Penguin is offering, as part of its “eSpecial” program, three anthology stories that were originally available only as part of a collection.  Father Mine by JR Ward is a novella available for $3.99 only in her Black Dagger Brotherhood Insider’s Guide (Retail $15.00). Father Mine features a story about Zsadist and Bella which I’ve [...]

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 fiction eSpecials, short pieces [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 be [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]