April 2009
8 posts
This is big: Amazon buys Lexcycle
So, Lexcycle, the folks behind the very excellent Stanza,
has just been assimilated. Lexcycle says it will be business as
usual, which is an odd thing to say given that the whole damn reason
one company buys another is because one or both companies do not
want business to stay as usual. So, assuming things will change, here
are some questions:
How will Stanza’s store interact with the...
Random House enhances books
More from LBF09: Random House is launching an ‘enhanced’ ebook
range. Unlike Penguin’s enhanced classics, RH’s range seems to be
more contemporary:
The enhanced ebooks offer readers a range of additional content such as videos, games, quizzes, photos, author interviews, interactive graphics and the option to listen to or read the text at the start of each chapter. The...
Book reading habits: LBF2009
Publisher’s Weekly has just summarised a panel discussion at this
year’s London Book Fair relating to differences between UK and US
readers:
In terms of what readers are buying, mystery and romance accounted for much larger shares of fiction purchases in the U.S. in 2008 (a combined 57%) than in Britain (31%), where “general popular and literary fiction” as well as...
Watch“Any time someone puts a lock on something you own, against your wishes, and doesn’t give you the key, it’s not being done to your benefit.” - one of many choice quotes on DRM from Cory Doctorow in his TOC talk.