Tag Archives : e-book

Publishers can now prepare to capitalize fortunes with sales of eBooks with tracks and sound effects. According to English information newspaper The Telegraph, using a technology that can calculate the speed with which the reader reads the text, eBooks will play a soundtrack to that specific section of the narrative and add the corresponding sounds [...]

  The American publishers met in New York this week to promote what will be better next year, at an event in which more attention is turning to the growing influence of digital publications. Publishers participating in the BookExpo America agree that even if the publishing industry is losing money overall, the increase in sales of e-books and [...]

Google today launched its U.S. online store for distribution of books, Google eBooksStore. The site already has over 3 million titles available, and 4,000 partners, including major publishers like Penguin and Random House, and other small and independent. The director responsible for the Google Books project, James Crawford, said the company has scanned [...]

Amazon said that Kindle owners will be able to lend their books to other owners of the electronic book reader, or who have their applications for free (available for PCs, BlackBerries iPads, among others). The novelty, however, comes with a series of constraints: a book can be borrowed only once and the loan lasts only 14 days. Moreover, while the [...]

Google expects to launch its digital book platform “Google Edition”s in the United States before the end of this year, and Europe in early 2011, after reaching a series of agreements with publishers on the continent. It did so on Thursday, 7 Editions Google representative in Spain, Luis Collado, a news agency EFE during the Frankfurt Book Fair [...]

Electronic readers have soared in popularity in recent years and will continue to gain momentum among Americans, but perhaps to remain as a niche occupied primarily by dedicated bibliophiles. About eight percent of readers in the United States employ electronic readers. But a Harris Interactive poll released on Wednesday showed that about 12 percent [...]

Many commendable initiatives start tiny, almost unnoticed, but can offer experiences that are capable of changing people’s lives. David Risher, former vice president of Amazon is a founder of Worldreader, philanthropic organization that is betting that digital books are able to influence in education and literacy in developing countries. Risher [...]

Apple announced on Monday (3), through an official statement, which sold one million of iPads in the first 28 days of launch. The millionth gadget was sold on Friday (30), according to the company. Apple sold 300,000 units of the device facing the use of electronic media on the day of release in April 3, and half a million units the first week. Since [...]

Google Editions, service of digital books sale of the company, will inaugurate in June of 2010. The information was given by Amanda Edmonds, director of strategic partnerships of Google, in the TOC conference, in Frankfurt. According to her, one of the strong points of the program is that, once bought, the e-book is going to a “cloud library”, [...]

Some writers think that traditional publishing is the best way to validate authors. On the other hand, there are some who believe that prestige and reputation, more than resources and machinery, have put traditional publishing houses on the top rung of the publishing business hierarchy. What is generally perceived as the alternative to traditional [...]