll love this one: Following a series of budget cuts, a North London library that was known locally as a beloved community resource had to close its doors recently. Eight resourceful members of the Occupy London [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/library/squatters-reopen-a-shuttered-london-library/feed/ 0 Reader Privacy Under Threat in the Digital Age http://www.teleread.com/legal/reader-privacy-under-threat-in-the-digital-age/ http://www.teleread.com/legal/reader-privacy-under-threat-in-the-digital-age/#comments Sun, 02 Sep 2012 17:09:21 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=69660 There was an interesting overview of reader privacy issues in this week’s Guardian. I wonder if most e-book readers have given any thought to the issue. I bet it hasn’t even crossed their minds that the customer profile Amazon or Kobo or Sony might have on them—detailing what they’ve purchased, and when—would be valuable to [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/guardian-gives-android-app-away-free-charges-for-ios-version/feed/ 0 Unredacted Wikileaks cables leak due to Guardian reporter publishing password in book http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/unredacted-wikileaks-cables-leak-due-to-guardian-reporter-publishing-password-in-book/ http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/unredacted-wikileaks-cables-leak-due-to-guardian-reporter-publishing-password-in-book/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/unredacted-wikileaks-cables-leak-due-to-guardian-reporter-publishing-password-in-book/ Wikileaks, emblematic of the changing face of on-line journalism, is in the news again lately as a huge load of files have leaked—but this time they were leaked despite Wikileaks instead of (directly) because of it. The controversy arises because these leaked cables haven’t been redacted to remove the names of sources who could potentially [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/unredacted-wikileaks-cables-leak-due-to-guardian-reporter-publishing-password-in-book/feed/ 0 The Guardian’s 100 greatest non-fiction books http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/the-guardians-100-greatest-non-fiction-books/ http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/the-guardians-100-greatest-non-fiction-books/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 15:07:00 +0000 Paul Biba http://www.teleread.com/?p=57000 I wonder how many of them are in ebook format. I guess I’ll find out as I go searching. Here’s part of the list. You can find the full 100 here. Travel The Travels of Ibn Battuta by Ibn Battuta (1355) The Arab world’s greatest medieval traveller sets down his memories of journeys throughout the [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/the-guardians-100-greatest-non-fiction-books/feed/ 1 UK papers offer opposing views on e-book piracy http://www.teleread.com/drm/uk-papers-offer-opposing-views-on-e-book-piracy/ http://www.teleread.com/drm/uk-papers-offer-opposing-views-on-e-book-piracy/#comments Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:35:51 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/drm/uk-papers-offer-opposing-views-on-e-book-piracy/ Russell Davies has a piece in the Guardian reacting to the Metro’s somewhat breathless denunciation of piracy as a “colossal threat” last week. The Metro piece frets that piracy could cost authors and publishers millions of pounds, and “be as devastating as illegal file-sharing was for the music industry.” (Because we all know how bereft [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/drm/uk-papers-offer-opposing-views-on-e-book-piracy/feed/ 3 UK writers call for new anti-piracy campaign http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/uk-writers-call-for-new-anti-piracy-campaign/ http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/uk-writers-call-for-new-anti-piracy-campaign/#comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:25:33 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/uk-writers-call-for-new-anti-piracy-campaign/ It seems that without exception, any time someone notices e-book piracy, it’s suddenly a huge problem, instead of having built over nearly twenty years during which most publishers and authors who were not Harlan Ellison did not find it worth their time to bother doing anything about. An article in the Guardian today is no [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/uk-writers-call-for-new-anti-piracy-campaign/feed/ 11 Are printed newspapers dying or not? http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/are-printed-newspapers-dying-or-not/ http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/are-printed-newspapers-dying-or-not/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:43:55 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/are-printed-newspapers-dying-or-not/ Is (news)print dying? It’s an interesting question, and the answer seems to depend on who you believe. On The Guardian, former editor Peter Preston writes that perhaps newspapers don’t have that much to fear from the Internet after all. But "in the UK at least, there is no such correlation", reports the number-crunching analyst Jim [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/are-printed-newspapers-dying-or-not/feed/ 4 The Times paywall: Three points of view http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/the-times-paywall-three-points-of-view/ http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/the-times-paywall-three-points-of-view/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:15:00 +0000 Chris Meadows http://www.teleread.com/2010/07/06/the-times-paywall-three-points-of-view/ Since The Times’s website just went from registration-wall to full-fledged paywall, the articles about paywall journalism are coming out in force. Here is a trio of particularly interesting ones. On the “Strange Attractor” blog, Kevin Charman-Anderson goes into the economics of print versus web publication and advertising. He notes that printed papers cost a lot [...]

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