A daily roundup of book and publishing news from across the Web: Harlequin & Ballantine do e-originals; ‘Fast Company’ on B&N’s entry into self-publishing; LibreDigital secures funding; Late JG Farrell wins Britain’s Lost Man Booker; Stanford to create “bookless” library
In the Wall Street Journal Jeffrey Trachtenberg looks at the original digital works the two publishers are releasing, intending as “bridges” to forthcoming novels.
Fast Company’s Kit Eaton gives her two cents on Barnes & Noble’s new electronic self-publishing program.
LibreDigital secures funding
The digital content publisher has secured $8.1 million in funding.
The deceased British writer wins the award, open to books published in 1970, for his 40-year-old novel, Troubles.
The university is creating an electronic library that, according to the San Jose Mercury News, “can accommodate the vast, expanding and interrelated literature of Physics, Computer Science and Engineering.”
