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Six e-Readers Compared
If you’re thinking of buying a digital reader in the next six months and you’re wondering what device to get, here’s a handy chart that compares six of the most highly publicized models side by side....
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Publisher: "If You Can Afford An Ebook Device, You Can Pay More For Ebooks"
Imagine trying to buy a book from Big Generic Bookstore and watching the cashier add $5 to the sticker price. “What are you doing?!” you cry out, waving a fist menacingly at him. “You look like you can...
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Is It Okay To Download A Pirated Copy Of A Book You Already Own?
Yesterday we wrote about someone who downloaded a pirated copy of a game after he couldn’t gain access to the copy he’d already paid for. In that case, which most of our commenters supported, it was...
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Readers Dig Dirty Books, Boost Publishing Industry
If any industry needs a little help to get business to be booming, it’s publishing. And aid is coming from an unlikely source — erotic books could be the savior of the swiftly sinking business of book...
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Tips For Saving Money On Textbooks
The second half of summer is “complain about textbook prices” season, and last week the New York Times put together a special section on the topic and asked experts to weigh in. Too many of the...
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Atlantic Is Profitable, Thanks To Culture Shift And Checks
Defying the notion that the magazine business is careening at the edge of a digital abyss, the venerable Atlantic is about to turn its first profit in over ten years. The magazine cites a cultural...
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Retailers Do Not Want To Sell Magazines, Porn, Porn Mags
Add this to the woes facing the magazine industry: retailers are cutting back on the space they allocate to print products, and many are outright banning titles that show a little skin. Over the last...
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The Daily: Will Murdoch's Fancy New iPad Newspaper Save Publishing?
Probably not. But it does have lots of widgets and video modules. Rupert Murdoch today announced a news-distributing iPad app jointly produced with Apple and Steve Jobs that he is betting will save...
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Author Opens Book Store To Sell His Book And Only His Book
At a small book store in NYC’s West Village, there are shelves labeled “Best Sellers” and “Sale,” but even a quick scan of the spines will reveal something: They’re all the same book. In fact, all...
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Will The Marriage Of Penguin & Random House Send Book Prices Soaring?
(The Notorious T.D.P.) They’re going to the chapel and they’re gonna get married: Book publishers Penguin and Random House will become one after their parents company complete an upcoming merger. If...
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Amazon’s Kindle Scout Give Readers The Choice In Which Authors Gets Published...
Despite its decidedly unfriendly-to-authors feud with a major publishing company, Amazon is touting a new program that provides an outlet for hopeful authors, while letting readers maybe, sort-of...
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Publishers Pulling Book About Boy Dying, Going To Heaven Because Boy Didn’t...
Almost five years after the release of The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, publisher Tyndale House says it’s yanking the book from shelves immediately. This, because the “boy” and co-author of the tome,...
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Would You Pay 20¢ To Read One Wall Street Journal Article?
As more news consumers have started to migrate online instead of getting their news in dead-tree form, this has caused problems for the entire business model of publishing. It raises an interesting...
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Could Amazon & Penguin Random House Be Headed For A Hachette-Level Feud?
Almost exactly a year after Amazon and book publisher Hachette entered a very public feud over an e-book pricing dispute, the mega online retailer is reportedly on the cusp of engaging in a new battle...
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Amazon, Penguin Random House Avoid Dispute, Reach Deal For Physical & Online...
Public feud avoided. Less than a month after reports began swirling that Amazon and the world’s largest book publisher Penguin Random House could potentially come to blows over a new contract for...
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Penthouse Keeping Magazine, Citing The “Gravitas” Of The Printed Page
Don’t put down that pen just yet, Penthouse readers: your letters to the magazine could still end up in an issue on the newsstand in the near future. Penthouse’s editors say the magazine won’t be going...
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MySpace Still Exists, Parent Company Sells Social Network’s Remains To Time Inc.
Prepare to transport yourself back to 2003, kids, before Facebook, when a profile meant a list of your Top 5 friends and a flashy, custom design, and MySpace ruled the social media realm (Friendster,...
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