Free eBooks Have Arrived at Nook Press – Nate Hoffelder reports that Barnes and Noble’s Nook Press has announced to publishers that they can now set the price of their ebooks to free on the B&N site. Does it matter at this point, though? Is anyone still reading on the Nook? ... more >
B&N Launches Nook Audiobook Apps for iPhone, iPad – Barnes & Noble is getting back into the digital audiobook business, with a selection of 60,000 audiobooks. According to Nate Hoffelder, you can’t sort offerings by price or play other audiobooks in the app, but clearly B&N is hoping to cash in ... more >
The desperate book industry and ‘tatvertising’ are a perfect, tragic match – I don’t even know what to say about this, beyond WHAT THE FUCK ARE THEY THINKING?!? Hachette Australia has announced an open casting call for a woman who is willing to “donate” her back for a large, permanent ... more >
Barnes & Noble’s Dirty Little Secret: Author Solutions and Nook Press – So Barnes and Noble continues to disappoint, this time via the author services it started advertising a few months ago. What they did not reveal at the time (nor presently, for that matter) is that they are outsourcing ... more >
What Internet Users Know about Technology and the Web – A very interesting Web IQ of Americans report from Pew Internet, which includes a quiz to test your own Web IQ. The results from the report sample suggest that while the majority of respondents could identify terms associated with daily ... more >
B&N Ends Desktop Downloading – In a stealth move and without notifying its existing customer base, BN has removed the ability for readers to download Nook purchases to their desktops. Readers who complained were told that they could download the book to via a Nook App or a Nook Device ... more >