Digital Book World says that eBook Best-seller prices have risen to their highest level since summer. It is no wonder with the holiday season approaching.
Category: Tablet
Oct 08
Tablo aims to streamline eBook publishing
TechCrunch has a story on the Tablo BookMaker start-up that claims to take the complexity out of eBook publishing.
Oct 07
Hachette to distribute English titles worldwide.
Digital Book World reports that Hachette Book Group is getting prepped to distribute all of its English eBook titles worldwide.
Oct 04
Digital Publishing Update
The Wall Street Journal posted Barnes and Noble’s announcement of the most exciting book and eBook buying season ever. (Have to hand it to B&N. Still, performing well in a highly competitive marketplace.) GoodeReader reports on a law in France that is bound to handicap Amazon’s paper book business with new restrictions on free shipping. …
Oct 03
Pricing, availability and publisher greed create divide.
Wired offers a slightly shrill (or is it just the headline?) piece by Art Brodsky on the problems of inflated prices, availability and publisher greed in the eBook Revolution with warnings that the current trends could fuel a “reads” and “reads not” scenario of disparity for the future.
Oct 02
Are author web pages worth the effort?
A Digital Book World post that discusses whether author web sites are worth the effort to maintain has generated some interesting “pro and con” discussion in the thread that follows it.
Oct 01
Scribd to offer $8.99 per month eBook subscription service.
According to Gigaom, long-time online eBook and document sharing site Scribd has been quietly preparing to become the $8.99 per month eBook subscription service that launched today.
Sep 30
Women leading in Digital Publishing.
Digital Book World talks about the role of women in the burgeoning digital publishing industry.
Sep 27
Digital Publishing News
CNET says that according to a patent filing Apple is developing a way for authors to sign eBooks. Digital Book World presents five challenges facing publishers in the eBook Revolution. IBN Live reports that the new Amazon Kindle Fire HDX improves on the tablet’s eBook readability. PCMag.com reviews the new Amazon Kindle Paperwhite eBook reader.
Sep 26
Publishers and rights holders behind DRM and restrictions on eBook lending
ITProPortal has a story where Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos blames publishers and rights holders for making eBook lending difficult.
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