Book Biz Publishing Faces “Digital Talent” Emergency By Craig Morgan Teicher on Apr. 23, 2010 - 12:00 PM One impact of digital growth in publishing, and the advent of the iPad, is the need for publishers to hire lots of digital-savvy employees to create and manage the new kinds of content the market suddenly demands. In a press relea ...
Bookselling Barnes & Noble Launches New Ad Campaign for Nook eReader By Craig Morgan Teicher on Apr. 23, 2010 - 9:05 AM Have you seen Barnes & Noble’s new TV spot for the Nook eReader? It’s kind of odd, don’t you think, to sell this seemingly wholesome product with a commercial that focuses on one girl’s literary journey ...
Bookselling Time Magazine Launches Kindle-Exclusive eBook By Craig Morgan Teicher on Apr. 22, 2010 - 11:13 AM To coincide with a special issue marking the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill, Time Magazine is launching a short, Kindle-exclusive eBook called Love, Sex, Freedom and the Paradox of the Pill by the magazine’s exec ...
Reviews Salon Teams Up with BN Review By Craig Morgan Teicher on Apr. 21, 2010 - 11:09 AM Salon.com is bulking up on new content partnerships, bringing in writing from a couple other well-respected book-oriented publications. In addition to the recently announced partnership with McSweeney’s, Salon and the BN Rev ...
Resources Narrative Magazine Coming Soon to An iPhone or iPad Near You By Craig Morgan Teicher on Apr. 21, 2010 - 8:42 AM Looking for another way to avoid reading stuff in print, or do you need another literary app for your shiny new iPad? Narrative Magazine has the solution. Narrative is a robust print and online literary journal that publishes firs ...
Bookselling New Stephen King Novella Out Now on Kindle By Craig Morgan Teicher on Apr. 20, 2010 - 10:00 AM Stephen King’s new novella, Billy Blockade, comes out on May 25 in an illustrated hardcover edition, but if you don’t want to wait that long, and you own an Amazon Kindle or a device with a Kindle app on it, you can ow ...
Book Biz McSweeney’s Explains Salon.com Agreement By Craig Morgan Teicher on Apr. 19, 2010 - 12:00 PM Last week, McSweeney’s and Salon.com announced a new agreement that would put new McSweeney’s content online at Salon. A question arose on Twitter as to whether or how McSweeney’s writers would be compensated. (C ...
Digital Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax Comes to iPhone and iPad By Craig Morgan Teicher on Apr. 19, 2010 - 9:47 AM Ocean House Media has just released an eBook app of Seuss’s classic book The Lorax for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. The app, which is universal, meaning it works on both iPad and iPhone, costs $3.99 and offers the same kinds ...