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Library e-book downloads 'skyrocket'
The number of US library patrons seeking to borrow downloadable digital content increased by 76% in 2008.
Free audio downloads of Booker shortlist
'Teaser audio downloads' of the titles shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize are available to download to your mobile phone -- type gospoken.com/a/mbp08 into your mobile web...
Bloomsbury launches academic imprint with a Creative Commons twist
Bloomsbury has announced that it is moving into the acadmic market with the luanch of an 'on-demand' imprint that will publish titles online for free under a Creative Commons license.
Booker shortlist for free mobile download
Extracts from all this year's Booker-shortlisted titles will be made availiable for free download to UK mobile phone users.
Some Random House audiobooks to be DRM-free
A number of Random House audiobook titles will soon be available for purchase and download in a DRM-free format via a Canadian-based internet retailer.
Kindle news
More news on Amazon's Kindle e-reader, including the figure that Kindle e-book downloads now account for 6% of all book sales on Amazon and a projection that 250,000 Kindles will sell in 2008.
Zinio puts classics online for free
Online publishing, distribution and retail-services company Zinio has launched a range of over 100 classics downloadable as free e-books in order to showcase its technology.
Better than free
Tech pundit Kevin Kelly sets out his key principals for maintaining value in an online world where free seems to be the expectation: When copies are super abundant, they become worthless. When copies ...
Fiction first chapters free from Penguin
Penguin UK is to offer free downloads of the first chapter of every fiction title it publishes.
Piracy is 'caused by lack of choice'
A new survey of computer users in the UK has revelealed that a clear majority of people who download content illegally do so because they feel that 'legal sites just don't have the range of illegal on...
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