Thanks Jorgen for this link to a story at Publishers Weekly about Barnes and Noble’s test marketing print books bundled with eBooks. The deal should start sometime in the next 60 to 90 days and involves selling eBook editions of titles at serious discounts when customers buy regularly priced print books. They’re experimenting with the …
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Jan 11
Experiment in DRM-Free eBooks
Thanks Jorgen for this link to a story at boingboing.net about author David Pogue’s experiment where he released a DRM-free eBook to see if the unlocked eBook would have an impact on overall sales of that title. The results were what we’ve been saying all along. A locked eBook only punishes paying customers, yah?
Jan 10
More from (and about) the Consumer Electronics Show
Here’s another installment from the media storm surrounding the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and the resulting explosion in the eBook Revolution. First CNN has an overview and a bit of history of the CES here. MacWorld.com reports here on COOL-ER’s introduction of new eBook models, one of which touts the small Sony-pocket Edition …
Jan 09
More from eBook Heaven (Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas…)
Another information Bomb from the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. The eBook Revolution is shifting to high gear! Technology for the Soul reports here that iriver took a moment out of the CES to announce that its Story (eBook Reader) was coming to America “later this month†and that a WiFi enabled version was coming sometime in …
Dec 13
12 DAYS to Enter Contest!
I’ve been reminded AGAIN to remind you about a contest to win a free Sony eBook Reader Touch Edition at BentSteeple.com. It’s to celebrate the release of BENT STEEPLE a new Horror novel by author G. Wells Taylor. There are other prizes too. I’ve looked around the site(s) and he seems to be into everything. The …
Dec 12
Kindle Accessibility Addressed…
Another contribution from Jorgen with a link to a story at the Examiner.com about an Amazon Kindle for the blind or seeing-impaired. A first version of this special Kindle was criticized because of its reliance on too many button controls with on screen text to manage feature commands. It also ran into lawsuits revolving around its text-to-speech …
Nov 29
eBook Readers are Here to Stay!
Thanks to Jorgen for a link to this enjoyable article at the Thaindian News that pretty much sets it all out there for us to see. It’s pretty obvious that eBooks are here to stay. What’s interesting is they were considered to be the way of the future but with the speed of their widespread …
Nov 28
eBook Price War Approaching
A story over at Unthinkable has analysts predicting an eBook price war between Borders and Barnes & Noble as the two latecomers vie for position in the eBook Revolution. This will also come down to a battle of the gear, because Barnes & Noble has its own Nook while Borders stocks Sony’s eReader. Get the …
Nov 16
Doom and Gloom from Ireaderreview
Jorgen dropped off another link, this time to a somewhat gloomy article at Ireaderreview about the ‘value perception’ of eBooks dropping to ZERO. Give the article a read. I think the author jumps to several conclusions that could be vigorously debated. For instance, there is no real discussion in the piece about how we determine the ‘actual value’ …
Oct 10
The Scourge of Piracy
Jorgen stopped by to direct us to this article at techdirt.com debunking some of the myths that surround digital content piracy and file sharing. It’s an excellent piece that suggests eBook piracy might not be the bad thing publishers want us to believe it is. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Stop …
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