Popular e-book distributor Feedbooks has raised a million euros in new financing after hitting 3.5 million downloads per month, including 500,000 in France.
France’s 3rd Largest Online Bookseller Launches Open-source E-book Platform
At this year’s Paris Book Fair, France’s 3rd largest online bookseller, Decrite.fr plans to launch ‘tea,’ an open source, multi-platform e-book ‘alternative.’
How to Counter Amazon: Create a One World E-Book Alliance
The aeronautical industry, once dominated by Boeing, managed to develop Airbus. The publishing industry should aspire to create its own ‘cultural Airbus.’
Should Small Nations Collectively Digitize Their Work?
Should small market nations bring together a collective to digitize the publishers holdings when doing so as individual publishers might otherwise prove unfeasible?
Germany’s PaperC Becomes First E-bookstore to Offer Individual Pages from Elsevier
PaperC has partnered with Elsevier and will be the first e-bookstore to offer individual pages and chapters for sale from the publisher.
E-Publishing Survey from University of Southern California
Survey from the University of Southern California: What features do publishers want and need for e-book authoring tools?
In Europe E-books are Approached with “Concern, Not Hysteria,” says Italy’s Mussinelli
By Daniel Kalder MILAN: “The problem in Italy and in Europe in general, is that data on e-books is scarce, says Cristina Mussinelli, a digital publishing consultant for the Italian Publishers Association and European member of the IDPF board. “There is no central entity collecting information in an organized way, and the ways in which different countries collect data may not …
Does the Fast-Evolving E-book Device/Platform Landscape Ultimately Benefit DRM-Happy Publishers?
By Edward Nawotka Have you been loyal to a single e-book device and platform or do you graze? I’ll admit, I’m neither device agnostic nor platform or retailer agnostic. I think of all the e-reading devices I own or have owned, including a Kindle (Gens 1 & 2), an iPad, a NookColor, a Franklin Reader, a Rocket E-book, and various smartphones, PCs …
Japanese E-book Moves: Multiple Collaborative Platforms Planned
By Emily Williams Japan’s e-book market, which has been strong on the manga side and for user-created content but nearly non-existent when it comes to traditional prose books, looks like it’s preparing to expand. Last week saw the announcement of a new e-book platform under development from NTT DOCOMO, the country’s largest mobile operator, and Dai Nippon Printing, a large printing company …
Full Details of Spain’s Libranda E-book Platform Launch
By Emily Williams Libranda – It’s Official! The official unveiling of Libranda, the digital distributor set up by Spain’s leading publishers, took place yesterday in Madrid. Most of the information presented confirmed reports leaked last month (and covered by us here), but the press conference today did fill in a number of details: – Libranda launches in beta on July …