FierceMobileContent has a post on Amazon’s tricky browser-based bypass of Apple’s restrictive in-App buying policies. Bookseller.com reports on the rise in book sales over the holiday buying season despite the explosive growth in eBook purchases. Engadget offers some video on the Kyobo eReader with Mirasol screen that combines the best in E Ink and full …
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eBook formats listed and discussed.
Jan 11
Sell used eBooks? Nobody’s going to buy it!
In the Nice Try department of the eBook Revolution, here’s a story at eBookNewser about a company called Lexink that plans to sell ‘used’ eBooks. They claim their Unloder software allows the consumer to sell an eBook by permanently removing the file from your eReader library, so that this ‘used’ file can be sold again. …
Jan 09
Protest books for the eBook Revolution
While we wait for eBook Revolution news from the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 Jan. 10-13 in Las Vegas we’ll ‘occupy’ the eBook news for a moment with a link from Kaitlyn Cole at OnlineUniversities.com entitled “The 10 Best Protest Books of All Time.”
Jan 08
No final edit. Continuous eBook launch.
Our friend Jorgen dropped by with a link to a Wall Street Journal article about the future of publishing where writers never have to finish writing a book because they can edit and update digital files forever. No final edit. No final draft.
Jan 06
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 …
Jan 05
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 …
Jan 04
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.
Jan 03
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 …
Jan 02
Amazon cools off first mainstream eBook Christmas
GoodeReader has an update on Amazon’s Kindle Owners’ Lending Library program launched some months ago, and in full swing in time for the holiday buying season. We’ll see how much the participating authors profit from what could be called a spoiler of the first mainstream Christmas for the eBook Revolution. Indie authors who spoke to …
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