Category: iPad

On Apple losing its appeal and digital windowing

Disruptive Competition Project’s Matt Schruers offers some excellent thoughts on Apple losing its appeal and digital content “windowing.”

eBook subscriptions hit snags

Digital Book World says eBook Subscription service Scribd will remove romance novels from its catalog in order to streamline growth. With Amazon’s July 1st retooling of its Kindle Unlimited eBook subscription service to pay participating authors less, could it be we’re seeing the failure of the “all you can eat” eBook platform? Here’s an idea: how about they sell eBooks …

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Apple still guilty of eBook price fixing

The Hollywood Reporter says Apple is still guilty of eBook price fixing after its failure to overturn the U.S. Justice Department’s guilty verdict against it.

Smashwords to allow pre-orders of unfinished titles

According to a GalleyCat post Indie publisher and distributor Smashwords will now allow authors to offer pre-orders of their titles for up to a year in advance of a sales date.

Top ten Apple eBooks to June 8, 2015

abcNEWS offers the top ten Apple iBooks to week ending June 8, 2015.

Social sharing eBook platform Glose for Android

Talking New Media talks about the Glose social sharing eBook platform now moving to Android.

Top 10 iBooks to June 1/15

abc NEWS offers the top ten Apple iBooks to week ending June 1, 2015.

Read eBooks on your Apple Watch

9TO5Mac reports on the Apple Watch’s eReading App. Too big a bite for such a small display?

Dracula of the Apes eBooks Available in Paperback for World Dracula Day

Dracula of the Apes picks up where Bram Stoker’s Dracula left off and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan of the Apes began. In this horror/fiction hybrid, genre-jumping indie author G. Wells Taylor puts a terrifying twist on a pair of timeless classics. In Taylor’s direct sequel to Dracula, we find the count’s Gypsy servant Horvat has …

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Barnes and Noble eBook and tablet trade-in

GoodeReader reports on Barnes and Noble’s eReader and tablet (like Kindle and iPad) trade-in program.