Oct 30
The Night Once More: A Wildclown Novel by G. Wells Taylor is available for pre-order at select locations starting this Halloween in advance of its December 10, 2015 launch. In The Night Once More a wanderer on the road keeps losing track of time…and place. His only clues to who he is come from the …
Oct 29
Apple continues to refuse to accept a years’ old guilty verdict laid against it by the U.S. Supreme Court for conspiring with five of the biggest U.S. publishers to fix the price of eBooks. This Reuters’ post outlines the details with Apple now asking the Supreme Court to toss the guilty verdict out. I’d almost admire …
Oct 27
Talking New Media reports on Kindle and Glose eBook reading app updates, and other digital publishing news.
Oct 20
American Libraries talks about eBook pricing and libraries. Sounds like another case of the greedy publisher cash grab.
Oct 13
The Observer reports traditional publishers are continuing to lose market share to Indie authors. (And it’s their own damn fault.) If they’d just embrace the digital book market instead of constantly trying to manipulate it (by overpricing their eBooks, etc.), who knows, they might be able to compete with the Indies.
Oct 08
TechCrunch reports on enhanced Harry Potter eBooks coming exclusively to Apple iBooks.
Sep 30
GoodeReader reports that Simon & Schuster (co-conspirator in the Apple eBook price-fixing scandal) believes that raising its eBook prices is effective. It’s effective if the publisher’s plan is to gouge consumers and slow the growth of the eBook Revolution by undermining competition in the marketplace. Effective also if they want to encourage eBook Piracy.
Sep 29
Graphics posted on Vellum 1.3 eBook creation software updated to design for Mac.
Sep 25
Fortune gives the real story on a report from the Association of American Publishers that eBook sales are slowing. It seems that is not the case. Instead, market share for “established publishers has been declining, while sales of independently published e-books have been growing.” Go Indies!
Sep 23
Talking New Media reports on the state of digital publishing. The eBook Revolution continues to mature.
