Oyster, one of the first and most prominent ebook subscription services, is shutting down, with much of its team moving on to Google Play Books.
Has Google Books Become an Afterthought in the USA?
In the past year in particular, with the Google Books settlement all but dead, attention has waned and the focus has shifted to Amazon, Apple, and Barnes & Noble.
Paris Lit Mag ActuaLitté Partners with Google Books to Curate Catalog
ActuaLitte partners with Google Books to help readers in France rediscover great books.
Google Books Launches in Canada
The Google Books platform for selling e-books has launched in Canada, following the initial launch in the United States and recently in the UK.
UNESCO Focus 2011: South Africa Pubs Still Begrudge E-books; In US, Digital Caters to the Public Interest
Interviews with Brian Wafawarowa, Executive Director of Publishers’ Association of South Africa, and Peter Brantley, director of the Bookserver Project at the Internet Archive in the USA By Nicholas Gary, editor of ActuaLitté On the occasion of UNESCO’s World Forum on Culture and Cultural Industries, being held in Monza, Italy this week, Nicholas Gary of ActuaLitté interviewed participants about the most …
Friends, Romans, Librarians: Lend Me Your E-books (Part 2)
Yesterday, in Part 1, Erik Christopher looked at the e-book models offered to librarians by the United States’ two largest e-book retailers, Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Today, he considers the model offered by Overdrive and the future of lending as seen by the Open Book Alliance’s Peter Brantley. By Erik Christopher Despite the user-friendly devices and what they can …
Will Google eBooks Save Indie Booksellers?
By Hannah Johnson The Google eBookstore launched today in the USA to much chatter and speculation about how it will change the e-book market. One of the major changes that the Google eBookstore brings is its open platform that allows partner and affiliate retailers to sell Google eBooks. Through an agreement with the American Booksellers Association (ABA) and agreements with …
Is Google Editions the White Whale, a White Elephant…or a White Knight??
By Edward Nawotka The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung. That intangible malignity which has been from the beginning; to whose dominion even the modern Christians ascribe one-half of the …
Google Books ‘auf Deutsch’
Interview by Nicholas Gary Yesterday’s news about Hachette Livre’s deal with Google to scan and sell 40 to 50,000 out-of-print books came as something of a surprise to many. Could the same thing happen in Germany? Annabella Weiss, the manager for Google Books for Germany, Austria and Switzerland, won’t say. But she did speak with Nicholas Gary of Actualitté, about what …