Our friend Jorgen dropped by with a link to a post at eBookMagazine.co.uk that offers some common sense incentives that could make the eBook buying experience more familiar and profitable for the consumer, publisher and eBook Store alike. The idea of bundling and cross-selling titles is nothing new, but it seems some eBook retailers are …
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A growing list of web sites that sell eBooks. Pros and Cons...
Oct 16
Sony PRS-650 Touch Edition e-Reader Reviewed
Good e-Reader offers a review and photos of the new Sony PRS 650 Touch edition. And it looks like good news for the device that features a 6 inch E Ink touch screen with 16 levels of gray scale. At $229 it’s at least within the neighborhood of some other high-end but cheaper eReaders on …
Oct 13
Kindle ‘Singles’ Coming to an Amazon Near You!
I think this is a silly re-branding of an already existing literary form, but there is method in Amazon’s madness. Check out this Pocket-lint post declaring that the short story and novella have now been renamed “Kindle Singles.” On paper, it’s a good idea since short and medium-range stories have traditionally been tough for writers …
Oct 12
Borrow a Nook from the Library?
Tricities.com reports on an interesting development in the eBook Revolution where the Sullivan County Public Library System has allowed patrons to check out Nook eReaders to interface with thousands of available titles online. This is a great idea! Now the companies that make the devices have to wake up and realize they need to place …
Oct 10
eBooks Cost More than Hard Covers?
More screwy pricing news at Amazon from Mercury News that reports a couple of digital bestsellers hitting the Information Highway priced higher than their paperback equivalents. Ken Follett’s Fall of Giants from Dutton was priced $19.99 for the eBook and $19.39 for the hard cover. And publisher Little Brown & Co. marked their Don’t Blink …
Oct 09
PCMag.com Reviews Sharper Image Literati Reader
Here’s a link to a review of the Sharper Image Literati Reader at PCMag.com. It’s competitively priced at $159, but it falls short of the reviewer’s expectations.
Oct 08
eBook Piracy on the Rise
CNet News has the results of a recent study on eBook Piracy. Have a look at the post, there’s a graph and everything. I thought it would be nice addition to yesterday’s eBook Rumors post. Notice in the survey they blame iPad’s release in part for the increase in piracy, and fail to mention that …
Oct 07
Publishers Driving eBook Prices out of Affordable Range
Thanks Jorgen for a link to this Salon story by Dan Gillmor outlining the lose-lose scenario that publishers have foisted onto the public by taking pricing away from Amazon and other book sellers, and switching to the more expensive agency model that is now showing eBooks priced higher than their physical paper equivalents. It’s an …
Oct 06
Digital Publishing Levels the Playing Field for Kobo
The National Post has an excellent feature on eBook retailer and distributor Kobo that shows the Toronto start-up and offspring of Indigo Books & Music Inc. is more than capable of going blow for blow with Internet giants Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble and Sony. It all comes down to keeping it simple. After launching …
Oct 05
The eBook Revolution Continues.
Our intrepid friend Jorgen has dropped off yet another link, this time to an excellent Daily Finance post by Sarah Weinman that lists the results of eBook related surveys. You’ll be surprised by some of the numbers and encouraged that all the evidence points to an eBook Revolution shifting into high gear.
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