Commercial ebook publishing and distribution is a crowded space: Amazon, Apple, Google, Barnes and Noble and others each have stores and devices for digital books, which have been seeing consistent…
Livefyre, which you may notice provides the commenting system we use here at The Next Web (this is our full disclosure), announced this week that is has launched version 2.0…
Joseph Robert Lewis is a writer. He’s not your local Starbucks writer in hipster clothes, staring lovingly at his Macbook Pro and failing to break 100 words a day. He’s…
The Internet has made the marginal cost of data transmission zero for all intents and purposes. This change didn’t come overnight, of course, but in pieces over the past two…
Was there a Kindle or iPad under your Christmas tree? Statistics point to yes! Publisher’s Weekly is reporting preliminary estimates from the Association of American Publishers that e-book sales from 16…
At first it was just an experiment. Blake Crouch, a mystery and suspense novelist, was not lacking for a traditional book publisher. His last few novels were put out by…
Yahoo has announced it is entering the ‘Digital newsstand’ bunsiness with an app called Livestand, which is due to launch on iPad and Android tablets soon. To us, it all…
Reading on the web is becoming increasingly difficult. As it becomes harder to monetize from publishing on the web, most free publishers have adopted an aggressive advertising approach. Adverts are…
News is changing – quickly. The way it’s researched, the way it’s reported and the way we access it are all evolving rapidly. 2010 could well be remembered as a…
Following on from our article reporting that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange had signed a book deal with both UK and US publishers to write his autobiography, we can now tell…
As first reported by Britain’s Guardian newspaper, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has sold his memoirs to two publishing houses, Canongate in Britain and Knopf in the United States. Assange, who…
Hi, I’m Tris and I write books. And I’m pretty excited about the coming age of ebooks and the potential of Google Editions. According to the WSJ, Google Editions could…
Amazon loves to show off when it is doing well, and the new Kindle is affording the giant the opportunity to strut its stuff up and down the internet’s streets….
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