The Guardian says that fans of Colleen Hoover have pressured the romance author’s publisher into releasing paperback versions of her work. Lifehacker talks about the value of eBook subscription services and offers a breakdown of what the first competitors offer. TechRepublic posted about an eBook reader Lucidor that is intended for collaborative work. The Library …
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Jan 29
Scribd now available on Kindle Fire
The Verge reports that the Scribd subscription service has launched an App for Kindle Fire today.
Jan 22
Enhancements due for Overdrive
GoodeReader reports that OverDrive will demonstrate its “enhanced” eBook lending platform at the American Library Association’s Midwinter meeting this week.
Jan 16
Marketing and social media platforms for Indie authors and publishers
Digital Book World gives a list of marketing and social media platforms for Indie authors and publishers.
Dec 26
Focus on eBook reading data
GoodeReader reports on eBook subscription service start-ups like Oyster and Scribd that plan to focus on eBook reading data.
Dec 19
eBook subscription service competition heating up
Forbes offers an update on the players in the burgeoning eBook subscription service market now occupied by Scribd, Oyster and Entitle. With the eBook sales market maturing, it sounds like good timing for consumer options like this, but with all the services overlapping their launches, things are bound to be competitive.
Dec 17
Follet adds Macmillan to school eBook distribution list
Digital Book World reports that Follet has now added Macmillan to its list of publishers (Simon & Schuster, Random House and Hachette so far…) with whom it has inked deals to distribute their eBooks in schools.
Dec 15
Oscar-hopeful screenplays available as free eBook downloads.
GoodeReader reports that the screenplays for this year’s movies in contention for Academy Awards are available as free PDFs for online or tablet viewing, or for the eBook savvy as files for conversion to a compatible reflowable text format. For all those Oscar fans in the crowd.
Nov 25
HarperCollins will sell C.S. Lewis eBooks direct.
The Business Journal’s Tech Flash has an interesting post that says HarperCollins will start to sell digital editions of C.S. Lewis titles directly through narnia.com and cslewis.com using Digital River Inc.’s eCommerce tech. It’s an interesting development, and a logical one for the connected marketplace.
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