Amazon unveils Kindle MatchBook, turning physical books you’ve purchased over the years into digital copies Amazon.com is already doing it with CDs. Now, it’s turning its focus to books. The Seattle online retailer today unveiled a… Read More
Here’s the obscure book that Bill Gates is gushing about this summer Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is a voracious reader, carrying a tote bag of books on his travels across the globe.… Read More
Here are the 8 interesting books Bill Gates is reading this summer It’s always fun learning which books are in Bill Gates’ giant tote bag of old-fashioned books he lugs around, and… Read More
Barnes & Noble CEO resigns as bookseller looks to find footing Can Barnes & Noble find its path forward? Well, if the bookseller does so, it will be under the guidance… Read More
Publishing power move? Amazon raising prices on some books Amazon.com has built its success in the book business over the years through dramatic price cuts, a strategic move which… Read More
The weight of words: Why I hope bookstores stick around I was taking video of my baby’s small, assisted zig-zag steps between the shelves at Ravenna’s Third Place Books when… Read More
This startup mines your Twitter stream to tell you what books to read Struggling to figure out what books to take to the lake house this summer? Well, you might want to consider… Read More
Reading revolution: e-book market set to pass print books by 2017 As the e-book battle between Apple and the U.S. Justice Department continues in court this week, new reports are out showing… Read More
Bookworms unite! Amazon says these are the nation’s most well-read cities Knoxville is full of romantic people, Cambridge has lots of entrepreneurs and Alexandria is a flat-out well-read city. Those are… Read More
Barnes & Noble is giving away a free e-reader if you buy a Nook HD+ tablet Barnes & Noble, the struggling bookstore chain, is looking to supercharge its tablet and e-reader business in the face of… Read More
Video game vet creates books you can play with, reaches $10K Kickstarter goal in 4 days It all added up for Joe Booth. Having spent 25 years in the video game industry at places like Microsoft,… Read More
Amazon.com under attack for plan to own .book, .read and other domain name extensions Amazon.com is already the 800 pound gorilla in the book selling and publishing business. And now some author groups are… Read More
Report: Barnes & Noble considers future of the Nook Nearly a year after Microsoft agreed to invest $300 million in Barnes & Noble’s Nook business unit, the bookseller is seriously… Read More
Hey, Seattle: We’re not quite as book smart as 8 years ago Think of Seattle. And whether it’s Amazon.com or Elliott Bay Book Company or the amazing main Seattle library, reading is a… Read More
The Elance for publishing: Writer.ly offers marketplace for authors needing help It’s not easy for an author to put out a commercially successful product. Not only does he or she have… Read More
Bill Gates says you should read these 5 books in 2013 I wish I knew how many books Bill Gates has read in his life. The man inspires me to read… Read More
More than just books: Pew study details how technology has changed libraries We’ve seen brick-and-mortar booksellers close down all over the country due to online retailers like Amazon. Will public libraries follow… Read More
Attack reviews on Amazon: An epic Michael Jackson biography sparks debate Reviews on Amazon.com can make or break an author’s career, but the motivations of those leaving the comments aren’t always… Read More
Borrow books: Amazon testing Kindle rental service Speed readers rejoice: Amazon seems to be testing out a new rental service for books. The Seattle retail giant already… Read More
Need a good read? Amazon unveils top 10 best-selling books of 2012 Here’s what we learned from Amazon’s top-10 best-selling books of 2012: People love bad boy romance novels and independent publishers… Read More
VC Brad Feld: Startup hubs need to be led by entrepreneurs Politicians, investors and professors are extremely important elements of a thriving startup ecosystem. But, at the end of the day,… Read More
History: Did Amazon try to buy Netflix for $12M in 1999? Just imagine what could have been? A new book to be released this week by Reuters reporter Gina Keating suggests… Read More
This is the best book Bill Gates read this summer Bill Gates likes to read and share his book recommendations with the rest of us, and this week he revealed… Read More
Katniss vs. Harry: Hunger Games outsells Harry Potter on Amazon It’s happened. Something has outsold the Harry Potter series on Amazon. And that something is Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series.… Read More
Voracious reader Bill Gates shares his favorite books of the summer Want to get inside the mind of one of the world’s richest men? Just take a look at his bookshelf.… Read More
Amazon.com buys rights to 3,000 romance, mystery and western book titles Amazon.com continues to gobble up book titles, this time sealing deal for some 3,000 backlist titles from Avalon Books in… Read More
Consumer suit vs. Apple and book publishers gets the go-ahead It’s game on for a class-action lawsuit against Apple and several major publishers accused of colluding to illegally fix prices… Read More
The nation’s most well-read cities, as ranked by Amazon.com Residents of Boulder, Colo., were singled out a year ago by Amazon.com for ordering more cooking, food and wine books… Read More
Q&A: Microsoft lessons from Employees 154160 and 191855 Recently we received a news release about a new book called Stack Rank This! Memoirs of a Microsoft Couple. Apart from… Read More
Kindle Fire software update allows readers to share favorite passages Amazon has begun pushing out a new update specifically for Kindle Fire owners that adds the ability to share favorite… Read More
