Category: News & Notes

News & Notes — 7/27/13

News & Notes — 7/27/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Man Booker Prize announces the 2013 longlist “Chocolate Might Save Bookstores”.  Well, the scent… Read more »

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News & Notes — 7/20/13

News & Notes — 7/20/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News:   Ben Pruchnie/Getty Images  It’s been hard to miss the biggest (indeed, almost the… Read more »

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News & Notes – 6/29/13

News & Notes – 6/29/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Barnes & Noble is getting out of the tablet business.  The company hopes to… Read more »

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News & Notes — 6/22/13

News & Notes — 6/22/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Judge Hears Closing Arguments in Apple Trial” and Publishers Weekly‘s Andrew Albanese summarizes both… Read more »

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News & Notes — 6/08/13

News & Notes — 6/08/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “Amazon Executives Testify in eBook Price Fixing Case”, and their testimony upholds the DoJ’s… Read more »

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News & Notes — 5/04/13

News & Notes — 5/04/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “One Year Later, the Results of Tor UK Going DRM Free” (Julie Crisp, Tor.com). … Read more »

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News & Notes — 4/27/13

News & Notes — 4/27/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: Giuseppe Leto Barone. Used under Creative Commons licence (CC BY-ND 2.0) “Why Amazon Supports… Read more »

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News & Notes — 4/20/13

News & Notes — 4/20/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: “You’re Going To Be Sorry You Bought That Kindle” (Roberto Baldwin, Wired) because Kobo… Read more »

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News & Notes – 4/13/13

News & Notes – 4/13/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Worth Reading:   Author and president of the Author’s Guild Scott Turow wrote an opinion piece on “The Slow Death of… Read more »

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News & Notes — 4/06/13

News & Notes — 4/06/13

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Worth Reading:  “Decrying the evil empire of publishing while piloting one of its battle cruisers?” Traditional & indie author Bob… Read more »

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