Dec 20
Forbes has a post on the new Vellum eBook production tool.
Digital Book World offers ten predictions for the eBook Revolution in 2014.
GoodeReader has a piece on the value of eBook bundles to writers and readers.
Android Police says the Amazon Kindle App update offers font selection, collections and more.
Dec 19
Forbes offers an update on the players in the burgeoning eBook subscription service market now occupied by Scribd, Oyster and Entitle. With the eBook sales market maturing, it sounds like good timing for consumer options like this, but with all the services overlapping their launches, things are bound to be competitive.
Dec 18
Macworld reports that Apple will now offer eBook “gifting” in the iBookstore.
Dec 17
Digital Book World reports that Follet has now added Macmillan to its list of publishers (Simon & Schuster, Random House and Hachette so far…) with whom it has inked deals to distribute their eBooks in schools.
Dec 16
Mashable has a story on the new Entitle eBook subscription service that plans to be the Netflix for eBooks with a twist.
Dec 15
GoodeReader reports that the screenplays for this year’s movies in contention for Academy Awards are available as free PDFs for online or tablet viewing, or for the eBook savvy as files for conversion to a compatible reflowable text format.
For all those Oscar fans in the crowd.
Dec 13
Digital Book World offers its top ten eBook best-sellers list for the week ending December 8, 2013.
Engadget says Google has made it easier to upload eBook libraries to Play Books.
Talking New Media says Simon & Schuster has formed a partnership with Follet to bring 450+ PreK-12 eBook titles to the Titlewave® platform.
The Guardian says that Amazon Kindle covers the lack of “paper” books in Ghana’s reading revolution.
Dec 12
Digital Book World continues to track the eBook best-seller price war that is brewing as the holiday season approaches with the average title reaching an all-time low.
Dec 10
Gigaom says a New York Federal judge has thrown out an almost year-old case brought by independent booksellers against Amazon, where they say the Kindle-maker conspired with publishers to create a monopoly whereby the Kindle eReader’s proprietary digital rights management (DRM) software forced consumers to purchase from Amazon exclusively.
Dec 09
GoodeReader has a post on Simon & Schuster UK’s launch of The Hot Bed, a genre-centered blog and social media site for fans of Romance and New Adult fiction.
