Amazon.com announced that its Kindle was the most gifted item this holiday season as well as the most gifted item in the website’s history. Amazon.com also announced that on Christmas Day, more of its customers purchased e-books than physical books. It’s unclear if those “purchases” include the free Kindle e-books offered on the site, however. [...]

Google was ordered by a Paris court to pay 300,000 euros (about $430,000 USD) in damages to a French publisher, La Martiniere. A judge ruled that Google violated French copyright law with its Book Search. The company will also be fined 10,000 euros (about $14,340 USD) per day until extracts from La Martiniere’s books are [...]

Business author Stephen R. Covey has given the e-book rights for two of his most best-selling books to Amazon.com instead of his print publisher Simon & Schuster. The Amazon Kindle will have exclusive e-book formats of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and Principle-Centered Leadership for one year. The books will be e-published through [...]

The battle over digital rights is brewing again. As e-books become more popular and more profitable, authors and publishers seem unable to agree on who actually owns the electronic rights to backlist titles. The New York Times sums up the issue in a recent article: Backlist titles, which continue to be reprinted long after their [...]

Guest Author Series:  Ali Pervez, author of Get Your Black Belt in Marketing Do you remember when you got that call, e-mail, or letter from the publisher saying that you had been “picked up” as a published author!  I do. In fact, I have the e-mail from Morgan James New York framed and pinned to [...]