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Kobo celebrates e-book week with a round of financing

Kobo today announced it has closed a new round of financing. The amount of the Series C investment has not been disclosed, but in a statement, the Toronto-based e-publishing company says, Indigo Books & Music ... Read More »

March 8, 2011 | Filed under: Book news

Daily book biz round-up: Amazon rips off Kindle users; snogging Salman; and more

By Scott MacDonald

Today's book news: Scandal! Amazon charging Kindle users for free Project Gutenberg titles Sex! British media personality sues Sunday Times for writing that she "snogged" Salman Rushdie Passion! Nabokov's love letters to be published in ... Read More »

November 30, 2010 | Filed under: Book news

Proofreading the public domain

By Stuart Woods

At last month's BookNet Canada technology forum, one memorable moment came during a talk by Montrealer Hugh McGuire, one of the co-organizers of BookCamp Toronto and the founder of LibriVox, an online repository of free, ... Read More »

April 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The IMDB of publishing?

By Eric Emin Wood

The Los Angeles Times reports on a beta website, filedbyauthor.com, which aims to create Web pages (1.8 million so far) for just about every author who's ever existed, including a bio, links, and a list ... Read More »

March 31, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

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Search Results by tag: Project Gutenberg

Kobo celebrates e-book week with a round of financing

Daily book biz round-up: Amazon rips off Kindle users; snogging Salman; and more

Proofreading the public domain

The IMDB of publishing?

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