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Tuesday 9th February |
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Feature Items
Has Google Developed The Next Wave Of Online Education? Campus decision makers say Google Wave's Web 2.0 features mark an evolution in distance learning, but some IT officials remain skeptical
Campaign Encourages 'Silver Scribblers' To Write Books A campaign to encourage older people to join book clubs and even write their own novels has been launched
Publishers Win A Bout In E-book Price Fight Could book publishers suddenly be in the position of telling Google what to do?
Crumb's 'Book Of Genesis' Rules Bestseller Lists Cartoonist R. Crumb has come a long way from his days as a star of the underground comics movement of the 1960s
Masters Of American Literature With the death of JD Salinger last week, a remarkable era in US literature came to its end
Percy Jackson: My Boy's Own Adventure A series of bestselling books and now a Hollywood movie
ABA Winter - Better Than Ever Judging from the energy that ran through most of the 500 booksellers in attendance, the spirit of the show will continue for quite some time
Consumer Survey Shows Opportunities For Booksellers Some of the more extreme predictions of an e-only book future are, well, extreme
Imagine If Publishers Turned Brick-and-mortar Bookstores Into 'Agents' Who Got A Thirty-percent Commission? Have we stumbled upon a model that actually works better than the current model?
Kindle Books In Snack Sizes Who has time to read a whole book anymore?
Internet, Critics Motivate Book Buyers In Germany What draws customers into bookstores in Germany and how well informed are they about what they will find there?
Book Publishers. Stop Scaring Me How will publishing avoid being trapped by its own environment?
Billionaire Gets A Good Read On Barnes & Noble's Value Can Ron Burkle invigorate bookseller?
HMV Uses Radical 'Non-confrontational' Interview Techniques To Prevent Fraud In UK It started life as 'His Master's Voice' but listening has become the latest weapon in fighting fraud for HMV
Unknown UK Crime Writer Simon Beckett Wows Europe Last year's bestselling British fiction writer in continental Europe was a former odd-job man from Sheffield
The Return Of The Werewolf Suddenly, they are everywhere, in bookshops, on television and in the cinema
What Is The Google Books Settlement? What does Google's proposed plans for digitising millions of books mean for publishers, authors and web users?
Novelist Kader Abdolah On Attacking The Iranian Regime From His Dutch Exile 'I kill the ayatollahs with literature'
Amazon Outlook Bright Despite New Threats Concerns over competition in its trendy e-reader business are overblown
Qbook: iPad Interactive Books For Kids Story-books that read themselves
Bringing Ebooks To All Of Us Just as the iPod transformed the way we listen to music, so the iPad could redefine the idea of settling down with a good book
The Digital Book In Practice: 14 Languages, Multiple Formats, Wireless Delivery Imagine a graphic novel series, released every month simultaneously in 14 languages and across all major wireless platform . . .
Is Niche The Key To Publishing Survival? Concentrate on building a brand and a mission; publishers can't just publish books
Telegraph: No More Chasing Web Hits New strategy will focus on content, commerce and clubs – not user figures, says Telegraph Media Group digital editor
Amazon To E-book Publishers: Change Or Die The entire publishing pricing model is insane |
