Publishing NewsAmazon / book-covers / digital publishing / editing / Kobo / Self-publishing / Sony12 Comments
My Buying Community Want to Help Authors Beat the Kindle Store Best Seller List – My Buying Community, with a purported 10,000 members, seems to be another way to game the system on Amazon. The idea behind the service is that an author can get members to purchase his or ... more >
Publishing NewsEbooks / ereader / fraud / FTC / Kobo / Sony6 Comments
The Future of Reader Store in the US & Canada – Just a reminder that for US and Canadian customers, the Sony Reader Store closes permanently today, March 20, at 6 pm EST. If you have a Reader Store account, it will automatically transferred to Kobo, unless you choose to ... more >
Publishing Newscopyright / focus groups / literacy / online harassment / Sony20 Comments
Sony to axe 5,000 jobs and sell Vaio unit – One more story on Sony, this one on the company’s plans to stop manufacturing its VAIO PC and to cut its “global workforce” by 5,000 jobs over the next year. With anticipated losses of more than $1 billion for the ... more >
Publishing NewsAdobe / Australia / Canada / DRM / epub / Kobo / Rakuten / Sony / Sony Reader Store / UK / US26 Comments
Sony abandons North American eBook stores – You have have heard by now (perhaps by email, if you are a Sony Reader Store customer), that Sony is closing down its US and Canadian Reader Stores. However, in other parts of the world, Sony is still in operation, with no immediate ... more >
Publishing Newseink / Paypal / privacy / Sony / subscriptions15 Comments
Acxiom gives you a peek at the data it collects about you – So remember the stories about how Target can send a different mailer to you than it does to your neighbor based upon all the little footprints you leave in their store and on the internet? One of ... more >
UncategorizedAgency pricing / Britney-Spears / celebrity / ebook software / Sony8 Comments
Sony brings Reader software and bookstore to iOS platform | ZDNet – Sony launches its Reader software for iThings. It might be one of the best OS reading apps available for ePub. You can read Adobe DRM’ed ePubs (and PDFs) along with non encrypted ePubs and PDFs. You can create ... more >