Feb 17
PCWorld gives us this comprehensive list and reviews of the best eBook Readers on the market. (Worth checking out.)
BusinesstoCommunity.com gives instruction on reading EPUB books on Android devices.
CBCNews says that Canadians are reading more books and eBooks. (10% of all titles sold in Canada are digital.)
DigitalJournal reports on eBook publisher BookBaby adding three more eBook stores to its distribution network.
Feb 16
The Lantern wonders whether the eBook Revolution will win out over hard copy textbooks in schools and learning institutions, or if there will be a place for both.
The answer to this one rests in the quarterly profits of publishers and the balance sheets of educational institutions. It is cheaper to produce the eTexts and the profits are higher.
Publishers like profits, and schools are already making students carry the weight as far as tuition and supplies…why not add an eBook Reader or tablet to the pile?
Feb 15
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
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. Â Frightened publishers want to increase the friction on library users.
Feb 13
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
The Los Angeles Times tells us that publisher Penguin has withdrawn its titles from OverDrive, a company that supplies eBooks for loan at libraries, because the distributor’s relationship with Amazon represented a breach of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 10
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
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
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.
