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03 Dec 09

On The Media: Book It

Too many books, not enough profits. That is the lament of many publishers these days. Plus, there's the fear and loathing engendered by e-books. So, what is the state of the book industry and what can we expect in the coming years? Brooke takes a look at the present and future of books.

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  • Book It



    Too many books, not enough profits. That is the lament of many publishers these days. Plus, there's the fear and loathing engendered by e-books. So, what is the

    state of the book industry and what can we expect in the coming years? Brooke takes a look at the present and future of books.

  • Books 2.0



    In the future, reading and writing will be a social activity, the hierarchy between authors and readers will disappear, readers will help write a book while they're reading it. Skeptical? You're not the first. Bob Stein of The Institute for the Future of the Book is used to skepticism, but he's

    seen the future and he's here to talk about it.

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22 Sep 09

Promoting ‘Transition,’ by Iain Banks, on a Serial Podcast - NYTimes.com

  • in what it is calling an industry first, a publisher is giving away an abridged version of an audio book in the hope that listeners become so enamored with what they hear that they will pay for more.
03 Apr 09

Swedes desert web as anti-piracy law comes into action

  • On the day the law came into force, five audiobook publishers went to court to try to determine the identity of someone they claim has 2,000 audio books stored on a server.
  • chairman of the Swedish Publishers' Association said that the illegal sharing of audiobooks has increased in the last year prompting legal measures. “It has hit writers, publishers, and Internet book retailers financially, and there is a longer-term risk that publication will decline”
13 Feb 09

Authors Guild and Amazon Disagree Over Kindle's Text-to-Speech Software

  • The Authors Guild is warning its members that Kindle 2’s Text-to-Speech function is an unauthorized use of audio rights and may be “undermining” publishers' audio markets.
14 Jul 08

Borders launches audiobook download service online

  • Book retailer Borders Group Inc. launched its audiobook download service on its Web site Monday, making 15,000 audiobooks available.
23 Jun 08

Blackstone Audio phases out audiobook DRM - Boing Boing

  • Blackstone was phasing out its use of DRM
  • Blackstone is contacting the rightsholders for all its titles notifying them that they'll be releasing their catalog in DRM-free MP3
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16 Jun 08

DRM-free Audiobooks on the Rise - 6/10/2008 - Library Journal

  • Countdown continues for DRM-free audiobooks at libraries
  • eMusic and Random House have so far been focusing their DRM-free efforts strictly on the consumer market, leaving the library market to Playaway and OverDrive
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27 May 08

Borders Web Site Now Live

  • After seven years of outsourcing its e-commerce function to Amazon, Borders relaunched its Borders.com Web site today under its own control.
  • has the ability to download digital audio either in DRM or DRM-free formats
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30 Apr 08

Star Wars Book to be Put Online for Free

  • Betrayal for free as an audio book, eBook, and PDF download. Betrayal, which was a New York Times Bestseller, is the first book in the series and the free download will be available for two weeks until May 13, when the ninth and final book, Invicible, is released
07 Apr 08

Take my book. It's free. / Giving away books as podcasts is new way to promote sales

This deals with one of our authors here at Crown/random House. We gave away a DRM-free PDF of his book for about 4 days in advance of pub. Very successful.

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  • Take my book. It's free.
  • A free digital manuscript of the book was downloaded 45,000 times in just 100 hours since the Crown book was released,
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