EbooksAndroid / ereader device / shortcovers29 Comments
Author Gwen Hayes emailed me that she had recently purchased a Droid phone from Verizon. A Droid phone is a smartphone that runs on the Google Android system. I asked her what she thought of the device for reading and she agreed to write a post for Dear Author. (Beware ... more >
Features / Publishing NewsAmazon / best of list / book business / Conventions / Ebooks / SFWA / shortcovers / Smashwords158 Comments
TBIResearch believes that Amazon is losing quite a bit of money on the ebook market as it tries to drive down prices of books. Publishers are trying hard to maintain a higher price, but researchers and retailers believe that consumers will not pay a high price for ebooks. The good ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Apple / Calibre / shortcovers2 Comments
All the links I should have posted this week but didn’t: Kovid has released Calibre 0.6, a major upgrade to the best software program in existence for digital book readers. This program allows you to manage, rate, sort, tag, convert your ebooks. If you don’t have it, you should. Calibre ... more >