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Transform Your Entire Blog Into an eBook in 90 Seconds With This Free Tool

UK startup called Beacon has developed an extension that can automatically turn an entire blog into a beautifully branded eBook in only 90 seconds.

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Do E-Books Earn More Money at Lower Prices?

There's a fierce debate about what e-books should cost. The big publishers' bet on higher prices is not paying off, at least in terms of profit.

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Online Crowds Saving the Past’s Visions of the Future

The digital publication of a science fiction book from 1955 illustrates how far the Internet's denizens will go to keep literature in circulation.

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The Price Point: What Coverage of Print Books’ Improved Sales Ignored

Coverage of the resurgence of print largely ignores the fact that 2014 was the first full year of dramatically higher e-book prices.

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This Startup Will Digitize Your Towering Piles Of Unread Books

The Japanese call it “tsundoku” — the act of buying books, letting them pile up and eyeing them wistfully while never

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Freshly Minted: For This Book Subscription Platform, The Publishing World Is...

Welcome to Freshly Minted, where we examine an overlooked deal or funding announcement in tech from the past week, and

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Subscription Book Service ‘Oyster’ Comes to Android

  Oyster is fast on its way to claiming the grandiose title of “The Netflix of Books,” contrary to what

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Artist Turns Photocopied 1984 Pages Into Ebook in Protest

Digitizing books and information has big benefits, like worldwide access to data and learning tools, the democratization of publishing and

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Reading Habits Indicate Android Users Are Fun, iPhone Users Are Lifehacking...

In the war between iOS and Android, there are a few things we know: iPhone users are big spenders, live

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Oyster Launches on Desktop, Makes Books Look More Like Blog Posts

Oyster is on a roll lately. They’ve been signing up new publishers, launching new apps, getting good reviews — they’ve even gotten

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Why'd Apple Buy Beats and Booklamp? Probably to Build a Massive Subscription...

Welcome to Freshly Minted, where we examine an overlooked deal or funding announcement in tech from the past week and

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Oyster Launches a Lit Mag For Their Erudite E-Readers

There’s something about ebook reading that’s still icky for some finicky readers who fancy themselves intellectuals. Maybe it’s that the ~handfeel~ of an iPad

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Product Hunt Will Launch a New Vertical Soon, Probably Books [UPDATE]

Product Hunt is going to release a new vertical, shortly, and it is fairly likely that it will be for books. Founding team member Erik Torenberg said at an event for its new games channel that “Books...

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In the E-Book Economy, Big Authors Lose Money to Big Publishers Losing Ground

Major publishers are keeping more money from authors on e-book sales than on printed books, but they are also steadily losing market share in digital publishing, on Amazon.

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Hugh Howey Has No Patience for Book Lovers Who Don’t Read Books

The bestselling fiction writer says that the day will come when no one talks about the format of books anymore.

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