It’s very nice to end the year with an actual rumor, and that’s what we’ve got over at Time Techland that suggests Apple will be releasing 2 new iPads in January and lowering the price of the industry-leading tablet to include an ‘entry level’ machine.
December 2011 archive
Dec 30
4 Million Kindles sold in December.
Publisher’s Weekly posted Amazon’s claim that 4-million Kindles were sold in December. This staggering million-per-week total surpassed expectations, and heralds the mainstream adoption of the eBook.
Dec 29
eBook buying options.
GoodeReader offers a list of eBook buying options for anyone who joined the eBook Revolution over the holidays–meaning, received an eBook Reader. (Of note, they have listed distributors that offer titles in the universal formats ePUB and PDF.)
Dec 28
Quality will drive eBook Revolution in 2012
A BusinessWire survey at MarketWatch reports that quality will drive the eBook Revolution in 2012. This after the big publishers jammed their work into the online eBook stores with little in the way of editing and formatting. That oversight stood out when they then turned around and asked the public to pay hard cover prices. …
Dec 26
The Variant Effect Sequel Begins.
(Free stuff for the holidays from our friend G. Wells!) DAWN OF A NEW DAY IN THE VARIANT EFFECT: GREENMOURNING Captain Joe Borland and the squad return to action in The Variant Effect: GREENMOURNING by G. Wells Taylor. Download the first 10-chapter installment of the Variant Effect sequel FREE at GreenMourning.com and SkinEaters.com. “Borland grumbled …
Dec 25
Happy Holidays from eBook Rumors
You’re probably all out there getting the hang of your new Kindles, Nooks, Kobos, iPads, Sony eReaders and tablets. (The list goes on…) Well, it seems the first rite of passage is the eager exploration of the ever-expanding library of FREE eBooks. Here are some web sites where you’ll find a wide selection of FREE …
Dec 23
E Ink beats the tablet for simple readability.
EFYTimes News offers us a post that compares the Kindle E Ink eReading experience to the Kindle Fire Tablet, and tells us why the E Ink eReading devices are here to stay. Some good reasoning here, and I agree on all fronts though I cite the readability factor as making my E Ink eReader (Kobo) …
Dec 22
eBook Revolution news for the holidays…
Auctionbytes posted that Amazon is pitching its Kindle eReaders to the last minute shopper with a 2-day shipping deal. Mobiledia has an update on the investigation into Apple’s pricing policies. Forbes reports that eBooks are putting the public back in library. And WebProNews says Google is finally offering offline support for its Google eBooks for Chrome and Chrome OS.
Dec 21
Are eBooks too cheap? Not by a long stretch…
The Huffington Post gets into the eBook pricing discussion with this feature on whether eBook prices are too cheap. In a marketplace where the big publishers routinely overprice their titles, this headline only makes sense when put into context with the .99 discount price often set by Indie authors desperate to build a following. That …
Dec 20
Apple iPad3 rumored to be smaller…
The Christian Science Monitor has posted on a rumor about the Apple iPad3 thought to be slated for a 2012 release. It’s going to be smaller (Like the Amazon Kindle Fire?) with a 7-inch screen. Apple has not confirmed the story.
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