Jonathan Franzen is wrong: the digital age is making us smarter | Henry Porter
Jonathan Franzen says the e-reader is a threat to our very systems of justice and self-government. He couldn't be more wrongIn the last few years of his life, Charles Dickens went on the road for a punishing schedule of public readings, which certainly...
The self-epublishing bubble
In August 2011, Ewan Morrison published an article entitled Are Books Dead and Can Authors Survive?. Here, he tracks the self-epublishing euphoria of the last five months and argues that we are at the start of an epublishing bubbleThe internet is full...
Jonathan Franzen warns ebooks are corroding values
Freedom author tells festival audience that the 'impermanence' of ebooks is incompatible with enduring principlesJonathan Franzen has spoken of his fear that ebooks will have a detrimental effect on the world – and his belief that serious readers wil...
The future of books, today
There is much talk of bright tomorrows for publishing at New York's Digital Book World expo, but how optimistic are readers?While we've all been thinking about Andrew Miller and the Costa's new enthusiasm short stories and Rushdie's troubles in Jaipur,...
David Houle: “There were more books published this week than there were in all of 1950″
At Digital Book World conference in New York this week, publishing experts have been revealing some very poignant data. For instance, today, author and futurist David Houle said, “There were more books published this week than there were in all...
Apple Sold 15.43 Million iPads Last Quarter
Apple counted a quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion in an earnings call this afternoon, recording impressive device sales for the quarter that ended December 31st.
Check it out: “The Company sold 37.04 million iPhones in the quarter, represent...
Should Authors Listen To Readers?
At a panel this morning at the Digital Book World conference in New York, publishing CEOs discussed the future of publishing. Across the panel, the executives agreed that the digital world offers publishers better insights into the customer point of vi...
NBC News Launches Digital Imprint
NBC News has launched a new eBook imprint called NBC Publishing. The imprint will release enhanced eBooks with videos inside.
The launch follows the media company’s success in the eBook business. Last year NBC worked with Penguin and The Perseus...
Happiness, hard times and hot love
Kicking off her monthly review of the most exciting new digital reads, Benedicte Page discovers a motley mixA flurry of straight-to-digital ventures such as Penguin Shorts and Bloomsbury Reader has signalled that mainstream publishers will be putting a...
Ebooks help Dixons to look on the bright side
Electricals firm confident it can repay £160m bond as IT support service demand improves profit marginsThe electricals company Dixons has reported better than expected Christmas trading and said it was now confident it could repay a make-or-break £16...
Ebook sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction