Peter Kafka in Dive Into Media on February 5 at 8:34 am PT
The digital book start-up is trying all sorts of interesting things. But a judicious dose of sex should get your attention — it certainly did at
D: Dive Into Media last week.
Katherine Boehret in The Digital Solution on January 24 at 3:26 pm PT
Katie looks at Subtext, a free iPad app designed to enable and encourage conversations among readers within digital books themselves.
Peter Kafka in Media on December 6, 2011 at 4:11 am PT
Apple’s entry into the e-book business hasn’t been a huge success, but it has still registered with European antitrust regulators.
Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 20, 2011 at 1:53 pm PT
Mark Cuban has 335,000 friends on Facebook and 760,000 followers on Twitter. Monday, the Internet billionaire and owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team will test just how friendly those fans really are.
I hate them. It’s like making believe there’s another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of sex. There isn’t another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.
Maurice Sendak, to Guardian reporter Emma Brockes, about how much he hates e-books
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on October 6, 2011 at 7:25 am PT
Steve Jobs’s death has prompted Simon & Schuster to move up the publication date for his
much-anticipated biography by Walter Issacson. The CBS-owned publishing unit has moved up the release date for “
Steve Jobs” from Nov. 21 to Oct. 24. Not surprisingly, preorders for the book are skyrocketing, and the title now tops bestseller lists at both
Amazon and
Apple’s iTunes.
Sure, I signed a couple of iPad covers, Kindle covers. I’ve got no problem with that. But just because some people like their e-readers doesn’t mean we should sweep all the remaining paperbacks in a pile and strike a match. Maybe bookstores are no longer 30,000 square feet, but they are selling books.
Author Ann Patchett about her recent book tour in Sunday’s New York Times.
Liz Gannes in Social on August 31, 2011 at 4:13 pm PT
As e-books become popular, there are increasing opportunities to share and personalize the digital reading experience. That’s where the upcoming Readmill iPad app and social network come in.
Peter Kafka in Media on July 29, 2011 at 2:40 pm PT
Vanity Fair gets a compilation into the Kindle and Nook stores: Twenty previously published stories for $4, heavy on the Michael Wolff.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on June 17, 2011 at 12:19 pm PT
Barnes & Noble’s
newest Nook has fewer features than its predecessor, as well as many other rivals. That’s great, says
Consumer Reports, which has crowned the new $139 device its favorite e-book reader. It’s the first time the magazine has put an e-reader made by anyone other than Amazon at the top of its rankings.
