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We are thrilled to announce a tremendously successful week of downloads for our Sherlock Holmes Experience vook. With great support from Apple, picking our app as the #1 “Staff Favorite” for the holiday week, Sherlock received over 17,000 20,000 downloads in just a matter of a few days (Ed: we just got some NEW sales [...]

I was surprised when I recently found out that The New York Times doesn’t take ebook sales into account when calculating its best seller list.  Ebooks are becoming increasingly popular — so how can we possibly have an accurate view of what books are selling if those numbers aren’t made available?
With more ereader devices hitting [...]

A new generation of ereaders are about to hit the market.
Kindle changed the ebook game and eInk was supposed to respond to people’s complaints about the difficulty of prolonged reading on screen. But as we quickly found, we want more than the ability to carry around hundred of books at a time. We want color. [...]

Every year, on one specific day, bloggers all around the world post about a particular topic. That day is today. October 15, 2009. It is Blog Action Day. This year, we were asked to blog about climate change. So I want to take a moment to ask the question: Are digital books “green”?
They save paper, [...]

Yesterday, I responded to a comment on yesterday’s post about the landscape of digital books. In my response, I asked Rick Toone what he sees as the future of children’s books in relationship to the digital revolution. In an act of serendipity, within moments I was alerted via Twitter to Disney’s big announcement.
This morning, The [...]

I recently came across a post on TechFlash about the ebook universe. The author, Eric Engleman, created a graphic (shown to the right) to begin to explore the “big boom” of the ebook universe. As Engleman wrote in his post:
The buzz around Amazon’s Kindle electronic reader has sparked growing interest in digital books, and the [...]

I’ve been reading a lot of articles recently about Google and it’s project to add millions of digital books to it’s free library. This project would allow anyone with an internet connection access to thousands of books that have previously only been found in the back corners of libraries. It would also give Google control [...]

Rumors have been flying for months — actually since the much admired Jane Friedman left HarperCollins over a year ago — that she would, indeed, be back.  Today, Paid Content reveals that she is indeed back, with a new publishing venture that has raised at least $3milion.  The specifics are characteristically vague but you can [...]

To those who think the magazine industry just doesn’t get it — and I know who you are, all 20 million of you — I direct your attention to this cool little thing vook’s Joel Burshem turned me on to:     It’s a video ad stuck smack in the middle of an issue of good old [...]

What would EL Doctorow, author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, and many other great novels have done if electronic books had been invented a century ago?  He wouldn’t have had such a great topic for his latest novel, Homer and Langley, because there wouldn’t have been the great epic iconic story of the Collyer [...]