Reading service aims to create the “YouTube of storytelling”
Oolipo, a subscription-based mobile reading service from German publisher Bastei Lübbe, will launch in July of next year, The Bookseller’s Lisa Campbell reports. In a sidebar profile, Oolipo’s Chief Product Officer Ryan… Read more »
The next Zoella book is being published this November
The council of bookselling elders took their seats around the ceremonial stone table. The firelight cast a shifting, uneasy glow across the table’s surface, no doubt echoing the group’s collective… Read more »
And the fastest selling debut novelist of all time is…Zoella!
British ladies have the novel game down, it seems. Agatha Christie: top selling novelist of all time. To say nothing of Rowling, Smith, Austen…the list goes on. So which of… Read more »
A report from Google on its anti-piracy measures leaves some questions unanswered
Last week, Google released a report that appears to have been aimed at pacifying some of its critics who claim that the company doesn’t do enough to combat piracy. The… Read more »
THE HOLLYWOOD ECONOMIST: Hollywood, SOPA, and the Pirates of the Internet
A “2.0 edition” of Edward Jay Epstein’s The Hollywood Economist releases on January 24th. Below Epstein discusses why Hollywood is so intent on passing something like SOPA legislation. * * *… 2 / Read more »