Feb 15

Some eBook Revolution headlines for February 15/12

MocoNews reports on an interactive eBook publishing platform coming FREE from Inkling.

DigitalJournal says eBook sales in Britain are beginning to offset the decline in print title sales.

The Bookseller posted on U.K. bookseller Foyles getting into the eBook Revolution by launching its own FREE eReading apps with access to 200,000 titles.

And GoodeReader has a story about initiatives taken by Overdrive to encourage eBook lending. This comes in response to recent friction between the library eBook supplier and publishers.

Feb 14

Library eBook lending too easy.

Okay, this is getting weird. PCWorld has a story about Penguin (and other publishers) contemplating going ahead with the library lending of eBooks as long as libraries make it difficult to do.  Frightened publishers want to increase the friction on library users.

Feb 13

Kobo stops eBook lending before it starts.

GoodeReader has a report on eBook retailer Kobo halting plans to allow its customers to lend one another eBooks for up to two weeks at a time. They were in the process of developing a system similar to the one used by Amazon and Barnes and Noble when they put on the brakes.

Feb 12

Penguin drops out of digital library lending…

The Los Angeles Times tells us that publisher Penguin has withdrawn its titles from OverDrive, a company that supplies eBooks for loan at libraries, because the distributor’s relationship with Amazon represented a breach of contract.

Take the link to read the whole tangled web.

Feb 11

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Feb 10

eBook Revolution News and Reviews

From the ‘apples and oranges’ department PlanetPDF asks the question “Is EPUB format better than PDF?”

PhysOrg.com reviews the new Kindle Touch. (Can’t touch my Kobo Touch, I’ll bet…)

AppCraver reports that Barnes and Noble Nook App for iOS devices offers more eBook options.

PDFDevices reviews the Sony PRS-T1 Reader.

And our friend Jorgen dropped by with a link to an E-Commerce story on how eBooks are changing the publishing business.

Feb 09

Indie author Kerry Wilkinson dominates Amazon Kindle Store with 250,000 sold in three months.

More good news for Indie authors over at the Guardian and a story about self-published author Kerry Wilkinson claiming the top spot in Amazon Kindle book sales with 250,000 sold in the last three months of 2011.

Again, we wonder if the traditional publishers will wake up to the fact that publishing evolution is well underway in the eBook Revolution, where readers are choosing the bestselling authors for them. The smart publishers have to be trolling the Indie ranks.

The tough part will be getting an Indie author to sign if success is achievable on his own dime.

Feb 08

eBook Revolution Update.

PDF Devices reviews the Pandigital Novel eReader.

FortStewartPatch.com reports that Apple’s eTextbooks might just be too good to be true. Propriety format = bad for eBook Revolution.

MobyLives wonders whether bundling eBooks with hard copy is a good idea.

…and check out this PRWeb release about newcomer Booktango’s “Widest eBook Distribution and Best Royalties” offer to authors.

Feb 07

Amazon going Bricks and Mortar?

This is a unique spin in a world where everything seems to be going digital, Time has a story on the digital giant Amazon.com rumored to be going bricks and mortar.

In light of the recent clashes with book retailers that have banned Amazon imprinted books from their shelves, a move by Amazon into their territory now seems likely.

Feb 06

Competition grows nasty for the eBook Revolution

The competition continues to heat up in the eBook Revolution. Canadian book retailer Chapters Indigo has joined Books-A-Million and Barnes and Noble in boycotting eBooks and books published under Amazon’s own exclusive imprint(s).

GoodeReader says this comes in response to Amazon’s scandalous market manipulation over Christmas that encouraged shoppers to scan books they found in bricks and mortar stores to receive the item at a cheaper price purchased via Amazon online.