Mar 01
Our friend Jorgen directed us to this Huffington Post piece: “Exploring the Future of Book Publishing at Tools of Change Conference” by Smashwords founder Mark Coker where he offers commentary and personal highlights from the recent Tools of Change book publishing conference. Coker has made headlines inking deals with publishing industry giants to raise Smashwords profile …
Feb 28
The $1.99 eBook Sale at GWellsTaylor.com has been held over for another week! Originally slated to end March 1, 2010, the sale has been extended to March 8, 2010 due to popular demand. Novel length horror, scifi and mystery available in multi-format for $1.99 per title.
Feb 27
Thanks Jorgen for this link to a post at the guardian.co.uk detailing document sharing site Scribd.com’s foray into the mobile service. The article suggests this is Scribd.com’s challenge to competing services offered by Amazon and Apple and with millions of members and lots of titles, they may just give them a run for the money. …
Feb 26
Thanks Jorgen for a link to a post at IT.TMCNET.COM where Penguin Publishing boss John Makinson waxes poetic about the coming digital age. An interesting read, if it does continue to have the paternalistic tone that we so often hear from fat cats of the ‘bricks and mortar’ days. (You know the fat cats who are …
Feb 25
And I thought we’d have to worry about them cloning people. Infibeam Pi is a new eBook Reader with a familiar look for the burgeoning eBook Marketplace. (Come on, it’s a Kindle right down to the smile…) Announced in January, as India’s first eBook Reader it has a familiar list of functions as well.  (Not …
Feb 24
Toronto, Canada, February 22, 2010 –(PR.com)– Wattpad, the world’s most popular ebook community, today announces an ebook distribution agreement with Sony Electronics. A selection of top unique Wattpad titles will be available on Sony’s Reader Store starting today. “We are very excited to bring popular Wattpad titles to new audiences,†said Allen Lau, CEO and …
Feb 23
The eBook Revolution as it applies to students and small publishers was brought to my attention by a couple of small  publishers of textbooks responding to my post “Apple iPad Will Use DRM… Ahoy eBook Pirates! Come and get ‘em!” (Okay, maybe the title’s a bit provocative…) It has been theorized that schools and students would …
Feb 21
Our friend Jorgen dropped this link off to a story at Computerworld describing the ongoing attempt by eBook retailers to control how and where we read the eBooks they sell us. The article exposes industry leaders tinkering with the once universal and open EPUB format so that it requires a password to access, in some …
Feb 20
The Guardian.co.uk’s Books Blog has an excellent eBook Piracy perspective piece entitled: “Who’s afraid of digital book piracy?” It’s a well-written article that manages to dispel some of the hysteria surrounding the topic by applying old-fashioned common sense and a bit of research. Inflammatory notions like piracy are often brought up by corporate thinkers as …
Feb 19
Thanks Jorgen for dropping off this link to a Business Week story that predicts the shape of things to come for Amazon.com. According to the article analysts from Credit Suisse Group AG see Amazon’s market share of eBook sales slide from 90 percent in 2009 to 72 percent in the coming year. While you read …
