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.
Mar 28
I’m not sure what to think of this. The video speaks for itself. Some students at Osaka University are trying to enhance the eBook reading experience and came up with Paranga.
Mar 27
Thanks Jorgen for this FutureBook story about the much-touted enhanced or interactive eBooks and their inability to gain ground against more traditional text on ePaper competitors.
I think it’s too early to judge the long-term viability of these hybrids since the eBook Market is really only in its infancy, and the machinery is just coming into place for designers to build for.
Mar 26
Liliputing reports on an update coming next month to Barnes and Noble’s popular NookColor eBook Reader that will include Flash support and downloadable Apps.
I guess B&N has decided to see their full color eBook Reader in the same way it is viewed in the marketplace: as a very affordable tablet computer.
Mar 25
The Bookseller.com offers statistics that describe the trends driving eBook sales, and consumers are calling FREE titles an important factor in the deal.
Mar 24
Gigaom.com offers this post on Marc Parrish, VP of Retention and Loyalty Management for Barnes & Noble when he spoke at the Structure Big Data conference in New York. The article’s an excellent update as the publishing world goes digital, readers continue to adopt the technology and the eBook Revolution evolves.
Mar 23
ComputerWorld tells us that despite a scare from full-color iPad, E Paper (E Ink) continues to share the market with the technology offering us some advances this year.
A PRNewsWire release heralds the DinoDirect.com Ten New Style Tablet and rumored iPad2 challenger.
Bloomberg.com points to a U.S. judge’s decision that kills Google’s $125 million digital library settlement it brokered to build the world’s largest digital library.
The SchoolLibraryJournal reports on Talking Books Digital Downloads becoming a hit with the visually impaired.
Mar 22
Ostatic.com proposes in a post that Amazon is the only company out there with the necessary clout to take the Apple iPad on, even though its E Ink Kindle eBook Reader is a single function device.
To do it, the article proposes Amazon team with Android to create a multifunction tablet of its own, citing 24% of consumers polled favoring an Amazon tablet over Apple’s.
It sounds like a battle that is destined to happen.
Mar 21
Okay. Cnet reports on this amazing sale of the Kobo E Ink Wireless eReader for just $60!
I’ve used one of these devices and they’re very easy on the eyes, and extremely intuitive.
As the Cnet post says, the sale is confined to certain Borders stores so you’ll have to shop around, but at $60 it will be worth the effort!
This looks like a shrewd move by the troubled book giant Borders as they restructure after filing bankruptcy. Whatever it does for Borders it’s bound to make some readers very happy and jumpstart the eBook Reader pricing war that stirred the market last year.
