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"The Casual Vacancy" by J.K. Rowling to published late September 2012

Apr 12 2012: Little, Brown UK has announced the title and publication date of JK Rowling's first novel for adults. The Casual Vacancy, described as a "blackly comic" novel centered around a small town in which everyone is at war with each other that's exacerbated by the unexpected ...

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Hachette, HarperCollins and S&S settle price-fixing allegations.

Apr 11 2012: Three publishers—Hachette, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster—have agreed to a proposed settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice to settle federal claims of price fixing regarding e-books. Publishers Weekly reported today on the broad strokes of the deal, and ...

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Will 2013 be the year of the glowing Kindle?

Apr 10 2012: Back in 2010 Amazon quietly booked a Swedish company that is said to be the world leaders in "light-guide" technology. It is this technology that Techcrunch predicts will be behind a new generation of glowing Kindles next year.

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Harper Lee and Aldous Huxley once again among most challenged titles in US libraries

Apr 09 2012: The American Library Association has released its list of the Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2011. The Top Ten list includes Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee and The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

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One-fifth of Americans read an ebook in 2011

Apr 06 2012: According to the Pew Research Center Study one in five American adults read an e-book in 2011 and 43% read at least one long-form digital text (e.g. an ebook or magazine). 88% of those who read an e-book during the past year also read a printed book.

Among the 14% ...

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UK tax authorities investigate Amazon due to $5bn in sales but no corporation tax paid

Apr 06 2012: Amazon.co.uk, Britain's biggest online retailer (responsible for one in every four books sold in the UK, to name just one product category in its enormous repertoire), is being investigated by British tax authorities as it generated sales of more than $5bn in the UK in ...

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Google to end its ebooks reseller program worldwide

Apr 05 2012: Google has informed the American Booksellers Association and Powell's Books that it will end its Google eBooks reseller program worldwide. A few weeks ago it had seemed as if independent booksellers were getting a reprieve when Google reinstated some affiliate stores ...

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New Worldreader app for 'dumb phones' hopes to bring ebooks to millions in the developing world

Apr 03 2012: US non-profit literacy agency Worldreader has beta-launched an app for non-smartphones in order to distribute free e-books into sub-Saharan Africa and other parts of the developing world.

The Worldreader app uses cloud-based data compression technology to enable any ...

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