Apr 08
You know the eBook Revolution is going mainstream when ABC News admits there’s something to it.
Here is a fascinating article that should put traditional publishers on guard. Digital Publishing has changed the world for Indie authors, and gives a new weight to the term ‘self-published.’
Apr 07
Mediabistro’s eBookNewser has pointed out that Barnes and Noble is handling the overstock of the Nook Wifi eBook Reader (refurbished) by selling the device on ebay for $79.00 – roughly half of the regular price.
Check it out. Might be the perfect opportunity to get into the eBook Revolution.
Apr 06
Okay, all eBook Revolution news links aside, this is the first really exciting RUMOR we’ve had here in a long time!
VideoGamingPros ramps up the discussion around the rumored Android-Kindle Tablet, by suggesting its development could be a joint-venture between Amazon and Google.
All this from Amazon’s mysterious Lab 126 posting a notice “looking to hire” Android developers. (Lab 126 developed the Kindle…)
Apr 05
The Hollywood Reporter says Harry Potter scribe J.K. Rowling is getting ready to sign onto the eBook Revolution. She has giving lots of reasons in the past for dragging her feet, and now eBooks have given her about 100,000,000 reasons to get aboard.
Now that post suggests Rowling’s involvement will change the eBook Revolution as we know it, even likening her move to the Beatles songbook moving to iTunes. Not sure that’s a level playing field, or that her involvement will be as transformative as the article suggests, but it will certainly get the kids reading eBooks.
If nothing else, it will be another reason for traditional publishers to keep their eBook prices too high. (Unless she’s going to Indie publish them and take 70% of the profits…) You can bet her publisher is keeping the lid on that bit of information.
Apr 04
Jorgen dropped in with a link to an Information Today Inc. story about the hurdles public libraries face at the dawn of the eBook Revolution. It looks like an uphill battle with restrictions on lending, device compatibility problems, proprietary systems, interface and privacy issues to name a few.
Apr 02
The Vancouver Sun offers us a post on the BookNet Canada Tech Forum 2011 in Toronto where the publishing industry is embracing digital after years of fending it off with both hands.
I get a kick out of that. A decade of resistance, and suddenly it’s an embrace.
Apr 01
ReviewsofElectronics posted on Amazon’s announcement that Kindle books will soon have page numbers.
Smashwords Founder, Mark Coker, shows us where eBook buyers live in a story at HuffingtonPost.
BlogCritics reports on an Expert Panel discussion of eBooks, Digital Books and Apps.
GalleyCat talks about a new eBook App that will let you incorporate Twitter conversations into your reading experience.
Mar 31
Many thanks to our friend Jorgen for dropping off a link to The Digital Reader where a feature by Eric Landes takes a look at eBook prices and continues the search for digital publishing’s elusive pricing ‘sweet spot.’
An excellent read that many traditional publishers could learn from. (The eBook Revolution demands adaptation. Old business models must be abandoned.)
Mar 30
Publishers Weekly posts on publisher Other Press raising its author royalty on eBook sales from the industry 25% to a full 50% because they’re “an author-driven house.”
In other words, this publisher is scrambling to remain relevant in a marketplace that is rapidly removing middlemen from the exchange between author and reader. With Amazon.com offering authors a 70% royalty for direct eBook sales, well the writing is on the wall for publishers who want a cut…
Mar 29
We’ve talked before about this year being HUGE for eBook reading tablets like iPad, ColorNOOK, PlayBook etc. as an army of competing devices begin landing in a heated eBook marketplace.
Kevin Tofel at Bloomberg Businessweek has an interesting take on the approaching full-color, multifunction mayhem.
