WSJ best-seller lists to include e-books

WSJ best-seller lists to include e-books
Wall Street Journal
AP NEW YORK — The Wall Street Journal has an agreement with Nielsen BookScan to publish best-seller lists that include both physical books and e-sales. Since 2009, Nielsen has provided the journal with lists based solely on hardcover and paperbacks. ...
On the death of book publishers and other middlemen
GigaOm
By Mathew Ingram Oct. 28, 2011, 9:37am PT No Comments Hot on the heels of Amazon signing publishing deals with authors, and thus doing an end-run around their publisher partners, another major e-reader company says it plans to do the same: Kobo is ...
Grisham talks ambulance chasers, eBooks
CNN
CNN: As an author who has sold millions of books, what do you think about the emergence of eBooks? Have you tried using an eReader? Grisham: Amazon sent me a Kindle two years ago as a gift. I read a couple of books on it. It was an enjoyable experience ...
Hyperink, a Content Farm That Grows Books
BusinessWeek
Hyperink pitches itself as a way to achieve the same kind of massive scale for publishing expert advice. It's raised $1.2 million from venture capital firms, including Andreessen Horowitz and Lerer Ventures. Hyperink has been in trial mode and selling ...
Graphic Books Best Sellers: Happy Halloween
New York Times (blog)
By GEORGE GENE GUSTINES Our paperback list has the perfect book for this trick-or-treating season. “Batman: The Long Halloween,” at No. 9, is a new edition, with extra pages previously available only in a hardcover version, of one of Batman's greatest...
Lady Gaga Reveals Love of Books by Indian Philosopher Osho: "I am kind of an ...
Hollywood Reporter
I read a lot of Osho's books and I have been reading a lot about (Osho's views on) rebellion, which is my favorite so far. And how creativity is the greatest form of rebellion in life. Its important to stand up for what you believe in and to fight for ...
Mo Willems releases app based on 'Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!'
USA Today
By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY Mo Willems, creator of the pushiest and most unfulfilled pigeon in the world of picture books, is no fan of e-books, which he describes as "narrative killers." So what's he doing releasing the first app based on his...
Authors compete for morgue prize
BBC News
Authors taking part in the "Million for a Morgue" campaign are: Tess Gerritsen, Kathy Reichs, Lee Child, Harlan Coben, Mark Billingham, Jeffrey Deaver, Jeff Lindsay, Stuart MacBride, Peter James and Val McDermid. The author with the most public votes ...
Hyperink Commissions Books Based On Search Engine Results
mediabistro.com
Hyperink founder Kevin Gao told Forbes that he can “churn out a book in a month at one-tenth the cost of physical books.” The publisher already has a number of eBooks for sale. eBookNewser has more: “Hyperink already has niche titles such as The Best ...
IS IT THE END FOR BOOKS? A CONVERSATION WITH TWO WISCONSIN BESTSELLING AUTHORS ...
Insurance News Net (press release)
A CONVERSATION WITH TWO WISCONSIN BESTSELLING AUTHORS [Corporate Report Wisconsin] The digital revolution has changed the way America does almost everything. Remember books? Those printed treasures we held in our hands, turning actual pages until we ...
A Writer of Slasher Books Finds More Than a Muse
New York Times
We meet Mr. Fox; he is a writer of slasher books, and he has an assistant, a woman named Mary whom he conjured in a trench during his days fighting in World War I. He also has a wife, Daphne. At some point or other, all three of them write. ...
Occupy Oakland Gets Support from Authors
mediabistro.com
The document includes signatures from authors Michael Pollan, Rebecca Solnit and Dave Eggers. Here is an excerpt: “As writers, authors, editors, filmmakers and artists from across the country, we believe free speech and assembly are paramount to ...
Atria Publishes First-Ever Nearfield Communications Enabled "smart book"
MarketWatch (press release)
Atria Books is an imprint of Simon & Schuster, a part of CBS Corporation. Simon & Schuster is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for consumers of all ages, ...
Barnes & Noble to Double Size of Some Nook Boutiques
Wall Street Journal
The decision comes as Barnes & Noble faces intensifying competition from Amazon.com Inc. on both the e-reader and digital books front. In late September, Amazon unveiled new versions of its Kindle e-reader, including a $199 Kindle Fire tablet, ...
5 Reasons E-Books Are Awesome – Even for the Most Reluctant
MindShift
I was happy with regular papery books. When the iPad went on sale in 2010, it was harder for me to resist. I've been using Macs, and Macs only, since I was a 6-year-old trying to ford a river in the game Oregon Trail on my school's Apple II. ...
Who will win this battle over books?
Telegraph.co.uk
The windows of a Victorian building in Kensal Rise are covered with handmade signs: “Bail out the library, not the bankers”; “Oi, Labour, leave our books alone”; and, above the bolted doors, “Let us run our library”. In April, Labour-run Brent Council ...
A Kindle loaded with e-books is heavier than an empty one
Geek.com
One of the major selling points of the Kindle e-reader is its ability to store thousands of books without getting any bigger or heavier. Try and do the same with physical books and you soon wouldn't be able to move under the weight, or even carry more ...
Lonely Planet's Lights, Camera...Travel! with Special Event at McNally Jackson ...
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Several distinguished actors will be reading their stories at McNally Jackson Books on November 7th, 2011. "The premise behind this anthology is simple: since the ancient Greeks, actors have been society's storytellers. And ever since Hollywood first ...
This Week In Photography Books
By Jonathan Blaustein
Edgar Martins' “This is Not a House,” is a smooth, mid-sized hardcover recently released by Dewi Lewis Publishing in England. I suspect ... Suzanne Opton's “Soldier/Many Wars” is a new, hard-cover offering from Decode Books in Seattle. ...
A Photo Editor
GOOD Books: Thrillers - Culture - GOOD
By Nina Lincoff
Five thriller novels, plus their on-screen counterparts, to get you in a Halloween mood.
GOOD
Hyperink Pairs Writers With Experts For Niche eBooks « eBookNewser
By Dianna Dilworth
Hyperink Pairs Writers With Experts For Niche eBooks. Digital publishing has changed the way thatbooks are distributed and read, but a new publishing company called Hyperink aims to change the way that books are sought out. Call it books ...
eBookNewser
Publishing News: Amazon's Kindle Format 8 dashes hopes for ...
By Jenn Webb
Any hopes of EPUB3 becoming an across-the-board publishing format standard were dashed by Amazon's new KF8 format. Also, The ... The Books in Browsers conference continues today — and it's being livestreamed. Speakers today ...
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Amazon, Books, and Change : Beyond Search
By Stephen E. Arnold
Amazon, Books, and Change. October 28, 2011. Amazon's recent pre-release sales campaign for the not-yet-here Kindle Fire, with a price below most expectations, has created a lot of buzz around the company's digital publishing aspect. ...
Beyond Search
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