Speaking of the Kindle, Amazon will be hosting a media event in New York City on February 9. Despite Amazon’s secrecy so far regarding the topic of the event, speculation abounds that it will be to announce the next generation of the e-book reader. For months, there has also been speculation on what the device’s [...]

As Motoko Rich writes in a recent New York Times article, “The point may soon come when there are more people who want to write books than there are people who want to read them.” Rich is referring to the recent rise in self-publishing despite the rest of the publishing industry feeling the effects of [...]

The e-book business is growing. In turn, business for e-book reader devices is also growing. Amazon.com sold out of its e-book reader, the Kindle, last month after Oprah Winfrey gave it a favorable review. Currently, the website gives up to a seven-week wait for the new Kindles to be shipped. Amazon’s supply issues during the [...]

Brad Meltzer, a mystery and suspense novelist, created a website for his first book, Tenth Justice, back in 1996. That may have been the first author website ever. “The days of just holing up and writing in solitude are gone,” he says in a New York Times interview. “Today, you can’t be a successful writer [...]

Lev Grossman had a great article in Time magazine last week about his predictions for the future of the publishing industry amidst current financial and technological changes. Grossman is a qualified commentator on the subject, as he is both the book critic for Time and one of its NerdWorld bloggers. He’s also a bestselling novelist. [...]