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 …
Category: eBooks
eBook formats listed and discussed.
Oct 11
Some Holiday Weekend Reading…
Happy Thanksgiving to Canadian visitors. Enjoy the links. Jorgen dropped by with a link to an excellent visualization of the eBook format download wars. Looks like the heat is on PDF. Check it out here at RadarOreilly. The Sun News has a link to a post that offers solutions to all your eBook conversion needs. …
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.
Oct 04
Brave New Digital World for Libraries
Thanks Jorgen for a link to a MetroWest Daily News story about the impact of the eBook Revolution on the future of libraries. Borrowing rates are increasing with traditional paper and audio books, but with new numbers showing eBook usage spiking at 949%, it is clear that the new media is going to have a …
Oct 01
An Article that Kills the Lies that want to Kill the eBook Revolution.
Many, many thanks to Jorgen for a link to an excellent piece by Marion Maneker at BNET.com called “Are E-Books Killing the Literary Novel? Nonsense.” Read this article because it cuts right through publishing industry lies against digital publishing, and shows us the essential truth of the eBook Revolution. If you’re a writer, small publisher …
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