More from last week’s Digital Book World. GoodeReader posted on Amazon sharing some statistics on the Kindle Lending Library and chatting up its new Fire tablet-friendly Kindle Format 8.
Jan 27
Digital Book World ends. Indie Author success stories continue!
PublishersWeekly offers this wrap-up of the Digital Book World conference held this week in New York.
And PublishersWeekly gives us this story from Digital Book World that makes no secret of the fact that the best time to be a writer is NOW. (We’ve been saying that for a while!)
The Verge posted on Toshiba’s announcement that its Android-based eReader, the BookPlace DB50 will hit the Japanese marketplace in February.
A post at Ghacks.net highlights the GonVisor software, ideally suited to viewing comic books, ebooks, or image series on your computer or laptop (and I’m assuming tablet).
Jan 26
What motivates an eBook Pirate?
GoodeReader speculates on the types of people who take part in eBook Piracy, and offers some solutions to the underground movement of digital editions.
I still think the price of eBooks is the biggest motivation for eBook Piracy and illegal file sharing. It’s too easy to justify downloading pirated content when the easily copied, stored and manufactured item is priced similar to its real-world equivalent. (In this case hard covers and paperbacks.)
Jan 25
The eBook Revolution Continues
GoodeReader is on hand for the opening of the major publishing conference Digital Book World 2012 in New York.
Business Standard warns students to prepare for the eBook Revolution after Apple’s recent leap into the eText business.
The Columbia Tribune Daily has more on the battle for eReader supremacy, and the dangerous adoption of proprietary formats.
PCAuthority updates us on the latest book emulators available for iPad. It’s meant to mimic the actual book-reading experience.
Jan 24
Apple sabotage in eBook Revolution
ZDNet’s Ed Bott tells us how Apple is attempting to sabotage the eBook Revolution by introducing a new proprietary format that locks out the open standard ePub they had previously claimed to fully support.
Jan 23
eReader and Tablet ownership almost doubles!
According to CNN the eBook Revolution continues its conquest of the mainstream marketplace with the gift giving season almost doubling the number of eReader and Tablet owners.
With ownership by adults jumping from 10% in December 2011 to 19% in January 2012, Â you can bet we’ll see half the adult population in possession of an eReader or Tablet by Christmas 2012.
Jan 22
Class-action lawsuit against Apple updated.
The AppleInsider updates us on the class-action lawsuit that says Apple and publishers engaged in a ‘price-fixing conspiracy’ and teamed up to display ‘antagonism’ toward Amazon’s pricing scheme.
(Is it just me or is it hard to feel sorry for any of these guys?)
Jan 20
Friday eBook Revolution Headlines
According to Reuters the American Congress has postponed the Monday vote on flawed anti-piracy legislation (SOPA & PIPA) that provoked the Internet to strike. (Us too…) The shelved legislation could have seriously hampered the Internet’s architecture and freedoms, and started a shift of power back to the old status quo. (It would have impacted the eBook Revolution too.)
eBookMagazine has the scoop on Apple’s iBooks Author publishing tool released yesterday at an ‘Education Event’ in the Guggenheim.
The Daily Beast wonders if tablet Apps and eBooks mean extinction for Pop-Up books.
And check out this MarketWatch video that speculates on the future of Enhanced eBooks. Are they the future or a passing fancy?
Jan 19
eBook Market update.
Apple is holding an “Education Event” at the Guggenheim rumored to center around eBook publishing software for iPad and an iBookstore redesign. Time has a link here.
EContent gives us a short review of the eBook Revolution in 2011.
MarketWatch says eBook ‘discovery’ and sample downloading are booming at public libraries.
eBookNewser posted a list of the top 20 free eBook Apps of the week.
Jan 18
The Internet Goes on Strike!
eBookRumors.com was proud to join thousands of other web sites today in a global strike to protest the flawed American legislation: Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA).
It is an obvious power grab facilitated by connected politicos buckling under pressure from industries that have tried to control digital content since its inception.
Early reports suggest that those responsible for the legislation are now reconsidering if not outright abandoning it. It isn’t over, but they’ll know we’re ready when they try again.
Learn more about it here.
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