November 16, 2014

Kindle Unlimited and the only Amazon numbers we know for sure.

JaneEbooksAmazon / Kindle Unlimited / subscriptions39 Comments

Amazon is notoriously opaque. It does not reveal the number of devices sold or books sold or movies downloaded. It’s hard to measure the success of any one program and the algorithms it uses to construct its bestseller lists are a closely guarded secret. There are those who guess but ... more >

JaneEbooksEbooks / Harlequin / subscriptions181 Comments

Harlequin has signed a deal to provide exclusive subscription access to 15,000 backlist titles to Scribd subscribers. Not sure what Scribd is? It’s a subscription access service. I wrote about all three of the main ones here and concluded (even without the Harlequin content) that Scribd was the best of ... more >

KaetrinEbooksEbooks / Kobo42 Comments

Discussion about the recent changes to B&N have revealed a number of Kobo customers are having trouble with some Kobo books they’ve purchased.  Kobo’s Customer Care department (a misnomer if ever I heard one) will tell buyers who complain that the problem occurs because the book is “ePub3”.  This is ... more >

September 14, 2014

The Curious Case of Ellora’s Cave

JaneEbooksElloras-Cave223 Comments

Long before there was the Kindle, long before self publishing, long before the emergence of Fifty Shades, a digital first publisher by the name of Ellora’s Cave began to deliver sexy reads that would transform the face of romance publishing. Ellora’s Cave was established in 2000 as an outlet for ... more >

August 24, 2014

Uses for Evernote

JaneEbooksEfficiency / Habit / Tasks20 Comments

Last week JSON did a list of favorite apps and categorized Evernote as an app that sits there. “I know I should be using this app. But I don’t.” I used to feel that way about Evernote. I remember reading a post about Michael Hyatt’s uses and figured I should ... more >

JaneEbookssubscriptions33 Comments

With the launch of Kindle Unlimited, we thought it was time to do a comparison and give our opinion as to which one is worth your $9 or $10 per month. We began talking about subscriptions back in 2009 and I followed that up in 2011. It’s amusing to look ... more >