The PW Morning Report: Monday, October 26, 2009

By Craig Morgan Teicher -- Publishers Weekly, 10/26/2009 6:30:00 AM

No Weak Links! Powell’s on the Pricing Wars; Amazon Working on Kindle App for Mac; 4% of British Have Read E-Book; The New Yorker Fest; HP Does Book Scanning; Bloomberg on E-Readers; R. Crumb Reviewed.

Powell’s on the Book Pricing Wars
The Oregonian caught up with indie bookseller Powell’s to find out how the store was affected by the ongoing price wars between big box retailers.

Amazon Working on Kindle App for Mac
Following the announcement of Amazon’s Kindle app for PCs, Fast Company reports that Amazon is also working on an app for Macs. The rest of this article gets kinda techy, though if you’re up for it, it points to some interesting possibilities for Kindle in the future.

4% of British People Read An E-Book
…in the last month, according to the Bookseller, but few of them actually paid for it.

The New Yorker Festival: A Subjective Take
The Rumpus reviews the New Yorker Festival in its inimitable style.

HP Gets into Book Scanning
According to BNET, Hewlett-Packard is working with the University of Michigan's library on a book scanning project of its own called BookPrep, following in Google’s footsteps, and apparently trying hard to avoid Google’s pitfalls.

Bloomberg on E-Readers
Bloomberg News looks at the state of the e-reader business, and how the current devices fall short of what we really need.

Review of the Day: Hajdu on R. Crumb’s Genesis
Comics legend R. Crumb has just published his much-anticipated graphic version of the Book of Genesis, and David Hajdu has just reviewed it for the New York Times.

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