Current news items related to eBooks and the eBook publishing industry.
The National Post in Canada is introducing an eBook publishing program to offer readers the opportunity to purchase the news site’s various collections: Through National Post ebooks, readers around the world will be able to purchase collections of our best work from Apple’s iTunes, Amazon, Kobo Books, the Google ebookstore and the Sony ReaderStore. Our [...]
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I’d posted about this here and wondered how it could be considered price fixing. The following makes it clearer that it most certainly sounds like price fixing: An agreement between six major publishers has seen prices rocket for many books worldwide – some of which are more expensive than the paper version. The agreement includes [...]
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From ITProPortal: The US Department of Justice has announced that it has started an anti-trust probe against Apple and its partners for allegedly fixing the prices of ebooks. [...] The regulators have reason to believe that Apple conspired with book publishers on its iBooks ebook platform. If you read on in the article, it says [...]
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Ray Bradbury, who’s always rejected ebooks, is finally giving in and allowing the digital release of his classic Fahrenheit 451 : At age 91, Ray Bradbury is making peace with the future he helped predict. The science fiction/fantasy author and long-time enemy of the e-book has finally allowed his dystopian classic ‘Fahrenheit 451′ to be [...]
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It’s almost that time again: National Novel Writing Month! That’s 50,000 words in just 30 days, starting November 1st and finishing on the 30th. Are you up for the challenge? The point is to simply sit and write. Don’t worry about editing, just keep busy writing. If you can set a goal of about 1700 [...]
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Here’s a great list of sites where you can find free eBooks: Best Websites To Find And Download eBooks. That’s an excellent list, but I just wanted to add a couple more: Project Gutenberg, where you can download eBooks for free, as their copyright has expired (in the U.S.). LibriVox is a site where you [...]
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And please, if you do nothing else today, learn the difference between your and you’re, as well as its and it’s!
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The politically-correct censors among us are hard at work, this time trying to sanitize history and erase the racial and ethnic slurs in selected classic literature: Mark Twain wrote that “the difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter.” A new edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and [...]
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Read: Google opens e-book store in challenge to Amazon Books bought from Google’s store can be read on any machine with a Web browser. There are also free applications that can be installed on Apple Inc.’s iPad and iPhone, as well as other devices powered by Google’s own mobile operating system, Android. But Google’s eBooks [...]
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I will not link to this “writer” (and I use the term loosely) or to any of his books on Amazon. Read the story for yourself. Amazon offers the same canned response to all that they don’t “promote hatred or criminal acts,” but they can’t remove the book because that would be censorship. Setting aside [...]
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Have you bought an eReader yet? You might want to consider the Kobo. It should be in Walmart stores in the U.S. for the upcoming holiday season. Read: Kobo Wireless eReader landing at Walmart Walmart stores in the United States are picking up another eReader for the upcoming holiday season: starting next week, some 2,500 [...]
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It’s a Book written by Lane Smith It’s a Book is a hardcover children’s book designed to explain a what an old-fashioned pulp and paper book is. In a digital age, I suppose this is natural. Children today don’t know a world without digital technology. Tweeting, texting, playing video games — all these are second [...]
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Read: Amazon offers $139 Wi-Fi Kindle, challenges iPad Amazon.com launched a cheaper, wireless-only Kindle on Wednesday, betting that the $139 price will turn its latest electronic reader into a mass-appeal device as Apple Inc’s iPad gains ground. I guess if owning a device that is good for only one thing appeals to you then go [...]
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At Amazon, eBook sales have crossed a major milestone: They are outselling hardcover books. The future is here, and the rate of acceptance is accelerating. But some people still cling to their dead-tree versions. See author David Carnoy’s “tongue-in-cheek” look at this: Top 10 Reasons Hardbacks are “Better” Than eBooks 1. Spilling a drink on [...]
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What do you think about this? Goldman Sachs seems to believe the iPad is all that: Apple’s iPad Is Going To Destroy The Netbook Market, Says Goldman (Sorry, Microsoft). Actually they present some pretty valid reasons for their certainty on the iPad’s ability to dominate the market. It’s all based on these five Cs: Consumption, [...]
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