Mobiledia has an in-depth look at the ongoing debate about eBook pricing . We know why the publishers want to charge more, and we know why the public wants to pay less. Will there ever be common ground? (Or will it be up to eBook Pirates and file-sharers to decide?)
Category: eBook Stores
A growing list of web sites that sell eBooks. Pros and Cons...
Feb 28
Harry Potter goes digital in libraries.
For a woman who resisted digital publishing and eBooks, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is certainly going ‘all-in’ having made a deal with the OverDrive Platform via the Pottermore website to bring her Muggle-filled franchise to 18,000 public and school libraries in more than 20 languages. Slashgear has the story. Rowling seems to get the eBook Revolution and we …
Feb 27
PayPal goes to the dark side.
TechCrunch reports on PayPal’s outrageous bullying of eBook distributor and publisher Smashwords. It seems PayPal is getting into the censorship business. They have demanded that Smashwords and other eBook distributors remove all works that contain references to bestiality, rape and incest or suffer the punishment of having all PayPal services removed. (Something that Smashwords’ president, Mark …
Feb 24
eBook Rumors update for Feb. 24, 2012
The New York Times reports on Amazon’s recent decision to pull thousands of eBook titles in a bid to change profit sharing contracts with publishers. GottaBeMobile has posted on the upcoming function and price wars between the Amazon Kindle Fire and the now evenly price Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet. The MacObserver says BookReader 3.8 …
Feb 21
Full Color E Ink Kindle on the way?
BGR.com reports on Amazon’s ambitious plans for 2012 with a Full Color E Ink Kindle coming next month and a 10″ Kindle Fire tablet expected mid-year. That’s an exciting rumor about Kindle’s adoption of the full color E Ink and flies in the face of multi-tasking tablet fans who had hoped to push E Ink …
Feb 20
eBook Revolution is key to the future of publishing.
Vermont Public Radio reports on the Tools of Change digital publishing conference in New York and suggests that at least part of the traditional publishing world is finally beginning to see the eBook Revolution as a good thing.
Feb 19
Nook Color and Nook Tablet Security Kit
Here is proof that the eBook Revolution is here to stay–and it’s a low-tech guarantee that your hi-tech is going to stay safe. New PCGadgets has a Security Kit for the Barnes and Noble Nook Color or Nook Tablet.
Feb 17
February 17 – eBook Revolution Updates
PCWorld gives us this comprehensive list and reviews of the best eBook Readers on the market. (Worth checking out.) BusinesstoCommunity.com gives instruction on reading EPUB books on Android devices. CBCNews says that Canadians are reading more books and eBooks. (10% of all titles sold in Canada are digital.) DigitalJournal reports on eBook publisher BookBaby adding …
Feb 16
eBooks Headed to the Classroom.
The Lantern wonders whether the eBook Revolution will win out over hard copy textbooks in schools and learning institutions, or if there will be a place for both. The answer to this one rests in the quarterly profits of publishers and the balance sheets of educational institutions. It is cheaper to produce the eTexts and …
Feb 15
Some eBook Revolution headlines for February 15/12
MocoNews reports on an interactive eBook publishing platform coming FREE from Inkling. DigitalJournal says eBook sales in Britain are beginning to offset the decline in print title sales. The Bookseller posted on U.K. bookseller Foyles getting into the eBook Revolution by launching its own FREE eReading apps with access to 200,000 titles. And GoodeReader has …
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