Jun 19 2011
Dear Jane is a column wherein you write in questions about ebooks and I try to find an answer. If you have a question, send it to jane at dearauthor dot com. Dear Jane: I’m a fairly new e-book convert. I first bought my Kindle to use when I travel, but now I find myself(…)
Jun 12 2011
The New Nook Simple Touch Reader: Awesome for Reading and Buying Books. Everything else? Meh. When I told my husband why I needed—needed!—the new Barnes and Noble Nook Simple Touch Reader to replace my 2.5 year old Sony PRS 700, I tried to impress with tech specs. I mentioned the 6.5” super crisp Pearl E-Ink(…)
Jun 5 2011
I know a number of people received the iPad for gifts this year, either for Christmas or some other event. I’ve got a list of my favorite apps that I think no iPad should be without. Most of them are free. 1-3. Reading Apps (all Free) Nook App – download this ONLY if you are(…)
May 22 2011
I know that there have been people hopeful that DRM would soon fade away, but it won’t and here is why. 1. Growth. Most trade publishers have a vested interest in making ebook adoption difficult. Their profit structure is built on a paper book business and they have not yet determined the optimal business system(…)
May 15 2011
Amazon introduced its Cloud Locker and Amazon Cloud Player and Google has introduced Google Music (beta). Both companies are offering cloud based storage for music. No big deal, right? Wrong. Music labels are concerned because Amazon and Google haven’t worked out a business relationship wherein the music labels and the artists get a piece of(…)
May 8 2011
I use my Kindle daily and am pretty proficient with working with the device. Angie James emailed me and asked if I knew about the free.kindle.com feature and I said yes. She told me that she wasn’t aware of it and that I should put together a blog post about it. I pretty much do(…)
Apr 24 2011
As of April 8, 2011, the three year lawsuit between Ellora’s Cave and Chris Brashear has come to an end. On April 7, 2008, Chrissy Brashear filed suit against Ellora’s Cave alleging that she was entitled to a distribution of profits from 2005 until the date at which defendants bought out her 5% shares. EC’s(…)
Apr 24 2011
In 2009, we visited the idea of subscriptions in the form of a couple of two different models. The first was whether readers would be interested in an ebook reader rent to own sort of deal, kind of like cell phone subscriptions. 186 respondents said yes whereas 109 said no. 100 were uninterested. [poll id="150"](…)
Apr 17 2011
At these tech conferences, you hear a lot about the enhanced ebook. There is the belief amongst some publishers that if they throw in some video and audio, we readers would be willing to pay more for a digital book. This might be true in some circumstances and I’m not discounting a market for enhanced(…)
Apr 3 2011
On March 22nd Amazon launched their much speculated about Android Appstore. This presents an interesting addition to the Android ecosphere, an app store that has the potential to outshine the official Android Market provided by Google. All in all Amazon's Appstore isn't really too different from the Android Market. At this point it's basically the(…)
Mar 31 2011
“You’re being audited.” That’s hardly his most winning opening line, but Rafe Ellersley isn’t here to make friends. He’d promised himself-’and his boss-’that this audit would be different. This time, he would be the consummate Australian Tax Office investigator. Cool, detached, professional. He’d bring Lexie Thatcher, tax-dodging artisan, to justice with ruthless efficiency. No more(…)
Mar 29 2011
Dear Ms. Lane, Harlequin Historicals will still occasionally branch out beyond Regencies and I’ve come to look for your books to be among those branchees. I’d started reading in this series two years ago with “The Borrowed Bride,” but will be honest and say that I’d lost touch with it since then. Now, a few(…)
Mar 20 2011
Pricing of books is a very important topic, both to readers and authors. With the rise of self publishing, finding the right price for a book falls heavily on the shoulders of the author. There is much discussion about the right price of books. Stephanie Laurens blog seems heavily devoted to exploring the topic of(…)
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