The people at Fictionwise eBooks, pioneers in eBook sales and distribution, are celebrating their 9th Anniversary with a SALE. They’re offering 30-50% off all titles. A quick look puts their eBooks between $2.99 and $30 dollars each, so that discount can work out to large savings if you’re building a digital library. You know me, I …
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May 24
What’s Apple Doing?
The Apple App store has denied the Eucalyptus eBook reader entry for rather sketchy reasons. Read about Apple’s recent mystifying move here at Techwhack. I have to wonder if this illogical move is a sign that Apple is starting to prepare the ground for the release of its much anticipated media(pad) tablet? It reminds me a …
May 21
Apps and eBook Jackets
A couple of developments in the eBook Revolution today…almost want to say Evolution…yah. Amazon has released a more mobile-friendly Kindle 1.1 App for iPhone and iPod Touch. Among other things it allows portrait or landscape modes for reader preference and a lock so it doesn’t accidentally switch orientation. Check out the full announcement here at cnetnews. …
May 19
CHEAPER eBOOKS equals LARGER AUTHOR ROYALTIES?
These guys get it, yah?  They know they’re not selling paper and cardboard, they’re selling content. Read the story here about how eBook store Scribd  is adapting to the new eBook market instead of trying to control it. The author, Kemble Scott, mentioned in the article is making a go of it selling his eBook for …
May 18
Doomsday for the Outmoded Argument
An interesting article here about the ongoing Kindle Readers’ $9.99 Amazon Boycott. Amazon misled Kindle first-adopters by saying that New eBook Releases would be priced at $9.99. Well, that didn’t last long. Readers revolted. Caution: THE FOLLOWING IS SNAKE OIL MEANT TO FRIGHTEN CONSUMERS INTO SUBMISSION. Quote from the article: “How Much Should an E-Book …
May 17
eBook Piracy Inevitable? Hardly…
Alexander Wolfe at Informationweek.com here describes the exercise in futility that has become the debate over the scourge of eBook piracy and content control. I don’t think he is trying to solve the problem, rather it’s an attempt to advance the discussion by invoking some description of eBook piracy’s impact on the content-creator or author. …
May 15
And as predicted….cheaper eBook Readers on the way!
It has to be arrogance that makes the big guys dismiss all other competition. Honestly, Amazon and Sony are glaring at each other across the table–both nervously waiting for Apple’s next move… And along comes Interead‘s Cool-er eBook Reader. Read the story at PCWorld here, about the $249 keep-it-simple eBook Reader that might put the industry leaders …
May 12
Strategy or Reaction?
A story here at InformationWeek outlines Amazon’s Monday launch of a Kindle eBook Store tricked out for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch users. They declare a ‘mulitplatform strategy’ in the article, but I’m unconvinced. Having watched Amazon’s awkward attempts to monopolize the market with delays releasing a Mobipocket Reader and Kindle Reader for iPhone, the creation …
May 11
Slow news day at eBook Rumors…
Honestly, other than a few stories about people debating copyright (yawn) and digital rights management (when will they learn?) it seems to be a slow news day for the eBook Revolution. After a week of exciting KINDLE DX mania…what can we expect? Announcements are definitely in the pipe. And rumors suggest something is coming from …
May 09
More on Paying for Web Content
It seems every time Amazon does something with Kindle, we get a bunch of new eReaders jumping onto the market, and the debate over copyright and paying for content flares up again. I can understand why they’re talking about it all over the news and here at CNN.  KINDLE DX is ‘perfect’ for displaying large format content …
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