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Sales of ebooks will overtake print books within the next five years, Sony has predicted.
Sony says that ebook sales will overtake print sales within five years.
Steve Haber, president of Sony’s digital reading business division, said: “Within five years there will be more digital content sold than physical content. Three years ago, I said… Continue reading
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Audio Book Tops Adult Audio Book List
Stieg Larsson‘s very popular The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has topped the adult fiction audiobook… Continue reading
The long-anticipated follow-up to The Da Vinci Code was the best-selling book for the week ending December 19, and will therefore be in the top spot on Christmas Day.
The thriller, again featuring Harvard symbologist Robert… Continue reading
Hackers from the US and Israel say they have broken copyright protections built in to Amazon’s Kindle for PC, a feat that allows ebooks stored on the application to work with other devices.
The hack began as an open challenge in this (translated) forum for participants to come up with a way to make ebooks published in Amazon’s proprietary format display on competing readers… Continue reading | 1 Comment
Publishers must establish good trading relationships with digital distributors such as Apple and Google if they are to successfully “navigate” the changing digital landscape, Pan Macmillan’s digital director has told the Tools of Change (TOC) conference being held in Frankfurt today (13th October).
Sara Lloyd, who also spoke at the Tools of Change conference in New York this February, opened the first-ever TOC day in Europe. She told the… Continue reading
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has hit out at critics of the company’s plans to create what could be the world’s largest virtual library.
Writing in the New York Times, Mr Brin said he wanted to “dispel some myths” surrounding the project.
He said the plan would make millions of “out-of-print” books available to the public online. EmporiumBooks.com.au already offers previews of books through… Continue reading