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  • Waterstone’s goes full circle with Twitter

    Waterstone’s goes full circle with Twitter

    By Sam Missingham

    Other at The Bookseller

     You did know I’m quite fond of Twitter? I’m not entirely sure what I like most about it. Perhaps it’s the endless conversation? Talking is a favourite pastime. It’s certainly useful with a steady stream of information on everything: from the election and digital innovation to XFactor and growing vegetables. Or maybe it’s my Twitter pals providing endless entertainment. Read more

  • Support your local eBookseller! Is that a German problem

    By

    Publisher at Terzio Verlag, Munich

    Is it just me or is the bizzare form of the discussion how the local bookseller can participate in the eBook business a very special German issue? Our national booksellers and publishers association the Börsenverein is doing the splits over this issue to a point where it becomes painful even for the onlooker. Being the lobby for both the publishers and the booksellers has never been easy (and not always been smart either) but in these days it has become virtually impossible. Read more

  • The iPad arrives (in Europe) - at last

    The iPad arrives (in Europe) - at last

    By Philip Jones

    Editor at The Bookseller

    We've just posted the following story on theBookseller.com, The iPad and iBookstore to arrive in UK on 28th May, written by my sharp-eyed colleague Graeme Neill. The device will also go on sale in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain and Switzerland on 28th May, with iBookstore app ready for download. Read more

  • E-Readers reviewed: first up Sony Reader PRS-600

    E-Readers reviewed: first up Sony Reader PRS-600

    By Sam Missingham

    Other at The Bookseller

    I am pulling together reviews of the main e-Readers currently on the market. I'm hoping reviewed by people in the book trade. So if you are an author, publicist, editor, MD, librarian or bookseller and would like to review your e-Reader of choice, please contact me: sam.missingham@bookseller.co.ukDavid Viner, Assistant Librarian at Solihull Central Library provides our first review of the Sony PRS-600: I'll start by saying that the Sony Reader is certainly no iPad. Read more

  • Chronicles in Stone

    Chronicles in Stone

    By Dan Franklin

    Digital/Content/E-commerce/Developer at Random House

     This time last week I was exploring the ancient village of Carn Euny in the centre of the Penwith Peninsula of Cornwall. The origins of the village can be traced back to the 5th Century BC and the Iron Age; it was occupied for 900 years and abandoned in the 4th Century AD, when the Roman occupation of Britain was in its twilight. Read more

  • Discounts, Sugar, and "nowhere on the form for it"

    By Nick Harkaway

    Other at self

    I noticed some things in today's Morning Briefing from the Bookseller, and I thought I'd point them up. They probably qualify as an addendum to the "Harkaway Club" post I put up the other day, but on sober reflection I've decided that joke was really, really weak and I'm a bit embarrassed about it. So anyway... Read more

  • Will Google change the game?

    Will Google change the game?

    By Tom Tivnan

    Managing editor at The Bookseller

    'Game changing' is the phrase bandied about by publishers about the iPad, but the long trailed news that Google will start selling e-books sometime this summer may be far more significant (incidentally, The Bookseller's Catherine Neilan covered this story in October, the rest of the media seems to have just cottoned on). Read more

  • Who is publishing what on the iPad . . .

    Who is publishing what on the iPad . . .

    By Philip Jones

    Editor at The Bookseller

    Some great work here on how publishing on the iPad is evolving (in the US at least). There are 46,000 (paid and free) books available through the iBooks app, O'Reilly tell us, a third of which are fiction titles. The founding five publishers dominate the output with Penguin top dog with 24% of all iBooks. Read more

  • DRM is not all that

    By Nick Harkaway

    Other at self

    I see why Digital Rights Management seems like a good idea.It tries to turn digital products back into old-fashioned rivalrous, excludable goods, which would make the move to digital much less challenging. The trouble is that it's a bit of a disaster area.First, because what can be encrypted can be decrypted. Read more

  • Mobile me

    Mobile me

    By Jane Tappuni

    Agent at Publishing Technology

    If we are to believe the research,  according to Forrester over 3 million e readers were sold in 2009 in the USA, which would suggest that 1 in 100 people in the US have bought a device. Read more

  • One million and only going one way

    One million and only going one way

    By Philip Jones

    Editor at The Bookseller

    More than one million iPads have been sold in the US, according to an estimate on the Chitika website. The number is double Apple's figures from its first week's sales. Apple has yet to update its sales number though according to various Mac-centric websites an announcment that it has sold more than one million units is pending. Read more

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