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Amazon launches digital platform for fan fiction

Amazon announced the launch of Kindle Worlds, a new digital publishing platform for fan fiction, touted as the first legal commercial platform of its kind. Despite the prevalence of online fan fiction, copyright laws make ... Read More »

May 22, 2013 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Amazon declares ebooks “multi-billion-dollar category”

By Sue Carter

While Amazon yesterday reported lower-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings and a decrease in sales for physical books, the company also announced that sales for ebooks have been steadily climbing. In a press release, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos ... Read More »

January 30, 2013 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Kindle devices now available in Canadian stores

By Natalie Sequeira

Canadians wanting to get their hands on a Kindle can now look closer to home. Amazon announced today that the latest generation of the popular e-reader is now available for sale on the company's ... Read More »

January 23, 2013 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Oliver Twist, yoga murder mystery among first ebooks in Amazon’s new serial-novel series

By Sue Carter

While most of the hoopla around yesterday's Amazon press conference focused on its new e-readers and upgraded Kindle Fire tablet, the tech company also announced its new Kindle Serials subscription series. Charles Dickens is credited ... Read More »

September 7, 2012 | Filed under: Digital publishing and technology

Book links roundup: U.S. government speaks on Kindle deal, Macmillan to release erotic Jane Eyre, and more

By Katie Gowrie

U.S. State Department speaks out about Amazon Kindle deal Pan Macmillan acquires erotic retelling of Jane Eyre CBC commissions Jack Layton biopic Self-published ebook gone viral lands seven-figure deal with Penguin Amazon and R.R. Bowker ... Read More »

June 14, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Book links roundup: U.S. government to buy $16.5 million worth of Kindles, Fifty Shades of Grey film rumours, and more

By Katie Gowrie

U.S. State Department to buy 2,500 Kindles* Will Fifty Shades of Grey get the Hollywood treatment? Barnes & Noble and superstar lawyer send blunt letter of complaint to the DoJ Diane Keaton to write new ... Read More »

June 12, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Book links roundup: Sara Nelson’s big move, Harry Potter enters Kindle library, and more

By Katie Gowrie

Former Publishers Weekly editor Sara Nelson moving to Amazon Harry Potter ebooks to be added to Kindle lending library Wiley acquires textbook publisher Harlan Davidson Harlequin has slow start in first quarter Chelsea Cain's thriller ... Read More »

May 10, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Book links roundup: Encyclopaedia Britannica sales boom, Kindle’s lending library expands, and more

By Shannon Webb-Campbell

Last call for Encyclopaedia Britannica's print edition boosts sales Kindle Owners' Lending Library boasts 100,000 titles German Nobel laureate GÃ¼nter Grass pens poem about Israel's threat to world peace Salty Ink interviews poet Kerri Cull about her new collection, ... Read More »

April 5, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Book links roundup: Mad Men’s literary leanings, Pottermore opens its ebook shop, and more

By Sue Carter

Is Mad Men the most literary show on TV? The Globe and Mail's John Doyle thinks it replaces the novel in terms of cultural significance Harry Potter ebooks now available in Canada for the Sony ... Read More »

March 27, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Book links roundup: Canada’s best-selling graphic novels, Schnittman leaves Bloomsbury for Hachette, new Vonnegut e-single; and more

By Natalie Samson

Sequential lists 30 best-selling Canadian comics and graphic novels Evan Schnittman leaves Bloomsbury for executive post at Hachette Does capitalism trounce freedom of expression at the London Book Fair? Unpublished Kurt Vonnegut novella, Basic Training, ... Read More »

March 23, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

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Search Results by tag: Kindle

Amazon launches digital platform for fan fiction

Amazon declares ebooks “multi-billion-dollar category”

Kindle devices now available in Canadian stores

Oliver Twist, yoga murder mystery among first ebooks in Amazon’s new serial-novel series

Book links roundup: U.S. government speaks on Kindle deal, Macmillan to release erotic Jane Eyre, and more

Book links roundup: U.S. government to buy $16.5 million worth of Kindles, Fifty Shades of Grey film rumours, and more

Book links roundup: Sara Nelson’s big move, Harry Potter enters Kindle library, and more

Book links roundup: Encyclopaedia Britannica sales boom, Kindle’s lending library expands, and more

Book links roundup: Mad Men’s literary leanings, Pottermore opens its ebook shop, and more

Book links roundup: Canada’s best-selling graphic novels, Schnittman leaves Bloomsbury for Hachette, new Vonnegut e-single; and more

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