By Book Group Librarian on March 26, 2010
A new e-book store, a repositioning of range, a greater focus on local promotions and increased non-book sales are among the strategies of Waterstone’s to improve its business. The management of HMV Group is meeting City analysts today [Friday, 26th March] to discuss its future plans. HMV Group is hoping that the new initiatives at [...]
Posted in Book News | Tagged borders, ebooks, hmv, waterstones
By Book Group Librarian on December 10, 2008
Here’s a great Christmas present from the lovely people at Random House. For a limited time (until Feb 28th, 2009) they are giving away nine free ebooks in a variety of formats from a variety of ebook retailers. New York, NY – December 8, 2008 — The Random House Publishing Group and Lexcycle, Inc., jointly [...]
Posted in E-Books, Free Stuff | Tagged Book Publishers & Suppliers, books on board, charlie houston, david liss, ebooks, fictionwise, Free Stuff, julie garwood, random house
By Book Group Librarian on October 24, 2008
Published all over the Amazon site today was the announcement that they are probably laughing all the way to the bank about and why not! “Someone” sent Oprah an Amazon Kindle as gift and guess what, she loves it, and has given it her blessing. I guess that means tears before bedtime for the Sony [...]
Posted in E-Books, Oprah's Book Club | Tagged amazon.co.uk, ebooks, endorsement, Featured Publishers, green books, iliad, kindle, oprah, Oprah's Book Club, sony reader
By Book Group Librarian on October 16, 2008
No UK Kindle before Christmas Well this is a blow, but as per my previous post, not very surprising as I knew they would have problems here with the sheer number of WiFi carriers (not a problem in the US as there is only one apparently) This is the latest from the Frankfurt Bookfair: Amazon [...]
Posted in E-Books | Tagged amazon uk, E-Books, ebooks, electronic books, Featured Publishers, Frankfurt Bookfair, kindle, sony reader
By Book Group Librarian on July 21, 2008
The “free e-books every week” offer has finished now, but for a limited time you can download all of them via the Tor.com website. Get ‘em while you can – click here Twenty Four free books! Here’s the complete list showing the available formats for each one: Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson PDF || HTMLnew! || [...]
Posted in E-Books, Free Stuff | Tagged brandon sanderson, cathy clamp, david drake, download, E-Books, ebooks, electronic books, fantasy, free_e_books, harry turtledove, jane lindskold, john scalzi, l.e. modesitt, limited_time, mercedes lackey, rachel_cainer, science-fiction, tobias bucknell
By Book Group Librarian on July 14, 2008
New polls are up, so feel free to answer them all. We love to hear what you think. All polls are of course related to books and especially for Book Addicts. Enjoy!
Posted in Book Addicts Book Group | Tagged book addicts, ebooks, polls, reading, statistics, survey
By Book Group Librarian on July 14, 2008
I found this announcement which I’m quite excited about. I think I might like one of these, seems better than the Amazon kindle and it doesnt use proprietary software, so you can read .pdfs. word docs etc as well. Cost is quite prohibitive though I think unless everyone I know wants to club together and [...]
Posted in E-Books | Tagged amazon_kindle, book-readers, bookmaking, bookselling, bookworld, borders, digital_books, digital_documents, E-Books, ebooks, electronic books, eyestrain, handwritten_notes, high_contrast, iliad_book, printing_press, product_features, proprietary_software, reading_text, word_docs
By Book Group Librarian on July 10, 2008
Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (Cape) was crowned the Best of the Booker this week, with 36% of the public vote. The shortlist, which had been whittled down to six from the 41 previous Booker winners by a panel of judges, also comprised Pat Barker’s The Ghost Road (Viking), Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda (Faber), J [...]
Posted in Book Awards | Tagged best of booker, booker prize, british council, E-Books, ebooks, jm coetzee, pat barker, pilot project, salman rushdie
By Book Group Librarian on March 7, 2008
I hope you are all enjoying the free e-book downloads from Tor! Well now along with the free books, they are now offering two free wallpapers each week in a variety of sizes to suit all desktops. The first two on offer are by Donato Giancola John Jude Palencar and shouldn’t be missed
Posted in Free Stuff, Paranormal Social Club | Tagged ebooks, free books, wallpaper
By Book Group Librarian on February 18, 2008
Publisher experiments with free online books Richard Lea Tuesday February 12, 2008 EducationGuardian.co.uk Two competing visions of the future went head-to-head online yesterday as HarperCollins and Random House launched contrasting new experiments in book distribution on the same day. Building on a scheme launched in 2006 which allows users to flick through extracts of the [...]
Posted in E-Books | Tagged american gods, book_distribution, digital_warehouse, E-Books, ebooks, electronic books, free_access, harpercollins, jane_friedman, neil-gaiman, random_house, visions_of_the_future
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