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November 4, 2009By Michael Cader

Lulu Adds An eBook Store—with Real Authors

November 4, 2009By Michael Cader

Lulu.com announced in a press release the addition to their site on an ebook store they say features over 200,000 titles from mainstream publishers and authors. While the company hopes to sell some of those titles to its site visitors, they are also clearing hoping to use the established titles as bait to attract more self-publishing customers–already said to be producing “nearly 15,000 new titles a month.” Sic. On the site, Lulu says that for self-publishing customers, on a $13.99 ebook they will pay the creator $10 per title sold. On titles from other publishers, they appear to sometimes offer […]

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November 4, 2009By Michael Cader

Simon & Schuster Launches Their Own Electronic Galley Program

November 4, 2009By Michael Cader

Simon & Schuster has expanded and remade the experimental GalleyGrab.com site they used earlier this year to elicit interest in pre-BEA physical galleys into their own electronic galley service for “reviewers and media, booksellers, and other key publishing trade contacts.” The service works on most non-Kindle electronic reading platforms, from Sony Reader and nook to computers–using Adobe Digital Editions and its DRM. And the electronic galleys “will expire on the book’s publication date.” Access is provided by “invitation”–S&S staff will send links to particular electronic galleys to selected contacts. The program begins with a galley of Free Press’s march release, […]

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November 4, 2009By Michael Cader

Another Good Quarter for Harlequin

November 4, 2009By Michael Cader

Harlequin continues to outshine parent company Torstar’s other assets as the book publisher turned in another positive quarter even as overall results at Torstar declined. Harlequin reported sales of $122.5 million (Ca), up 3.7 percent from a year ago, though most of the growth was due to a stronger Canadian dollar. The company says “growth in North America direct-to-consumer and overseas revenues more than offset declines in North America retail.” Operating profits rose 22 percent to $22.9 million, with almost half the gain coming from foreign exchange. Torstar says “at Harlequin, we anticipate stable results in the fourth quarter including […]

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November 3, 2009By Michael Cader

Bookselling: Borders Will Ship It If They Don't Have It; Leading Australian Chains May Go Public

November 3, 2009By Michael Cader

We’ve always wondered why any (and every) bookstore–chain or indie–doesn’t offer to ship you for free any book that is not in stock. After all, in an internet-everywhere age, customers know they can go to any browser and accomplish the same thing. But Borders appears to be the first to figure this out, announcing today a “promise to customers that if they do not find an item in stock in a Borders store, and that item is among the more than one million titles available on Borders.com, Borders will find it and pay the shipping costs to the customer’s home.” […]

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November 3, 2009By Michael Cader

Internet Archive Experiments with Online Scan-and-Lend

November 3, 2009By Michael Cader

The Internet Archive’s expansive ambition for their recently-introduced Bookserver continues to cause a range of excitement and confusion depending upon whom you speak to, in part because the scheme is in its very early stages. A profile of Archive founder Brewster Kahle in the new issue of Forbes magazine, titled Lend Ho!, tipped us to yet another aspect of their intentions: “Kahle hopes libraries will use the new Bookserver technology to scan and electronically lend orphans. Kahle reasons that libraries can scan and electronically lend their orphans without violating any laws, just as they lend those volumes today…. It also […]

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November 3, 2009By Michael Cader

Maker of Patented Dual-Screen Reader Sues Barnes & Noble Over Nook

November 3, 2009By Michael Cader

Remember the confusion when a company called Spring Design announce their “Alex” dual-screen ereader the day before Barnes & Noble unveiled nook and people wondered if the two companies had worked together? Now Spring Design says they have sued BN, alleging that the retailer “misappropriated trade secrets and violated the parties’ non-disclosure agreement when it copied Alex’ features” for nook. VP of sales and marketing Eric Kmiec says, “We showed the Alex e-book design to Barnes & Noble in good faith with the intention of working together to provide a superior dual screen e-book to the market.” The company recounts […]

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