Mar 29
Digital Book World offers this post on the current state of publishing for authors (traditional and Indie) and predicts a bright future for hybrids.
Mar 27
Paid Content offers a post on what’s next in digital publishing. New payment models, platforms and more leading up to paidContent Live on April 17 in New York City.
Mar 26
GoodeReader reports on a grassroots effort by educators that created low-cost, high quality eTextbooks for students.
Mar 25
PBS MediaShift says that despite rumors to the contrary the eBook Revolution is underway in France with 1 in 5 people having taken a dip in the digital waters and read an eBook. There’s still a lot of resistance with half the population polled saying they’d never adopt the technology, but that’s a familiar story …
Mar 24
GoodeReader has a post on Amazon Kindle Singles editor-in-chief David Blum and the popularity of the eShort stories (5,000 and 30,000 words).
Mar 22
Mediabistro reports that almost half of Americans plan to buy an eBook this year. Digital Book World says publisher Simon & Schuster is bringing anti-piracy data to authors. Anything to sink their hooks deeper into their stock of writers. The Economist posted on developments in electronic lending and libraries. The challenges continue. GoodeReader reports that …
Mar 21
Digital Book World reports that Amazon has added a “Send to Kindle” button to allow Kindle owners to forward links, data and content to their Kindles for later consumption.
Mar 20
GoodeReader says that eMusic and K-NFB Reading have teamed up to restructure audio book and technology provider Blio to form a new entity Media Arc.
Mar 19
Digital Book World cites Bowker Market Research that says online “e-Retailers” sold more “books” in the US than bricks and mortar retail stores for 2012.
Mar 18
GoodeReader offers this cool video comparison of Apple’s iPad 3 and the Asus MemoPad Smart 10.1 edition.
