Jan 12
FierceMobileContent has a post on Amazon’s tricky browser-based bypass of Apple’s restrictive in-App buying policies.
Bookseller.com reports on the rise in book sales over the holiday buying season despite the explosive growth in eBook purchases.
Engadget offers some video on the Kyobo eReader with Mirasol screen that combines the best in E Ink and full color display technology.
Lifehacker talks about the best eReading App for iPhone.
Jan 11
In the Nice Try department of the eBook Revolution, here’s a story at eBookNewser about a company called Lexink that plans to sell ‘used’ eBooks.
They claim their Unloder software allows the consumer to sell an eBook by permanently removing the file from your eReader library, so that this ‘used’ file can be sold again.
Okay? Let’s just stop it here. I can’t imagine any publisher, Indie author or other who would buy into this.
Jan 10
USAToday offers this sidebar to the gift giving season reporting a surge in eBook sales after the holidays.
Millions of eBook Readers and tablets were given away this year, and the weeks following are heady moments for new adopters as they head out onto the web to make their first eBook purchases.
Jan 09
While we wait for eBook Revolution news from the Consumer Electronics Show 2012 Jan. 10-13 in Las Vegas we’ll ‘occupy’ the eBook news for a moment with a link from Kaitlyn Cole at OnlineUniversities.com entitled “The 10 Best Protest Books of All Time.”
Jan 08
Our friend Jorgen dropped by with a link to a Wall Street Journal article about the future of publishing where writers never have to finish writing a book because they can edit and update digital files forever.
No final edit. No final draft.
Jan 06
GoodeReader says Kobo experienced record growth during the last six weeks of 2011.
PdfDevices compares the readability of Christmas market leaders Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle Fire.
GoodeReader gives us a list of the 10 most-borrowed library eBooks for 2011.
CanadianBusiness posted on the poor market performance suffered by Barnes and Noble as it ponders selling off its Nook assets.
Jan 05
Forbes raises some questions about the reliability of digital content in a post that suggests an author’s or publisher’s ability to instantly access and edit eBooks and digital content could undermine its validity as a source of accurate information.
The non-fiction and eTexts that schools and universities use will mainly benefit by this ability to correct erroneous material. In terms of fiction and literature, the ability to ‘tweak’ a novel until it is relatively free of errors is one thing, to change it to fit market expectations ceases to be the same kind of creative writing.
Jan 04
The Huffington Post’s Harry Freedman offers us his views on eBook Piracy, and like eBook Rumors sees the upside.
Jan 03
ITProPortal reports on the surge in eBook Piracy leading up to the first mainstream eBook holiday buying season. We’ve said for years it’s a simple cause and effect relationship. Until the price of (legal) eBooks comes down to what the market will bear, then pirate or rogue sites will offer lower priced versions, and the public will have an incentive to shop ‘off the map.’
It’s important to remember the ongoing investigation of Apple and the big six publishers for eBook price fixing in relation to the Agency Model that they have jammed down the throats of consumers .
Jan 02
GoodeReader has an update on Amazon’s Kindle Owners’ Lending Library program launched some months ago, and in full swing in time for the holiday buying season.
We’ll see how much the participating authors profit from what could be called a spoiler of the first mainstream Christmas for the eBook Revolution.
Indie authors who spoke to eBook Rumors said that their sales flattened out at Amazon’s Kindle Store when they expected to see them skyrocket. It is suspected that the influx of FREELY loaned eBooks threw cold water on a market that was set to explode.
