ABPA To Hold Business of E-readers Discussion
Feb 06, 2012
Feb 06, 2012
On Tuesday, February 7 the American Book Producers Association will hold the next session in their brown bag lunch session. The topic is "The Business of E-readers" and features Lisa Faith Phillips, director of digital strategy and development at Hachette Book Group. To RSVP for the event, please email office@abpaonline.org or call 917-741-1919.
The Roundup for Devices
Publishing news from across the Web
Amazon has pushed out an over-the-air update to the Kindle Fire that enables, along with tweaks and fixes, full-screen browsing in the Web browser.
A Sacramento library will house an Espresso Book Machine. From the Sacramento Bee.
From the Atlantic: the Selectric typewriter came out 50 years ago this week.
The Wall Street Journal says Amazon will introduce a 9" Android-powered tablet by October to compete with the iPad.
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