Well this is a smart move by Amazon.com. What was starting to look like a coalition of Davids formed to compete directly with the eBook retail Goliath has suddenly turned into a love-in. (I’m just being a smartass here. I really couldn’t be happier for the eBook Revolution…) Read the press release here. We reported …
Category: eBook Stores
A growing list of web sites that sell eBooks. Pros and Cons...
Nov 20
Smashwords Acquires BookHabit
Read the Smashwords Press Release here. Smashwords is the fast-growing eBook publishing service with over 4,700 eBook titles from 2,100 independent authors and publishers from all points of the compass. The eBook savvy net player has opened new distribution channels for Indie talent recently announcing new relationships with major online entities Barnes and Noble, Sony eBook …
Nov 14
The Intel eBook Reader
Jorgen dropped by with a link to this article at Crunchgear about an Intel eBook Reader for the visually impaired. I agree, at $1,500 it’s jumping into the eBook Revolution with a high price, but the device offers a unique approach to eBooks and reading for the over 50 million people in the U.S. who …
Nov 10
Harlequin Introduces Carina Press to Digital Publishing
Publishing giant Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. has launched an ePublishing-only division called Carina Press. Unlike the parent company that offers traditional hardcover, paperback and eBooks, Carina’s opening up to new and established authors as an option for publication that will distribute and sell eBooks only. We’re going to see more and more of this, yah? As the …
Nov 07
The Nook’s Selling Points
Jorgen dropped in with a link to PCWorld and an early review of Barnes and Noble’s answer to Kindle, the Nook . Read the article here. The B&N bricks and mortar locations are definitely going to give this eBook Reader an edge, yah?
Nov 06
Publishers + Writers + Internet = Retailer Troubles.
It’s easy to focus on the eBook Readers and eReading Devices. Their development is obviously going to have the biggest impact on how the eBook Revolution evolves, but this article at E-Reads illuminates another level to the struggle that promises to be more cutthroat and financially destructive to the traditional publishing industry. Simply put: Until recently, …
Nov 01
Will eBooks hurt ‘bricks and mortar’ bookstores?
TopNews.net thinks they will… Read the article, here. It can’t be any more doom and gloom than what these bookstores have been going through already, as traditional publishing collapses around them, destroyed by short-term corporate thinking: as publishing giants abandoned selection for bestsellers. It’s just the evolution part of the eBook Revolution. Bricks and mortar …
Oct 31
HORROR AUTHOR TERRIFIES PUBLISHERS THIS HALLOWEEN WITH FAIR eBOOK PRICES!
This one’s fun for the end of October… I just put up the whole press release because I like his thinking, yah? There’s a contest for a FREE SONY eBOOK READER too! Here’s the link. TORONTO, ONTARIO – (Oct. 31/09) Horror author G. Wells Taylor hopes to shake things up in the exploding eBook marketplace …
Oct 28
Barnes and Noble forges a powerful Alliance
Thanks to Jorgen who dropped by with a link to Wired focusing on Barnes and Noble having an advantage over its competitors because of its 1,300 or more bricks and mortar locations and ability to shelve paper books beside electronic. An excellent bridging tool if you think about it. And now that they’ve inked a deal to sell …
Oct 25
MORE TWISTED LOGIC from THE PUBLISHERS
The direct quote below from a story at the DallasNews.com about investigations into Book Price Wars could not bare paraphrasing. Honestly, does this mean what I think it means? Do they think we’re stupid? Here’s the quote:  ‘The letter also noted that while some may say lower prices will encourage more reading, “the reality is quite the opposite,†the …
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