Jeremy Wagstaff's Loose Wire column. "As I write this two significant events are taking place: Google has said it will tie up with the American Booksellers Association—the U.S. trade group for independent bookstores—to sell ebooks. And there’s a conferenc
Readers will use their Google accounts to purchase the books directly from Google, whose Google Checkout system will serve as the payment platform. Google will pay publishers 63 percent of revenues and keep 37 percent for itself where it sold ebooks direc
By Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor Published: 20 Jul 2010 One hundred and forty-three e-books have been sold by Amazon for every 100 hardcover books in the second quarter of 2010. "Why are you comparing e-book sales to hard-backs? Most people buy pape
at BookExpo America, Mark Nelson, a Google strategic partner manager, gave an overview of the plan to an audience of booksellers, publishers, and a few librarians. How can readers read a book when they’re out of Internet access? Can a book be downloaded?
Nicholas Carr, The Atlantic "What Taylor did for the work of the hand, Google is doing for the work of the mind. " "Deep reading, as Maryanne Wolf argues, is indistinguishable from deep thinking. If we lose those quiet spaces, or fill them up with “conten
12/06/2010 07:00:00 AM Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we know as books. Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore. You can browse and searc
Michael Cairns 7.12. "And so it begins: The end of Amazon's dominance as a book retailer ... From a trends perspective, the Google eBookstore will help accellerate the developing comfort level that consumers have with not owning the products they 'purchas
Despite financial pressure, we therefore are advancing on two fronts, the digital and the analog. People often talk about printed books as if they were extinct. I have been invited to so many conferences on “The Death of the Book” that I suspect it is ver