Oct 04
Boingboing reports on Amazon’s popular new $50 Kindle Fire tablet’s inability to open side-loaded, non-Kindle eBooks from its premium SDXC card slot. An oversight? Unlikely, Amazon’s just playing monopoly again.
Oct 02
Softpedia reports a recent update to the Calibre eBook conversion software offers support for Amazon Kindle KFX format.
Sep 30
GoodeReader reports that Simon & Schuster (co-conspirator in the Apple eBook price-fixing scandal) believes that raising its eBook prices is effective. It’s effective if the publisher’s plan is to gouge consumers and slow the growth of the eBook Revolution by undermining competition in the marketplace. Effective also if they want to encourage eBook Piracy.
Sep 29
Graphics posted on Vellum 1.3 eBook creation software updated to design for Mac.
Sep 28
Talking New Media reports on the launch of a new digital publishing platform called Pronoun.
Sep 25
Fortune gives the real story on a report from the Association of American Publishers that eBook sales are slowing. It seems that is not the case. Instead, market share for “established publishers has been declining, while sales of independently published e-books have been growing.” Go Indies!
Sep 23
Talking New Media reports on the state of digital publishing. The eBook Revolution continues to mature.
Sep 22
Liliputing reports on the impending closure of the Oyster eBook subscription service. It looks like the all-you-can-eat “Netflix for books” they offered is too hard to swallow. The commitment of time require for reading books makes adoption of such subscription services nonsensical for all but the most voracious readers. It’s impossible to make a $9.99 monthly membership pay unless you read a minimum of …
Sep 21
GalleyCat reports on the release of the Associated Press Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law as an interactive eBook.
