Jun 29
This is the most enjoyable review of an eReading device that I’ve come across in a long time. Andy Ihnatko of the Chicago Sun Times hits the nail on the head, and reveals Amazon’s marketing underbelly in this quote: “will consumers think the (Kindle)Â DX is worth $489? Especially in a world where the same amount …
Jun 28
Read a short but effective piece here at the examiner.com in which Miriam van Veen compares digital and traditional publishing. I agree with her conclusions (even if she offers them somewhat hesitantly), and suggest this reluctant acceptance of the eBook revolution as a viable option represents perfectly natural fear of the unknown, while offering tacit approval …
Jun 27
IDW Publishing is offering the prequels to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Sized for iPhone or Ipod Touch you can get these Transformers comics at iTunes! Read all about it, and download samples here. It’s this kind of thing that really gives momentum to the adoption of eBooks and digital publishing.
Jun 26
Longbox Digital Comics was developed as a comic book launch platform (an iTunes for digital comics) rumored to offer issues at .99 each for download to Mac, PC, and Linux. You can read the story here at comicbookresources.com. Individual publishers are free to price their own products, but the smart ones will keep it sensible. We talked about uclick.com doing …
Jun 25
Okay, this is hardly breaking news but Legend Press is entering the eBook market with the release of one (I know just one…) of their titles. They’re including author video among other added features. Read about it here at Bookseller.com. I think it deserves mention for two reasons. First of all, I’m a Dr. Who fan …
Jun 24
A worthy contender in the Digital Reader market stands poised to capture Europe. I like the article “Beyond the Kindle…” here at ReadWriteWeb.com because it illuminates something that we in North America are often encouraged to forget. There’s a whole big world out there. (And an eBook market to match.) The article highlights a discussion with …
Jun 23
DRM is EVIL… Remember when you could buy a book, read it and then loan it to a friend? I started buying books that way. A friend loaned me a novel, the first in a series, and I went on to buy the rest of that series, and more titles by that author. Imagine buying a book on …
Jun 22
Take a look at this video. Plastic Logic’s eReader is due out on the market in 2010 to give Kindle DX a run for the money. I wish it looked a little less like Kindle, to make the comparison more exciting, but what are you going to do. We talked about this eReader earlier in the …
Jun 21
All right, I’ve put this off long enough. I suppose I was waiting for all the legal blather to pass (wishful thinking on my part). You can read about the court wrangle over Google Books at PCWorld here. Google Books offers tons of public domain material for download, as well as sales and samples from a growing …
Jun 20
Read a Fiction Matters story here about the eBook’s continued success. The numbers suggest a widespread and rapid adoption (despite some faltering moments) regardless of the ridiculously high prices for eBook Reading devices (Kindle & Sony almost $400) and the eBooks themselves ($9.99 and up). Can you imagine what will happen when the $99 eBook Reader hits …
