Publishing NewsAmazon / Art / artistic expression / diversity / Kindle / lending / Library / obscenity / Race / stereotypes6 Comments
With Kindle Unlimited, Amazon Makes Bid for Amazon Prime Customers – Well, it’s a few days into Kindle Unlimited, and the world still seems to be more or less intact. Slate has an interesting perspective on the service, which is that it’s a strategy for Amazon to get more money ... more >
Ebookslending / reader communities / Reader Habits26 Comments
I have a friend whose tastes in books are somewhat similar to mine. She would frequently ask me what I purchased and I found so many times that our tastes overlapped. Why not share an ebook account, I proposed. We both have multiple Kindle devices and so I signed us ... more >
Ebooks / Essaysdigital lending / lending / Libraries46 Comments
My nephew plays for an elite high school basketball club. I know it is elite because it is one of a few high school teams in the state that is sponsored by Nike. Yes, sponsored. Kids in our state from the ages of about 14 and through 18 can play ... more >
Publishing Newsdigital publishing / HarperCollins / lending / Library119 Comments
Macmillan is famously known for two things among savvy digital readers. First, it led the charge for Agency pricing inserting themselves between the reader and the retailer and dictating to the retailer what prices should be charged for books. Macmillan prices its ebooks at the same level as its print ... more >
Publishing Newsdigital lending / India / lending / Nook22 Comments
Apparently publishers really don’t like digital lending even though they want to keep charging us print prices without giving digital readers corresponding print rights for the digital books. In other words, charge the consumer the same price but don’t allow her to trade, resell, or loan the book out. Barnes ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Barnes & Noble / book business / Borders / Kobo / lending / self-published15 Comments
Samhain freebies: 1/1/2011 to 1/31/2011 Oleander House by Ally Blue 1/1/2011 to 1/14/2011 Rough Cut by Mari Carr 1/15/2011 to 1/28/2011 Big Girls Don’t Die by Crystal Jordan 12/15/2010 to 1/15/2011 Going All In by Jess Dee 12/15/2010 to 1/15/2011 Make Mine Midnight by Annmarie McKenna 12/15/2010 to 1/15/2011 The Bite of Silence ... more >