http://www.psfk.com Your Go-To Source For New Ideas And Inspiration Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:00:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/self-published-ebook-author-amazon.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:00:23 +0000 Kerry Wilkinson's Jessica Daniel detective novels have sold more than 250,000 copies on Kindle.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/02/american-schools-digital-textbooks-headlines.html Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:00:44 +0000 Some educational institutions in the United States might not be prepared for the now inevitable wave of ebooks. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2012/01/ipad-textbook-students-score-higher-headlines.html Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:30:58 +0000 Apple's tablet geared for the classroom shows promising results in pilot program. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/12/penguin-to-publish-digital-only-editions.html Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:21:49 +0000 The book giant is the latest publisher to embrace quick reads, that are only published as E-books in the hopes they can reach out to a time and cash-starved market.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/seth-godin-what-i-learned-in-my-year-of-revolutionizing-publishing.html Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:30:26 +0000 The online innovator shares key insights about how the Ebook platform is undoubtedly the biggest gamechanger for the print industry.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/11/barnes-nobles-bulks-up-nook-boutiques-for-holidays-headlines.html Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:15:58 +0000 The retailer has expanded retail space ahead of the holiday buying rush.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/romantic-fictions-passion-for-ebooks.html Mon, 10 Oct 2011 15:10:11 +0000 Romance readers have fallen for digital formats as a way to plough through books without being judged for their covers.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/10/springwise-authors-can-now-write-personal-messages-in-e-books.html Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:29:48 +0000 Kindlegraph enables authors to send personalized, digital inscriptions, directly to the reading devices of their fans.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/new-bloomsbury-digital-imprint-revives-hundreds-of-neglected-classics.html Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:02:12 +0000 Work by Edith Sitwell, Monica Dickens and VS Pritchett are among 230 previously out-of-print titles that are launching the publisher's new Ebook list.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/kindle-e-books-available-for-loan-at-local-libraries.html Fri, 23 Sep 2011 15:29:23 +0000 Kindle e-books are being offered on wireless-enabled loan at 11, 000 participating libraries across the US. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/amazon-beta-test-public-library-ebooks-for-kindle.html Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:02:34 +0000 The online retailer has partnered with Overdrive to offer digital lending to readers.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/09/reading-rainbow-returns-on-the-ipad.html Mon, 19 Sep 2011 19:13:55 +0000 Award-winning children's television series will be revamped for tablet use with more interactive multimedia features to encourage children to read. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/why-authors-are-going-directly-to-the-book-seller.html Mon, 22 Aug 2011 16:46:01 +0000 Amazon's deal to publish Timothy Ferriss' next book is a sign that book sellers and authors are cutting the literary agent out of the deal.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/ebooks-stop-us-speculating-about-the-lives-of-fellow-commuters.html Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:06:56 +0000 If you need another reason to worry about the death of print, think of the access to strangers' souls we'll lose when e-readers take over.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/08/apple-faces-lawsuit-for-conspiring-with-major-publishers-to-fix-prices.html Mon, 15 Aug 2011 15:38:21 +0000 HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin and Simon & Schuster are some of the publishers who are accused of conspiring with Apple to fix box prices to compete with Amazon's consumer-friendly prices.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/need-to-know-top-10-popular-posts-of-the-week.html Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:17:55 +0000 A weekly round-up of the top ten most popular posts on PSFK--from culture to technology, art to business this list has it all.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/barnes-nobles-digital-reinvention.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:48:47 +0000 With rival Borders closing its stores, the bookseller focuses on e-books to try to avoid the same fate.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/07/google-teams-up-with-jk-rowlings-pottermore.html Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:34:20 +0000 Google eBooks, Google Checkout and YouTube will benefit from the deal and put yet another multimedia feather in their hat.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/how-self-publishing-came-of-age.html Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:24:13 +0000 What used to be seen as a last resort is fast becoming the most successful trend in writing. Alison Flood talks to the authors doing it themselves.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/ebooks-the-latest-frontier-for-spam-headlines.html Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:26:11 +0000 The ease with which you can license content and repackage it to sell as an ebook has created a growing problem for Amazon and other resellers – spam ebooks. Distributors are worried, too.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/jk-rowling-creates-transmedia-storytelling-site-pottermore-com-dumps-amazon.html Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:55:20 +0000 Harry Potter author shows off interactive site which will not have new material, but will be only place selling digital downloads of novels]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/06/thanks-to-the-internet-were-all-literary-omnivores-now.html Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:48:59 +0000 Where once the book world was controlled by the critical establishment, the IT revolution has shifted power to the people.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/kindle-book-sales-are-now-higher-than-print-books-on-amazon.html Fri, 20 May 2011 15:36:51 +0000 The online retailer announces that eBooks are now outselling hardback and paperback books combined.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/05/secret-mission-me-ebooks-that-help-children-communicate-with-parents.html Mon, 09 May 2011 17:00:37 +0000 An new platform uses the unique features of mobile phones and tablets to make it easier for children and parents to have meaningful conversations about school life.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/amazon-to-let-local-libraries-lend-e-books.html Thu, 21 Apr 2011 11:47:48 +0000 Readers will now be able to borrow books from libraries using only their Kindles]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/ebook-sales-pass-another-milestone.html Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:52:46 +0000 Electronic books have become the largest single format in the US for the first time, new data reveals.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/amazon-to-offer-ad-supported-kindle.html Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:49:08 +0000 A cheaper version of the device will include advertisements on the homepage and screensavers.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/04/pop-up-indie-book-shop-takes-over-dead-big-box-store.html Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:10:10 +0000 A bookseller in Pittsburgh will install their own impromptu shop in a Borders doomed for closure. ]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/amazon-kills-ebook-lending-site-lendle.html Thu, 24 Mar 2011 14:36:17 +0000 Kindle content sharing community site has its API access revoked by online book retailer.]]> http://www.psfk.com/2011/03/ed-cotton-why-magazine-publishing-has-forever-changed.html Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:30:30 +0000 When I took a look at the "about" section of a new soccer magazine, The Blizzard, a magazine designed to be downloaded, I was struck by how they defined their reasons for existence. ]]>