Category: eBook Stores

A growing list of web sites that sell eBooks. Pros and Cons...

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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Is digital content a reliable source of information?

Forbes raises some questions about the reliability of digital content in a post that suggests an author’s or publisher’s ability to instantly access and edit eBooks and digital content could undermine its validity as a source of accurate information. The non-fiction and eTexts that schools and universities use will mainly benefit by this ability to …

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The upside to eBook Piracy

The Huffington Post’s Harry Freedman offers us his views on eBook Piracy, and like eBook Rumors sees the upside.

eBook Piracy will continue to grow until fair prices are adopted.

ITProPortal reports on the surge in eBook Piracy leading up to the first mainstream eBook holiday buying season. We’ve said for years it’s a simple cause and effect relationship. Until the price of (legal) eBooks comes down to what the market will bear, then pirate or rogue sites will offer lower priced versions, and the …

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Happy New Year!

eBook Rumors wishes you all the best in 2012. Happy eReading!

4 Million Kindles sold in December.

Publisher’s Weekly posted Amazon’s claim that 4-million Kindles were sold in December. This staggering million-per-week total surpassed expectations, and heralds the mainstream adoption of the eBook.

eBook buying options.

GoodeReader offers a list of eBook buying options for anyone who joined the eBook Revolution over the holidays–meaning, received an eBook Reader. (Of note, they have listed distributors that offer titles in the universal formats ePUB and PDF.)

Quality will drive eBook Revolution in 2012

A BusinessWire survey at MarketWatch reports that quality will drive the eBook Revolution in 2012. This after the big publishers jammed their work into the online eBook stores with little in the way of editing and formatting. That oversight stood out when they then turned around and asked the public to pay hard cover prices. …

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The Variant Effect Sequel Begins.

(Free stuff for the holidays from our friend G. Wells!) DAWN OF A NEW DAY IN THE VARIANT EFFECT: GREENMOURNING Captain Joe Borland and the squad return to action in The Variant Effect: GREENMOURNING by G. Wells Taylor. Download the first 10-chapter installment of the Variant Effect sequel FREE at GreenMourning.com and SkinEaters.com. “Borland grumbled …

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Happy Holidays from eBook Rumors

You’re probably all out there getting the hang of your new Kindles, Nooks, Kobos, iPads, Sony eReaders and tablets. (The list goes on…) Well, it seems the first rite of passage is the eager exploration of the ever-expanding library of FREE eBooks. Here are some web sites where you’ll find a wide selection of FREE …

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