Philip K. Dick Total Recall eBook Coming
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has acquired the eBook rights to “We Can Remember it For You Wholesale,” the short story by the late Philip K. Dick that inspired the Total Recall movie in 1990 and an upcoming remake (trailer embedded above).
The Wylie ...
Hachette To Test eBook Pilot Program At Libraries
After pulling its new eBook titles from libraries back in 2010, the Hachette Book Group is testing a pilot program to offer new eBooks in libraries this spring.
Hachette currently offers backlist eBook titles for check out in libraries, but not new tit...
Waterstones kindle a deal for destruction with Amazon
Waterstones promise to make ebooks 'dramatically better' by teaming up with Amazon, but will you be browsing the shelves with your Kindle?Monday morning and already it's the end of the world. Instead of teaming up with Barnes and Noble to cast out the ...
Waterstones kindle a deal for destruction with Amazon
Waterstones promise to make ebooks 'dramatically better' by teaming up with Amazon, but will you be browsing the shelves with your Kindle?Monday morning and already it's the end of the world. Instead of teaming up with Barnes and Noble to cast out the ...
Tom Phillips and A Humument: how a novel became an oracle
New print and digital editions of the painter Tom Phillips's extraordinary work mark the artist's 75th birthdayThursday marks the 75th birthday of the artist Tom Phillips and much celebration is in order. He is best known for his ongoing project A Humu...
Apple and publishers fail to halt ebook lawsuit
Lawsuit accuses Apple and publishers of colluding to break up Amazon.com's low-cost dominanceApple and five major book publishers have failed to persuade a US judge to throw out a lawsuit by consumers accusing them of conspiring to raise electronic boo...
Apple & Publishers’ Motion to Dismiss Lawsuit Denied
U.S. District Court judge Denise Cote has denied both Apple’s and publishers’ move to dismiss a civil class action suit that alleges Apple and major publishers colluded to set eBook prices.
Follow this PDF link to download a copy of the 56-...
S.E. Hinton’s ‘The Outsiders’ Released in eBook Format
Penguin Young Readers Group will release S.E. Hinton‘s The Outsiders as an eBook for the first time.
Hinton (pictured, via) published The Outsiders in 1967 while completing her first year in college. This digital version celebrates the 45th an...
Pay us for library ebook loans, say authors
Many writers rely on income from library loans, says the Society of Authors, in calling for digital books to be included in PLR schemeAuthors are calling on the government to remunerate them when their ebooks are lent from libraries, calling it "patent...
Kirk Douglas Talks Hollywood Blacklist In Upcoming eBook
95-year-old Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas has a new eBook coming out on June 12th about making the film, Spartacus.
Published by Open Road, the digital book includes a foreword by actor George Clooney.
AppNewser has more: “In I Am Spartacus! Ma...
Writers won’t lose out if libraries lend ebooks
The Society of Authors' suspicion of e-lending is misguidedShould public libraries lend ebooks? The Society of Authors has called on culture minister Ed Vaizey to address concerns that library e-lending is "undervaluing retail pricing" and encouraging ...
Harry Potter eBooks Coming To Kindle Lending Library
Amazon has negotiated an “exclusive license” with Pottermore, adding all seven Harry Potter eBooks to the Kindle Lending Library.
J.K. Rowling‘s major bestseller will join more than 145,000 books that Amazon Prime member can check out...
