The competition continues to heat up in the eBook Revolution. Canadian book retailer Chapters Indigo has joined Books-A-Million and Barnes and Noble in boycotting eBooks and books published under Amazon’s own exclusive imprint(s). GoodeReader says this comes in response to Amazon’s scandalous market manipulation over Christmas that encouraged shoppers to scan books they found in bricks …
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A growing list of web sites that sell eBooks. Pros and Cons...
Feb 05
A united future for the eBook Revolution?
PublishersWeekly posted on the impact of proprietary formatting and digital rights management (DRM) on the eBook Revolution, and wonders whether a unified format is the best future for digital publishing.
Feb 03
eBook Revolution News for Friday
MarketWatch has a story about “Sesame Street” releasing a series of books for Nook Tablet and NookColor. BesteReaderReview gives the lowdown on the Kindle Fire. GoodeReader says Graphicly is offering cross-platform eBook distribution to streamline publishing for Indie authors. PublishersWeekly reports that Random House will commit to eBook Lending if libraries pay a higher price.
Feb 02
Who stopped SOPA and helped save the eBook Revolution
Many thanks to our friend Jorgen who sent us this link to an in-depth TechFreedom article that tells us what the January 18th Internet Blackout was all about, why SOPA and PIPA had to be defeated, and who was responsible for the Internet Victory. It’s a long article, but worth your time. The eBook Revolution will …
Jan 31
eBook Revolution Notes
A note over at BoyGeniusReport says that Barnes and Noble is holding off the release of its new Nook eReader until the spring. The Telegraph has a report on author Jonathan Franzen’s dislike (is it hatred?) for eBooks. He doesn’t like them and he’ll tell you why. (Though I’m sure he’s enjoying the interest his …
Jan 30
Transmedia and eBooks a good fit.
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.
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 20
Friday eBook Revolution Headlines
According to Reuters the American Congress has postponed the Monday vote on flawed anti-piracy legislation (SOPA & PIPA) that provoked the Internet to strike. (Us too…) The shelved legislation could have seriously hampered the Internet’s architecture and freedoms, and started a shift of power back to the old status quo. (It would have impacted the …
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