I will resist the urge to make any ‘killer robot’ allusions or asides. Sometimes a governor is just a governor. The Ventura County Star reports California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announcing the adoption of the nation’s first Free Digital Textbook Initiative designed to save schoolboards (and his financially strapped state) millions of dollars per year. Read …
Category: eBooks
eBook formats listed and discussed.
Jun 09
Steampunk Tales Issue #1 NOW AVAILABLE!
Steampulp Publishing LLCÂ has released the world’s first electronic pulp fiction magazine created exclusively for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Emulating the style of the pulp adventure magazines of the 1920s and ’30s, Steampunk Tales #1 contains first-run and original fiction written by an A+ list of award-winning authors. Issue #1 contains 10 short stories …
Jun 05
More signs of the change that’s coming…
I’ve mentioned the Espresso print-while-you-wait book machines before. It looks like the traditional publishing industry has heard about them too. Read the article here at Graphic Arts Online about a traditional paperback printer cutting staff in response to “the economic downturn…and technology innovations.” It seems like a no-brainer now, but a few of us have …
Jun 03
More interesting moves in the eBook Revolution
The Financial Times reports a story here about the Taiwanese screen-maker for Amazon’s Kindle, Prime View International, cutting a check to buy E Ink, the US company that owns key tech for making the screens. The $215 million purchase is going to get North American and European publishers howling about monopolies…especially since they’re all seeing a digital …
May 31
Printing Moves Closer to the Readers
We’ve been waiting for print-on-demand kiosks to break out, and it looks like it’s finally happening. The Ingram publishing services on-demand book printing unit has started delivering digital books for printing on compact Espresso digital printing machines at retail centers and libraries. The machines are being called the “ATM” of on-demand book printing. (I knew …
May 28
Random House Group Sees the Light!
An article here at Bookseller.com announces the unbelievable. Venerable publisher Random House Group has joined the eBook Revolution by releasing mass market editions for sale at the Apples Apps store . Listen to the way RHG’s digital publisher says this, it kills me: “The iPhone and iPod are fantastic convergence devices and we’re delighted customers can …
May 27
Clearing the air at Publisher’s Weekly.
Publisher’s Weekly writer Rachel Deahl wrote an excellent article “The eBook Pricing Conundrum” in which the murky eBook pricing procedures of leading publishers are taken to task. Read the story here. Deahl sets out the twitchy mathematics publishers and resellers use to justify their high prices on eBooks, and shows what shaky ground they’re on. I get …
May 26
Tuesday, quiet on the digital front…
Even saying that, I know that something’s going to break out the second after I post this. In lieu of any breaking news, and to save you from my usual eBook Revolutionary blather, I’ll offer a link to an interesting article by Marion Maneker from The Big Money. Read it here. Maneker links publishing’s fertile …
May 19
CHEAPER eBOOKS equals LARGER AUTHOR ROYALTIES?
These guys get it, yah?  They know they’re not selling paper and cardboard, they’re selling content. Read the story here about how eBook store Scribd  is adapting to the new eBook market instead of trying to control it. The author, Kemble Scott, mentioned in the article is making a go of it selling his eBook for …
May 18
Doomsday for the Outmoded Argument
An interesting article here about the ongoing Kindle Readers’ $9.99 Amazon Boycott. Amazon misled Kindle first-adopters by saying that New eBook Releases would be priced at $9.99. Well, that didn’t last long. Readers revolted. Caution: THE FOLLOWING IS SNAKE OIL MEANT TO FRIGHTEN CONSUMERS INTO SUBMISSION. Quote from the article: “How Much Should an E-Book …
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