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How the E-Book Is Reinventing the Book Business February 09, 2012 
What do Amazon's Kindle, Barnes & Noble's Nook and Apple's iPad have in common? What about authors like Stephen King, Barbara Freethy, C.J. Lyons, Amanda Hocking and Michael Prescott? If you said they represent the changing book publishing industry, you would be right. The book business is going through a major transformation. Who will the winners and losers be among publishers, stores and authors?
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Amazon May Be Going Small With Retail Boutique Experiment February 07, 2012 
Amazon is planning to launch a retail store in Seattle in the coming months, according to reports published by Bloomberg and Good E-Reader. The endeavor is meant to serve as a pilot project for a possible chain of stores that would sell Amazon Exclusive books, as well as its Kindle Fire tablet, line of e-readers, and related accessories.
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Content Intent, Part 2 February 03, 2012 
It can be a little tricky talking about how and why media outlets allow, and indeed encourage, the diffusion of their content throughout the Web. For starters, people tend to be tightlipped about this strategy. No one from CNN, Fox News, MSNBC or Viacom agreed to speak on the record for this article. They are, apparently, much less eager to discuss sharing content than they are to actually share it.
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AOL Dumps a Lighter Load of Bad News February 01, 2012 
AOL delivered a little bit of something for everyone with its Q4 earnings report -- good news, bad news, and hope that its many different initiatives are on track to pay off for the company. First the bad news: AOL reported a profit of US$22.8 million, or 23 cents a share, that was down from the $66.2 million, or 61 cents a share, it earned in the same period a year earlier.
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Content Intent, Part 1 January 27, 2012 
As far as exclusive interviews go, you could do a lot worse than getting Herman Cain, and a lot worse than getting him on Nov. 28. That was, after all, the day that a woman unleashed accusations of a 13-year affair with Cain, the third racy allegation levied against Cain in a matter of weeks. And those charges were but part of the Cain saga. There was also the Nov. 15 Libya gaffe...
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The iBooks Profitability Puzzle January 24, 2012 
Apple's iBooks textbook initiative, launched just last week, has clearly struck a chord in the market. Ditto its accompanying textbook authoring tool, iBooks Author. Both have taken off at a significant pace, according to a report by Global Equities Research. More than 350,000 textbooks have been downloaded via iBooks over the past three days.
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New Apple Offerings Could Retool Education January 20, 2012 
Apple's release of some new tools for the education market has the potential to transform both the teaching and learning experiences in the nation's schools, according to William Rankin, an academic at the forefront of bringing technology to the college campus.
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Apple Goes Back to School With E-Textbook Apps January 19, 2012 
Apple has entered the textbook world with free apps for creating and managing e-textbooks. Apple SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller took the stage at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City Thursday to present iBooks 2 for iPad, a product that manages digital textbooks, and iBooks Author, a tool designed to help authors produce textbooks for the iPad.
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Can Apple School the Academic World? January 13, 2012 
Apple, in its typical cryptic way, announced Wednesday that it was holding a press event next week on "education." It's anyone's guess what Apple will be announcing at the event scheduled for Jan. 19 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. But if a recent report is accurate, Apple will be pulling the wraps off a new initiative into digital textbooks.
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Amazon's Graceful Dance Around Apple's App Store Rules January 12, 2012 
Because Apple has this pesky rule against running apps on iOS devices that direct you away from Apple's ecosystem to buy competing products without using Apple e-commerce engines to handle the transaction -- and shuffle 30 percent of the sale to Apple's bank account -- it's has been a bit harder to buy Amazon.com-based Kindle e-books to read on an iOS device through the Kindle app.
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Barnes & Noble's Nook: Life Preserver or Dead Weight? January 07, 2012 
The arrival of the Amazon Kindle Fire gave Apple reason to worry, but it may have given Barnes & Noble a reason to completely freak out. Its Nook Tablet Android device arrived about a month after the Kindle Fire was announced, and the Nook may be in a much more vulnerable position than the iPad.
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Would Lopping Off Nook Biz Mean Lights Out for B&N? January 05, 2012 
The Kindle Fire may have singed Barnes & Noble's Nook this holiday season. On Thursday, B&N lowered its fiscal 2012 forecast for Nook sales from $1.8 billion to $1.5 billion. The company is also mulling a spinoff of its Nook e-reader business.
B&N's share price dropped more than 20 percent on the news.
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Traditional Publishers: Refresh Your Business or Fade to Irrelevance January 05, 2012 
This is a followup to an article that I wrote for the E-Commerce Times entitled "Why Publishers Are Afraid of Amazon." In that article, I mention that Amazon is now facilitating those authors who choose to self-publish. If there ever was a watershed time for traditional publishers, it is now.
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Apple Could Bring Order to a Messy Mediascape January 05, 2012 
I thought for sure that Apple's next big media splash without Steve Jobs would be all about an Apple iPad 3. So I was surprised to hear about an upcoming media-focused event slated for the end of this month in New York. There's a smattering of reports that don't actually directly cite anyone on the record, but the nature of the reports and event lead me to believe they're basically true.
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Apple in 2012: Stuffed Pockets, Stiff Competition January 04, 2012 
Despite the loss of its Cofounder and CEO Steve Jobs, 2011 was a kind year to Apple financially. Over the past 12 months, the company enjoyed record iPhone sales, kept the iPad in the top spot in the tablet market, continued to win new patents while bitterly fighting for its existing ones, and logged record Mac sales.
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Kindle Fire Makes Apple Sweat E-Books January 03, 2012 
Apple will hold an event in New York at the end of the month at which it will make some sort of media-related announcement, according to a recent report. Whatever news Apple shares at the event, it may relate heavily with advertising or publishing, because Eddy Cue is said to be involved. Cue's in charge of several of Apple's media units, including the iTunes Store, iBookstore and the company's iAds platform.
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