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While You Were Sleeping...

Submitted by Nick Harkaway on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 12:34

So, while you lot were drinking Mojitos and fine wines and some of us were toiling over our third novels and editing our second ones and preparing to become a dad for the first time, August was quite a startler. Read more »

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Profile: Garbhan Downey, editor at Guildhall Press

Submitted by Sam Missingham on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 08:02

Garbhan Downey has worked as a journalist, broadcaster, newspaper editor and literary editor. Currently an editor with Guildhall Press, he has published six novels and several non-fiction books. He talks us through his journey through publishing technology to releasing the first e-book from an Irish publisher: Read more »

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For you the Odyssey is over

Submitted by Philip Jones on Wed, 08/25/2010 - 17:05

Andrew Wylie and Random House have reached a truce over the agent's bold bid to bypass the traditional publishing route and publish direct to Amazon's Kindle device.

A joint statement issued by Markus Dohle, chairman & c.e.o., Random House and Andrew Wylie, president of The Wylie Agency read: Read more »

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An Independent Publisher Speaks Out About eBooks

Submitted by Sam Missingham on Wed, 08/18/2010 - 09:14

Steve Emecz runs independent London publishers MX Publishing specialising in NLP and therapy books. He talks us through his experience with e-books:

One of the wonderful things about the evolution of social media is that you get instant and regular feedback from your customers. We publish many NLP, hypnotherapy and coaching books and one of the regular pieces of feedback from practitioners, in particular from the USA in the last 12 months is that they would love to have books in an electronic format. Read more »

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Prices go plonk.

Submitted by Nick Harkaway on Mon, 08/09/2010 - 11:56

Soooo... during the merry month of August, while most of the world is on holiday, the revolution may have happened. Read more »

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The price war begins...and ends?

Submitted by Tom Tivnan on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 17:06

When Amazon announced last week that it was going to sell Kindle books through Amazon.co.uk, it said it was going to have the lowest e-book prices. That wasn't an empty promise. Read more »

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Why there's no EU Kindle: the view from a European suburb

Submitted by Miha Kovac on Thu, 08/05/2010 - 16:32

At least at first sight, there are three reasons why the development of e-book markets is much slower in continental Europe than in the USA. Firstly, there is no European Amazon. The reason for this is quite obvious: thanks to linguistic diversity, there are no online retailers that could sell and distribute all the books published in all the European languages in the same way that Amazon distributes and sells almost all books published in English. Read more »

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Here's one I downloaded earlier 2: Nixonland

Submitted by Tom Tivnan on Tue, 08/03/2010 - 17:29

Amazon has had enhanced e-books for the Kindle (or what it calls Kindle Edition with Audio/Video) for a little over a month, launching with 13 titles in late June, and at this writing there are 32 on the Kindle Store. At the moment, of course, the enhanced versions are not for the Kindle devices, but the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch Kindle apps.  Read more »

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Too black and white

Submitted by Tom Tivnan on Mon, 08/02/2010 - 16:59

I was on CNN on Friday to be a talking head about the Kindle and e-books overtaking hardbacks on Amazon (if anyone wants to see it, my mom back in the US has taped it off the Tivo). Read more »

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The Kessel run: first look at the new Kindle

Submitted by Graeme Neill on Thu, 07/29/2010 - 16:24

I had an all too brief meeting with Steve Kessel this afternoon, the man responsible for the Amazon Kindle. Like all of the senior hyperintelligent Amazon staff, he was an occasionally infuriating interview, from time to time straight batting away what I thought were rather innocuous questions (although I would say that, wouldn't I?). Read more »

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