Yesterday, a white hat hacker (the good kind) made the public data from 100 million Facebook profiles available to everyone. Today, somebody found out who's interested in it. The names include Apple, Disney, the Church of Scientology, Halliburton, and the UN.READ»
Amazon shot off an innocuous news release last night announcing that several heavyweights of literature would soon be joining its Kindle Store roster, including Salman Rushdie, Vladimir Nabokov, and Philip Roth. These big gains for ...READ»
Amazon announced yesterday the formation of AmazonCrossing, a new publishing imprint that will release foreign-language books translated into English, both in print and in its Kindle e-book format.READ»
Random House has announced it's diversifying to offset the failing profits from the traditional book publishing biz, but its target market is fascinating: Video games. So will video games benefit from a publisher, or more the other ...READ»
Random House today announced a huge reorganization aimed at moving the company from its analog roots to its possible digital future. Details as to how this will affect the hydra-headed company's output aren't exactly clear, but there ...READ»
You're probably among the millions who have experienced it: driving in a car, listening to the radio, and suddenly this song comes on. It is not just any song--this was your favorite song when you were a teenager. As the first few ...READ»
Nothing is ever perfect, and even when it appears to be so, we are subconsciously looking for the flaw. Because our point of connection lies in imperfection--it's what makes something authentic. And now, since perfection can be had at the stroke of a digital brush, we have an increasing need to know what’s real.READ»
Today, an email newsletter from Publisher's Marketplace features an item on the brewing "eRights battle." It's the latest salvo in a burgeoning cold war between agents and publishers that surfaced over the weekend.
The New York ...READ»
Some good news for a change, although their statistic is somewhat
misleading: 50% of market share is a looooong way from 50% of
publishers. Which is why I changed it in the headline.
Anyway, here’s the press release, in ...READ»
Suddenly, you see it everywhere--in airports, hotels, restaurants, and of course, in most public bathrooms. And in a blink, it's been seamlessly integrated into life as an essential everyday item. I'm talking about antibacterial hand gel. And from what I see around me, a lot of people seem to be feeling pretty dirty these days.READ»
The numbers are in, and eBooks may very well be the bright spot in book publishing's dim future--but only if publishers can figure out a way to keep the momentum going.
EBook sales accounted for $46.5 million as of the end of ...READ»
Several big-box retailers scared the hell out of book publishers two weeks ago by announcing they'd be selling popular hardcover books below cost. Fearing that the discounts would put permanent downward pressure on book prices, the ...READ»
Cryptografreaks and booksellers, rejoice! Brown's newest novel, which covers a 12-hour period in the ever-puzzling life of Da Vinci Code protagonist Robert Langdon, hits shelves with an initial print run of 5 million. That's only half ...READ»
Word is that Sony's due to make an interesting announcement today--it'll be adopting the ePub format exclusively on its electronic book readers. Why such a public push for a DRM'd open-source format? To beat Apple.
It's also a move ...READ»
The Lost Symbol Audio CDDan Brown’s new novel,
the eagerly awaited follow-up to his #1 international phenomenon, The
Da Vinci Code, which was the bestselling hardcover adult novel of all
time with 81 million copies in ...READ»
the lost symbol novel pre orderThe marketing campaign for Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown’s new book has begun in earnest, and will feature an array of hidden puzzles and games scattered across the internets.At
the official web ...READ»
In his latest book, Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back (Random House), Douglas Rushkoff claims that currency was invented to prevent transactions and put a brake on economic growth, ...READ»
If you’re counting on Random House to jump on your book, offer you a fatty advance and slave over marketing, here’s a tough little eye-opener: It’s not gonna happen.
Well, okay—technically it could happen. According to ...READ»
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After leaving his post as director of Harvard Business School's Life Sciences Department, Juan Enriquez spent most of last year sailing around the world in search of new life with J. Craig Venter, the ...READ»
