Digital Book World talks about eBook design and innovation. The Christian Science Monitor reports on Harlequin’s dive into the digital marketplace. The Japan Times says Japanese seniors are more attracted to eBooks than the young are. Kobo continues to entice new readers with yet another discount. GoodeReader says that this time it’s their Arc Tablet …
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Aug 15
The Borgias television series to end as an eBook.
TV Guide has a story about a novel marriage of technologies. After the cancellation of the popular Showtime television series The Borgias fans thought they’d never know how the story was going to turn out. But thanks to series writer and creator, Neil Jordan, they’ll get closure in the final screenplay he has re-written and released as an …
Aug 14
Organize your eBooks with Calibre
Macworld reports on the free eBook management software Calibre and shows how it can help organize your personal library of eBook titles.
Aug 13
Three new Amazon Kindle Fire tablets on the way.
Digital Trends tells us to expect three new Amazon Kindle Fire Tablets in the near future. (A new processor is on the horizon…)
Aug 12
eBook demand and publisher over-pricing is draining public library coffers.
The Sun Sentinel says that the demand for eBooks is draining public library budgets. (That and the greedy pricing policies of publishers.)
Aug 09
Digital Publishing Update
The Digital Reader says that the eBook market is finding its pace while continuing to grow by 5%. One wonders how the overall market will react when the U.S. Department of Justice finishes with Apple and its price-fixing conspirators and fair competition is given some room to run. Honestly… The eBook Revolution seems to be unstoppable. It …
Aug 08
Publishers object to Apple contract limits.
The Globe and Mail reports that publishers are objecting to limits that the U.S. Department of Justice is hoping to set on future Apple contracts following the guilty verdict for the iPad maker in the recent price-fixing conspiracy trial against the company.
Aug 07
Bezos’ Washington Post purchase suggests the shape of things to come.
The Financial Post writes that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ purchase of the Washington Post suggests he is about to do to newspaper publishers what his Kindle eBooks have done to the traditional book publishing industry.
Aug 06
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. to get the Kindle Worlds treatment.
TheMarySue.com reports that the works of author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. are among the first to get the fan fiction treatment in the new Kindle Worlds platform. So it goes…
Aug 05
Apple calls U.S. Department of Justice’s suggestions “Draconian.”
DailyTech says that Apple has rejected the U.S. Department of Justice’s proposals to remedy and safeguard against the illegal behavior that the iPad maker has been tried and found guilty of doing. The unrepentant Apple calls the measures “Draconian.”
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