Kobo still hasn't announced its ebook subscription service, but that is okay because I have another scoop for you. Kobo Plus is now listed as a distribution option in Kobo Writing Life, Kobo's publishing portal, and I have a copy of the Kobo Plus contract addendum T&C. You'll find the text at the end of this post, but the tl;dr version is that Kobo is going to pay authors out of a pool funded by subscriber payments. The math determining the payment is rather complicated, but I can report that the payment will be triggered when a Kobo Plus subscriber has read 20% of the book. Also, a book has to be in Kobo Plus for at least six months but there is no mention of an exclusivity requirement. The payment terms are similar to the terms offered by Amazon for Kindle Unlimited (since July 2015), which pays based on the number of pages read and is funded by a finite pool. And that is good news for the long-term health of Kobo Plus. As we learned from Oyster and Scribd, companies need to keep their expenses in line with..

Думаю, все уже прочитали рассказ @mshevelev_bot, а кто не успел, тем рекомендую. Как правильно назвать такой жанр? Рассказы из сообщений? SMS-lit? Messages narration? Филологи, надеюсь, придумают название. И вот ещё в копилку: монстр онлайнового самиздата Wattpad выпустил приложение Tap с целой библиотечкой таких рассказов. Для начала бесплатно, потом по подписке. Полку приложений типа Amazon Rapids и Hooked прибавилось. Среди прочих разновидностей сетевой литературы этому жанру ещё далеко до фанфиков. Но кто…

The EFA is a national not-for-profit organization, headquartered in New York City, run almost entirely by member volunteers, all of whom are also freelancers. The EFA’s members, experienced in a wide range of professional skills, live and work all across the United States and in other countries.

Mozilla has acquired Pocket, a kind of DVR for the internet, for an undisclosed sum. The nine-year-old company, which makes tools for saving articles and videos to view them later, is Mozilla’s...

Series are mobile stories that can be added to over time and unfold card by card with the tap of your finger

Группа "Эксмо-АСТ" выкупила домен одного из крупнейших российских книжных интернет-магазинов — Read.ru. На нем она планирует развивать собственный онлайн-ритейл, запущенный несколько месяцев назад под брендом Book24. Компания "Логос-Интернет", ранее управлявшая Read.ru, столкнулась с претензиями кредиторов, включая крупные книжные издательства, и попала под процедуру наблюдения.

As we near London Book Fair, the adult coloring book tide has receded, but these Danish hygge titles are plentiful. Who's missing out? Danish publishers.

Color Our Collections project lets you download free coloring books based on collections from famous libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions.

Издатели, кажется, пока не заметили этого происшествия. Но заметят рано или поздно. Существенный кусок индустрии пошёл трещинами. Это просто Google включил в работу сервиса Translate нейронную сеть. Нет-нет, перевод вовсе не стал идеальным. Но он стал вполне связным. Судите сами:

Back in September last year, Mike wrote about the remarkable court ruling in India that copyright is not inevitable, divine or a natural...

Крупнейший в РФ продавец электронной литературы "ЛитРес" собирается вывести на рынок новый формат книг — fb3, которым надеется охватить читателей, не удовлетворенных применяющимися сейчас форматами, включая ePub и отечественный fb2. В этом году компания планирует вложить в технологию до 50 млн руб. Разработчику придется убедить издателей в преимуществах нового формата перед широко распространенным в мире ePub.

eBooks make up a significant share of trade book sales in the US, UK, and other English-speaking countries but things are quite different in Spain. Dosdoce's Javier Celaya revealed at a PubMagNet meeting last month that ebooks are expected to reach a double-digit share of Spain's book market in 2016. The final data won't be available until June, but Celaya said that ebook sales should reach 10%, up from around 6% of Spain's book sales in 2015. The Spanish book market as a whole is expected to grow by 3 to 3.5% in 2016, compared to 2.8% growth in 2015. Basically, the market is only growing as a result of digital sales, Basically, the market is only growing as a result of digital sales, and only because publishers started getting sensible about their digital opportunities. Celaya also pointed out a peculiarity of Spain's digital book market: many Spanish publishers have reported that more than 60% of their digital sales are made internationally. Half of those international sales are coming from Latin America, with..