Publishing NewsAmazon / paid reviews / Sony6 Comments
Disaster Relief, CPR Certification, Donate Blood – Hurricane Sandy has devastated communities from Haiti (that had not yet recovered from the earthquake) to Canada, but much of its devastation was on the eastern seaboard. The RedCross is asking for monetary donations and has indicated that its blood bank is low. ... more >
Publishing Newsdigital lending / Fifty Shades / Sony21 Comments
I’m still trying to perfect the presentation of the news. To make it easier to read, I’ve included my commentary after the link and blockquoted the portion of the article that I am quoting. Let me know if that is easier to read. Also, at the request of a couple ... more >
Publishing Newsself-published / Smashwords / Sony7 Comments
8 million leaked passwords connected to LinkedIn, dating website (updated) | Ars Technica – “An unknown hacker has posted more than 8 million cryptographic hashes to the Internet that appear to belong to users of LinkedIn and a separate, popular dating website. … The massive dumps over the past three days ... more >
Publishing NewsAmazon / Barnes & Noble / Firefighter / Hachette/Grand Central / Random-House / Sony36 Comments
Barnes & Noble reports that the majority of its ebook sales are agency priced books (which feeds nicely into my Sunday article about how the biggest winner of agency pricing was BN). BN announced its quarterly results two days ago. Total sales are up 2% to $1.4billion, driven by ... more >
Publishing NewsBorders / Google / Sony17 Comments
Google has partnered with iRiver to introduce a new ebook reader to the market. This will be sold at Target and online. PC World has a really good review of the device. The pro of the device is that it has the crispest screen of any eink device on the ... more >
EbooksAndroid / Ebooks / Sony4 Comments
Sony has at long last followed Amazon, B&N, Borders and Kobo and released a reading app for the Android platform. Was it worth the wait? Upon opening the app you are presented with the >>˜Home’ screen. At the top of the screen you’ll see your most recently opened book. ... more >