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FRENCH PRESIDENT HITS OUT AT GOOGLE AND AMERICA
US Search Engine Google has been attacked by the miniature President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, due to its plans to put much of the classic literature from the entire world in a digital format. Sarkozy has said that he doesn’t want the French part...
The eBook revolution continues
The library e-book distributor OverDrive predicts downloads of e-books and other library content will hit 19 million in 2009 — roughly the volume for the years 2003-08 combined."We've really hit a tipping point," Coker says. "Once people try an e-b...
COOLER EBOOKS - NEW WEBSITE
cooler-ebooks.com.Cooler E-books is a Web site where you can search for digital books. The site boasts two million titles to choose from at prices 20 percent less than competitors. Cooler-ebooks.com has the latest releases and best sellers as well ...
FIREFOX RELEASE EBOOK ADD-ON
Firefox has long been the web-browser of choice with the Archive - Not only is it more secure and faster than Internet Explorer but now the browser has an add on that makes searches for online eBooks simplicity itself.And how long will it take to fin...
Press release
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PUBLISHERS PRESS RELEASE - Book Publishing Sales Post Gains in September New York, NY, November 17, 2009—Book sales tracked by the Association of American Publishers (AAP) for the month of September increased by 12.3 p...
DIGITAL V PRINT - NOW IT\'S WAR
This time last week specialist author Stephen Covey was unknown outside of his business book community but his recent deal for eBook rights with Amazon has made the entire publishing industry take notice. No one can deny now that there is a revolutio...
MACMILLAN THROW THEIR WEIGHT BEHIND eBooks
Macmillan, one of the nation's largest publishers, said it will issue books it expects to be best sellers in an enhanced electronic-book format, starting in the first quarter of 2010. The special editions, which will include author interviews and ot...
Delaying eBooks is an invitation to piracy
The news that publishers are considering to hold back eBook editions of books sounds like a bad development for readers but poses a risk for the publishers themselves. A cynic would be forgiven for suspecting some in the publishing world are hoping b...
Google plan to move into eBook sales
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Search giant Google, which is making forays into the book world, would happily sell books to readers who own Kindles or other e-readers, said Google Books engineering director Dan Clancy on Friday. Google, which plans to launc...
BARNES AND NOBLE\'S NOOK - THE FIRST REVIEW
CNET have the low down on the latest eBook reader to hit the market HERE...
2222 short stories for the Iphone
This new AP for the iPhone and other such devices is soon to go live at Apple - Contained in the app are over 2222 short stories, all in the public domain.The eBooks move ever closer to market dominance....
CHINA AND TAIWAN AGREE ON EBOOK STANDARD
The ePub format is to be adapted for Chinese language eBooks. This makes the ePub favourite a strong contender to become the main format here in the West where the format wars are currently being fought.The push to promote a standard e-book format by...
BARNES AND NOBLE OVERWHELMED BY ORDERS FOR READERS
Barnes & Noble has been nearly overwhelmed by pre-orders for its upcoming Nook e-book reader, to the point where it has decided to not bring this device to its stores this week. The Nook went on sale last month through B&N's website, and the...
something to think about if buying an eBook
It’s a fact of life that any piece of technology you buy will soon be obsolete – be it a mobile phone, computer or just the humble TV in the corner of your room, while you’re unboxing it some guy in marketing is putting the finishing touches to...
Will regular books survive?
New media generally don’t replace old media, as Marshall McLuhan pointed out. After TV we still have radio. After telephones we had telegrams for a good long while. So what about books? After we have networked digital books, we’ll still have and ...
Apple aps go eBooks crazy
FROM THE TIMES ONLINE:One in five new apps in the Apple app store last month was an electronic book. There are now 10,000 ebooks for the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch, most of them free and many available for download as entire libraries. For exam...
The eBook: THE STATE OF PLAY
I keep updating the Archive with the latest news concerning the eBook revolution - that's what the Archive is for and not only do I plan to cover genre fiction, films, but all elements of pop culture. And as a writer and reader the book industry is s...
Ebooks now helping with the swine flu epidemic
No longer can it be denied that eBooks are the way the industry is going to go - Little, Brown has just released an eBook-only update of "The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child"--an instantaneous publishing response to public conc...
Ebook industry a step towards a universal standard
Barnes & Noble embraces social digital rights management (DRM) and snubs Amazons proprietary AZW format.In the latest s alvo in the escalating eBook wars, Barnes & Noble recently announced it was standardizing on the open ePub and PDF formats...
Ebooks price to fall
Where America leads we follow so this is good news for readers everywhere - ok prices are expected to go down amid the rising popularity of e-books, irrespective of the federal government's decision to maintain restrictions on parallel imports. ...
A LITTLE ROMANCE FOR CHRISTMAS
The eBook revolution continued and now SONY have announced a special Mills and Boons edition of their Ereader which they describe as, being a lovely powder pink. The reader comes with three Christmas themed Mills and Boons eBooks preloaded onto the d...
The digital wheel keeps on rolling
Recently the Archive announced the launch of Carina Press, a new imprint of romance publisher Harlequin that will exclusively publish eBooks. eBook-only publishers, a group that's really growing in a publishing world where eReaders are getting more ...
NEW IMPRINT SEEKS WRITERS
Harlequin Books have become the first publisher to set up a digital only imprint, Carina Press. In their press issue the publisher said:" Digital publishing is not new to Harlequin, since many of their print books are also available in ePublishing fo...
5 EBOOK READERS REVIEWED
I came across this article when surfing the web that I thought might prove interesting to anyone thinking of taking the plunge and getting an Ereader. It reviews 5 different Ereaders including Amazon's Kindle - HERE...
ARCHIVE\'S BOOK BIZ NEWS
Perhaps the clearest indication of how Ebooks are making inroads yet - Apple have reported that Books have outdone games in the AP department for the iPhone. For the first time there have been more bookS produced for the iPhone this month than games...
EBOOK CREATE SURGE IN PEOPLE USING PUBLIC LIBRARIES
The Daily Telegraph reports that: After years of library membership declining and fears that the public no longer wanted to borrow books, some institutions are reporting a spike in interest since they started to offer e-books. Only a handful...
