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 ...

Arguments in a case on electronic publishing before the U.S. Supreme Court last month raised the possibility that the court’s ruling could have broad repercussions for the future of scholarly research ...

A lot of authors are shy when it comes to the idea of publishing their work as an eBook. There’s something nostalgic about a print book – for some people it’s the smell of paper, for some people it’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 ...

The distribution of digital text, images and video. Electronic publishing includes online publications as well as digital media such as CDs and DVDs. Contrast with "printed material" (see treeware).

Obviously, electronic publishing holds promise and problems, and we need to sort those out in view of a range of ancillary issues such as the reward structures of our profession (what counts as a ...

Burlington-based Franklin Electronic Publishers (Amex: FEP), a leader in handheld electronic books, said on Monday it has retained Gerard Klauer Mattison, a New York City-based investment bank as its ...

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 ...

The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, applying Missouri law, has held that a consumer class action alleging false credit reporting is potentially covered under a ...

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 ...