I’ve just been trying to visit Greg Gibson’s Ten Pound Island Book Company web site. Like most people, I used Google to find the site,…

Almost every week a web page announces the closure of another bookstore. This week we have Queen Anne in Seattle and Capital Comics in Raleigh,…

I received this book in the post earlier this week, the day after I ordered it through ABE UK from Charles Bossom Books. It arrived…

I recently began  updating the design and function of the Parnassus Book Service website, simplifying the look and updating the code to use HTML5 and…

Crowdfunding, the use of a funding portal to raise money for a cause or a business, is now a form of investment recognized by the…

I’ve just been reading John Carrolls’s article, “Why I hate Apple” (www.zdnet.com/blog/carroll/why-i-now-hate-apple/1925) and Nilay Patel’s “Apple vs HTC: a patent breakdown” (www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/apple-vs-htc-a-patent-breakdown/), both from 2010…

The story of how Barnes & Nobles e-book version of Tolstoy’s War and Peace replaced all uses of the word ‘kindle’ with the work ‘nook’…

Friday I attended the first meeting of the Welsh Initiative for the Digital Arts and Humanities (WIDAH) featuring academics from across Wales with an interest…

Studies of the book industry emphasize, almost without exception, the publishing business model. The author provides the content to the publisher and the bookstore distributes…