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  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 signed an agreement with a major publisher of books in France, Hachette Livre, to sell and to scan books sold out, which ensures the Hachette extensive control over the price and content. The agreement, announced Wednesday, covers about 50 000 French titles, including literature, scholarly works and reference books. The arrangement is symbolically [...]

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 [...]

It might shock the traditionalists but the New York Times shall eventually go out of print, as early as 2015. The statement was made by Arthur Sulzberger at a London media summit this Wednesday. The idea is to make use of the online audience, and get rid of unnecessary expenditures associated with printing and publishing. Unless someone really rich [...]

You may not rate James Patterson, author of thriller novels, very high on quality but you have to rate him very high on quantity. He has never been acclaimed for producing what is called “high literature”. His thriller novels are mostly about a psychologist named Alex Cross and follows the basic best seller formula in the tradition of Dan Brown. [...]

Google can be negotiating the acquisition of the service of messages Twitter, according to a post in the site TechCrunch. Michael Arrington‘s article published in TechCrunch affirms that the two companies are considering the possibility of they develop together a mechanism of online search in real time. Google would pay the value collected by [...]

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 [...]