Transmedia? This has been in the works for years now, with eBook trailers, images and audio appearing online to promote titles as far back as 2000. But, this BBC video suggests that the diverse promotional media options are coming of age at the same time that eBooks are.
Category: Kobo eReader
Jan 27
Digital Book World ends. Indie Author success stories continue!
PublishersWeekly offers this wrap-up of the Digital Book World conference held this week in New York. And PublishersWeekly gives us this story from Digital Book World that makes no secret of the fact that the best time to be a writer is NOW. (We’ve been saying that for a while!) The Verge posted on Toshiba’s …
Jan 26
What motivates an eBook Pirate?
GoodeReader speculates on the types of people who take part in eBook Piracy, and offers some solutions to the underground movement of digital editions. I still think the price of eBooks is the biggest motivation for eBook Piracy and illegal file sharing. It’s too easy to justify downloading pirated content when the easily copied, stored …
Jan 25
The eBook Revolution Continues
GoodeReader is on hand for the opening of the major publishing conference Digital Book World 2012 in New York. Business Standard warns students to prepare for the eBook Revolution after Apple’s recent leap into the eText business. The Columbia Tribune Daily has more on the battle for eReader supremacy, and the dangerous adoption of proprietary formats. …
Jan 23
eReader and Tablet ownership almost doubles!
According to CNN the eBook Revolution continues its conquest of the mainstream marketplace with the gift giving season almost doubling the number of eReader and Tablet owners. With ownership by adults jumping from 10% in December 2011 to 19% in January 2012, Â you can bet we’ll see half the adult population in possession of an …
Jan 15
Kobo Vox eReader/Tablet Reviewed
The Kobo Vox full color tablet is reviewed at TheRightClick.
Jan 12
eBook Revolution developments, news and updates.
FierceMobileContent has a post on Amazon’s tricky browser-based bypass of Apple’s restrictive in-App buying policies. Bookseller.com reports on the rise in book sales over the holiday buying season despite the explosive growth in eBook purchases. Engadget offers some video on the Kyobo eReader with Mirasol screen that combines the best in E Ink and full …
Jan 10
eBooks sales surge after holidays.
USAToday offers this sidebar to the gift giving season reporting a surge in eBook sales after the holidays. Millions of eBook Readers and tablets were given away this year, and the weeks following are heady moments for new adopters as they head out onto the web to make their first eBook purchases.
Jan 06
Post Christmas early New Year eBook Revolution update.
GoodeReader says Kobo experienced record growth during the last six weeks of 2011. PdfDevices compares the readability of Christmas market leaders Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle Fire. GoodeReader gives us a list of the 10 most-borrowed library eBooks for 2011. CanadianBusiness posted on the poor market performance suffered by Barnes and Noble as it ponders selling off its …
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