Three independent bookstores in NY have filed a class-action lawsuit claiming that independent booksellers will be at risk because of confidential agreements between Amazon and the six largest U.S. publishers. Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza in Albany, Fiction Addiction in Greenville, and Posman [Full Story…]
Transforming NY #Libraries for the #Digital Age
January 11, 2013 at 4:08 pm
More than 40.5 million people visited the NY public libraries last year, more than the combined attendance at professional sporting events and major cultural institutions. According to a report from Center for an Urban Future, libraries are most popular with seniors, foreign-born NYers, at-risk [Full Story…]
#Barnes&Noble Offers Free E-Books for In-Store Customers
December 24, 2012 at 8:09 am
Up until Dec. 24, Barnes & Noble's customers buying an e-book at a physical store can “instant-gift” another e-book for free. Customers bring the books they want to a cashier and provide two email addresses—one for their Nook Book and another for the gift recipient. Barnes & Nobles has [Full Story…]
Simon & Schuster Launches #SelfPublishing Service
November 30, 2012 at 3:56 pm
Simon & Schuster entered the self-publishing market with the launch of Archway, a new service focused on printing and retail distribution. PaidContent reports that Archway acts like a concierge—a publishing guide that coordinates every step of the publishing process. Its fiction publishing [Full Story…]
Ganxy Provides Tools to Sell, Market eBooks #fb12
October 9, 2012 at 1:04 pm
Ganxy, a NY-based startup, launched today at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The startup gives authors and publishers a set of easy-to-use tools for publishing e-books and controlling online marketing. The company was founded in 2009, according to paidContent, and makes it easy for publications to create [Full Story…]
Unglue.it Breathes New Life into Out-of-Print Books
October 1, 2012 at 10:03 am
NJ based Unglue.it is a crowdfunding website devoted to buying the rights to out-of-print books. When enough funds have accumulated, the money is transferred to the rights holders and Unglue.it releases a free digital edition of the book. The site "unglues" books with a creative commons license [Full Story…]
DUMBO Bookstore Rescues Out-of-Print Sci Fi
September 29, 2012 at 12:03 pm
Singularity, a Brooklyn-based bookstore, pulls obscure science fiction out of the past and back into circulation. Each month, the store chooses an out-of-print novel and scans it into an e-book. Recently rescued books include A Plunge into Space by Robert Cromie, originally published in 1890 and the [Full Story…]
NYT Book Review To Publish E-book Best Seller List
November 14, 2010 at 10:11 am
Another sign that digital books are going mainstream has come with the The New York Times' announcement that it would begin publishing e-book best-seller lists in fiction and nonfiction early next year. The Times will collect sales data from publishers and other sources. All Things [Full Story…]
Barnes & Noble’s Nook App Released for Android
July 23, 2010 at 2:33 pm
New York based bookseller Barnes & Noble already has Nook apps for the iPhone and iPad, but yesterday, the company launched an Android app for its e-reading platform. The Android app allows users to browse and shop directly from their phone in Barnes & Noble's eBookstore, which contains [Full Story…]
Wylie Agency Publishes 20 Books on Kindle, Cuts Out Publishers
July 23, 2010 at 9:09 am
The New York based Wylie Agency, a representative of authors such as Norman Mailer, Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and John Updike, has published 20 books through new subsidiary Odyssey Editions and is making them available exclusively in Amazon's Kindle Store, cutting out publishers from a [Full Story…]
HarperCollins Exec. Launches New Startup
August 25, 2009 at 10:30 am
Jane Friedman, the former chief executive of New York based book publisher HarperCollins, has raised $3 million from Bay Area Holdings Inc, a fund of venture capital firm Kohlberg Ventures. The money is for her new company, OpenRoad Integrated Media LLC, which is likely to be developing a [Full Story…]
HarperCollins Appoints eBook Chief
July 28, 2009 at 12:07 pm
New York-based HarperCollins Publishers, a division of News Corp., appointed Margot Schupf to the new role of editorial director, digital publishing, for the Morrow/Avon/Eos group, which is the first digitally focused executive-level position for the publisher. Schupf was an associate publisher at [Full Story…]
CUNY Looking into eTextbooks
July 22, 2009 at 2:21 pm
The City University of New York (CUNY) is considering using eTextbooks and is currently investigating the financial benefits to students. Columbia University already offers eTextbook for select courses and New York University has plans to do so this Fall. New York Post [Full Story…]
Local Online-only Publisher Launching this Fall
July 15, 2009 at 1:45 pm
eBook and print-on-demand publishing company OR Books is due to launch this Fall in New York City. The publisher would be the first general interest online-only publisher, allowing it to bypass sharing revenues with distributors and losing revenue on returned books from store shelves. OR Books [Full Story…]
Collaboration in Book Writing Focus of NYC Startup
April 6, 2009 at 11:01 am
New York-based WEbook allows authors to receive feedback on books they are writing in real time and others to read works by up-and-coming talent. The company is among many trying to define and monetize 21st century publishing. The New York Times [Full Story…]
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