Publishers

LETTER-BUG TELLS ALL ON MASSIVE CELEB FORGERY (New York Post)

24 Jul 2008

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - but don't tell that to the city's memorabilia dealers and publishers. The literary world is steamed over a forthcoming book by Upper West Side biographer Lee Israel, "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" in which...

Sony Opens Up E-Book Reader To Other Online Stores; Still Limited (CBS News)

24 Jul 2008

Finally, a competitive move from Sony (NYSE: SNE) worth writing about, though it has its own caveats: it is opening up Sony Reader, its e-book reading device which is a competitor to Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) Kindle, to other third party book stores. A new software update to the Reader will enable it to display books encoded in a format being adopted by several large publishers, meaning users can buy ...

Digital Comics Coming to the Wii in Japan (PC World via Yahoo! News)

24 Jul 2008

Four of Japan's biggest comic book publishers are coming together to bring digital versions of their magazines to Nintendo's...