It has won exclusive e-publishing deals from authors such as Stephen King and Stephen Covey.
WSJ: Digital Self-Publishing Shakes Up Traditional Book Industry
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HarperCollins is launching an e-book publishing arm focusing on erotica and erotic romance.
The major new players in e-book publishing Amazon, Apple and Google can easily track how far readers are getting in books, how long they spend reading them and which search terms they use to find books.
With the growing interest in e-readers, amateur publishing can become as powerful as blogging.
For someone in the publishing industry, we believe the news reports and information we offer are essential for navigating the new e-book reality of the book publishing business.
Here are some of the current e-options that have sprung up around traditional publishing and self-publishing.
Partial figures gathered by the International Digital Publishing Forum suggest e-book sales are doing well.
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For book publishing companies, e-readers present another way to sell their products and a way to get things to print faster, as an e-book can be distributed faster than a paper copy.
E-books on the iPad may help give the world of self-publishing a boost, authors and consultants say.
They're publishing low-cost e-books that are hitting all the bestseller lists.
So why is the publishing industry in a huff about e-book library lending?
HarperCollins is one of several major publishing houses that are holding back e-book versions of some new hardcover best sellers.
This was the first free e-text, and none better as a declaration of freedom from the old-boy network of publishing.
For now, a tiny 2% borrow e-books, yet they have the whole book publishing industry and librarians at the nations 120, 000 or so libraries at odds.
But despite the huge growth in e-books in the past few years, the traditional publishing houses are not yet predicting the end of printed book.
The monthly numbers coming out of the Association of American Publishers that track the size and growth of the publishing industry have been charting a slowdown in e-book growth for much of 2012.
In the following piece, history professor and author James Tuten wrestles with guilt over falling in love with his e-reader and muses on the future of reading and publishing.
Worldreader gets e-books from the public domain or donations from publishers, or by digitally publishing work by local authors.
Eventually, e-books point the way towards a cleavage of content from platform, threatening publishing with the wholesale change that has hit the music industry.
Be it the adoption of pricing model in the utilities industry in the world of IT and publishing, the car rental model giving way to vacation rental plans or the music and e-commerce industries coming together, we all have a Chicago butcher story in our lives and many are waiting for that Henry Ford moment to happen.
But Shatzkin, who writes a publishing blog, also noted on the blog that by maintaining the status quo selling e-books to Amazon at hardcover prices and letting Amazon take a loss Random House will be making the most of its short-term sales and profits.
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