Oct 7 2008
eSPECIALS FROM THREE OF PENGUIN GROUP S PARANORMAL FICTION STARS Works by J.R. Ward, Karen Chance, and Patricia Briggs Will be Available to Download New York, NY (October 7, 2008) In a continued effort to bring writers to readers in whatever format the reader prefers, Penguin Group (USA) announced today the release of three paranormal(…)
Sep 11 2008
I’m both irritated and fascinated by the recent Kindle exclusives. Lyons Press has biographies of both Cindy McCain and Michelle Obama but are making them available only to Kindle readers. This irritates me because I don’t have a Kindle but am still an avid ebook reader and see little hassle for Lyons Press making the(…)
Sep 8 2008
Penguin has announced that it will be releasing an e version of the new epilogue that is to be included in the paperback version of The Age of Turbulence by Alan Greenspan (does it address the federal bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?). For all those hardcover purchasers, you can download this new epilogue(…)
Aug 26 2008
Kassia Krozser of Booksquare examines Terry Goodkind’s ebook deal with Rosetta Books. Goodkind owned his ebook rights and instead of going e with Tor, his print publisher and one that doesn’t have an ebook presence, Goodkind went to Rosetta Books because Rosetta offered better terms. Obviously Goodkind is in a better position than many authors(…)
Aug 11 2008
Overdrive, a company that converts, distributes, and stores digital books and audio books is taking its show on the road. Overdrive has a “Digital Book Mobile” and it is going to take a nationwide tour with a semi truck tricked out with digital audiobooks, eboos, music and videos. It started at the New York Public(…)
Aug 10 2008
Harlequin Digital took a number of the bloggers out to dinner at RWA with the express purpose of asking us how to make Harlequin Digital better. Is that incredible or what? I guess a cynical way to look at it is that they are trying to curry favor with us for the price of a(…)
Aug 6 2008
In ShelfAwareness, there was the following quote from Richard Cohen writing in the Washington Post. The book is warm. The book is handy. The book is handsome to the eye. The book occupies the shelf of the owner and is a reflection of him or her or, actually, me. The book is always there, to(…)
Aug 5 2008
Jayne brought this link to my attention. The International Children’s Digital Library is an online library that collects, scans and makes digitally available, children’s books from around the world. The ICDL Foundation’s goal is to build a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world. There are stories in(…)
Aug 3 2008
The British library is scanning rare books in its collection and making them available online. The “Turning the Pages” project has a database of twenty books including early Jane Austen, the first atlas of Europe, Mozart’s musical diary and several others. Turning the Page choose to use Microsoft’s Siverlight software which means only Windows Vista(…)
Jul 21 2008
Symtio is a new “digital merchandising solution” for retailers. Essentially there are gift cards that you buy in the store which entitle you to a download of an ebook or audiobook. I’m not sure why you just don’t buy online, but it does make a decent gift idea. Here’s a Youtube video of how the(…)
Jul 20 2008
I mentioned recently how much I would love for publishers to move to e-arcs as it would be so much cheaper, allow for more copies to be distributed, and create a smaller ecological footprint. Another reviewer asked me the appeal of ebooks as she wasn’t quite there yet. I think that becoming e- acclimated takes(…)
Jul 10 2008
Bookshelf is the pro creation of Zac Bedell who developed the very first ebook reader for the iPhone. It costs $9.99 and comes with a java based shelfserver which provides a fairly easy way to load ebooks onto your iPhone. There were two things missing from the old Books.app and one was an annotation function(…)
Jul 10 2008
Simon at Bloggasm sent me an email about his interview with a few Tor authors who had participated in the Tor eBook giveaway. One author, Tobias Buckell, saw an increase in paper sales of his book that was given away and of its sequel, which was not given away. John Scalzi saw an increase of(…)
Jul 10 2008
According to an Amazon insider, of the books that are available in eform, 12% of those sales at Amazon are Kindle sales. On an industry wide scale, ebook sales make up only a single digit market share so Amazon would be exceeding the industry scale if the insider’s tip is true. It’s difficult to know(…)
Jul 9 2008
Starting with Nicola Cornick’s Unmasked, Harlequin is beginning to experiment with enhanced eBooks. According to the press release, “the ebook has been enriched with interactive buttons that hyperlink to Web sites containing photos, historical commentaries, illustrations, sound effects, maps, articles and more.” This will definitely be interesting to look at. Obviously the drawback with these(…)
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