A year ago, as the e-book industry was just starting to emerge, the biggest obstacle to its success seemed to be copyright law. Specifically, why would authors and book publishers--that is, copyright ...

Whenever bestselling author Robin Cook releases a new medical thriller, the head of the public library in West Haven knows demand for digital copies will be high. So will the price.Like many libraries ...

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department and 15 states, including Ohio, sued Apple Inc. and major book publishers Wednesday, alleging a conspiracy to raise the price of electronic books they said cost ...

From the year after PW’s 125th anniversary issue, 1998—the year when the first handheld e-readers came out, the first library lending of e-books was launched, and e-books first got ISBNs—to today’s ...

If you've noticed a lot more people with their heads buried in electronic readers, instead of hardcovers or paperbacks, then you may already know that the publishing industry is in the middle of a ...

A publishers‘ association is suing Maryland over the state’s new e-book law that requires book publishers to sell public libraries licenses to the same digital content that other customers can ...

The company must now pay $450 million as part of a settlement, but it maintains it did nothing wrong. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered everything from HDTVs to ...

When a company gets a new leader, more often than not, old ways and sometimes old employees, yield to new ones. But, there is a price to pay for that change. Burlington-based Franklin Electronic ...

Are We Headed Toward the Bookless Campus? will be offering hundreds of their textbooks in digital formats, up from a few dozen this past year. The big-five publishers -- Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin, ...

That’s the upshot of Macmillan publishing’s recent decision which represents yet another insult to libraries. For the first two months after a Macmillan book is published, a library can only buy one ...

I was just re-re-rewatching an old favorite movie the other day, The Philadelphia Story. Witty dialogue delivered by skilled and glamorous actors—what more could one ask for on a summer evening? And, ...