Thanks Jorgen for dropping off this link to a Business Week story that predicts the shape of things to come for Amazon.com. According to the article analysts from Credit Suisse Group AG see Amazon’s market share of eBook sales slide from 90 percent in 2009 to 72 percent in the coming year. While you read …
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Feb 17
Apple iPad Will Use DRM… Ahoy eBook Pirates! Come and get ’em!
Jorgen sent us a link to a story at PCWorld that reports iPad will adopt a DRM lock on the ePub format eBooks it will sell at its iBook store. That’s part of the stupid deal they inked with some large and greedy publishers (Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette) that wanted to raise …
Feb 15
Bent Steeple Sony Reader Contest Results
Sweet Prize, yah? We posted on this a couple times from press releases on the lead up to the draw, and we’ve received the results. Apparently a big turnout. The author also gives an update on his $1.99 eBook Sale. First Prize Winner Witold Bruhns received a Sony Reader Touch Edition with BENT STEEPLE by …
Feb 14
Will eBooks Replace Paperbacks?
“So will the eReader replace the paperback?” That question and many others are answered in a Net4Now.com post directed at the eReader generation. (Already, it’s a generation…) The author Jade offers an in-depth, well-researched replay of the basics and ponders the future as we pause to collect our thoughts in the post-iPad-Release eBook Revolution. A great Sunday read …
Feb 11
And then the eBook Readers said:
So, I talked yesterday about a missing voice in the eBook pricing debate. Well, Jorgen dropped off a link to an article in The New York Times by Motoko Rich and Brad Stone where that voice is heard loud and clear. Read the article “E-Book Price Increase May Stir Readers’ Passions” here. This is a …
Feb 09
More Publishers Join Macmillan’s Unsupportable eBook Pricing Model
Thanks Jorgen for dropping off this link to a story at Information Week about eBook prices ‘ratcheting’ up after Amazon’s dustup with Macmillan Publishing. Apparently, News Corp.’s HarperCollins and Hachette Book Group have decided to join hands with Macmillan and make their eBooks unpopular with everyone but eBook Pirates. Those publishers have decided that Amazon’s $9.99 eBook …
Feb 05
Greed Kills: The Big Publishers Open Door to eBook Pirates
Thanks Jorgen for a link to an article at uberreview.com called “E-books: Why Greed Will Cost E-Book Publishers In The End” that predicts the outcome of the recent move by the largest publishing houses to strong arm Amazon and Apple into raising eBook prices. This profiteering highlights the amateurism and lack of vision that has plagued the …
Feb 04
Sony Readers, Kindles, iPads and Nooks aside…
Just so we don’t lose sight of what this is really all about. Here is an excellent and detailed article posted by publicola.com’s Glenn Fleishman entitled: “How Many eBooks, Ultimately?” Lots of information about the past and future of book titles. An excellent read. Imagine having access to the history and future of books. Literally …
Feb 03
Apple Gets Controlling – My iPad Way or the Highway!
In a move reminiscent of Amazon’s most despotic market machination, Apple has ordered Lexcycle to disable its hit App Stanza’s ability to share files via the USB cable. Read the story at VentureBeat. Conspiracy theorists whisper that it’s another step in Apple’s attempt to isolate its iPad and iPhone from the competition. (The USB hookup …
Feb 01
Amazon and Macmillan Struggle over Pricing
Take this link from Jorgen to an article at the Wall Street Journal about some nasty market moves that were made by Amazon.com and Macmillan Publishing over the last few days. Macmillan balked at Amazon’s pricing and was rewarded by Amazon removing all Macmillan titles from their sales lists. Then, following a high level exchange AMAZON …
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