The Coming Battle of E-Readers
Okay, so now we know where the e-book is going. Ever upward. To have predicted that twelve years ago, when I had all my novels reversed from major pu...
Okay, so now we know where the e-book is going. Ever upward. To have predicted that twelve years ago, when I had all my novels reversed from major pu...
Warren Adler | Posted 04.26.2012
The new ploy by book publishers is to characterize Amazon as a monopoly poised to take over and dictate terms and run rampant over those who create ebook content.
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Posted 02.08.2012
By Holly Robinson for IndieReader.com Jocelyn Kelley loves the heft of a book in her hands and the physical act of turning pages. “Flipping the p...
Harry Freedman | Posted 02.14.2012
Handwriting is in decline. But writing is on the increase. Paradoxical isn't it? Think about it. How often do you pick up a pen these days? I bet it'...
The Bookseller | Posted 09.24.2011
Kobo has removed the direct e-bookselling links from its Apple apps, following new rules brought in by Apple earlier this year....
nytimes.com | Posted 08.09.2011
This week, though, e-book readers just took their first slimy steps out of the primordial soup. Both Barnes & Noble and Kobo, its far less advertis...
The Digital Reader | Posted 07.27.2011
You’re looking at data collected by Google. You can probably guess that the lines on this chart represent how often the search terms are entered int...
ft.com | 0 0 | Posted 07.24.2011
BookExpo America is upon us, and all the talk at the New York publishing fair is of booming e-book sales and where that leaves hardbacks and paperback...
The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 07.23.2011
Kobo is rolling out a new touchscreen ereader. The Kobo eReader Touch Edition will sell for $129.99, starting in early June. Like other reading-ded...
Beverley Golden | Posted 07.11.2011
Imagine a world with no bookstores. Personally, I just won't do it, because for me, this thought kept returning: bookstores are magical places.
Digital Book World | Andy Woodworth | Posted 05.25.2011
About a week ago, Sarah and I posted the Ebook Reader’s Bill of Rights. We’ve watched it bounce all over the blogosphere much to our mutual deligh...
Mark Coker | Posted 05.25.2011
At the heart of every revolution is a loss of faith in the prevailing regime. And a revolution is brewing that will topple Big Publishing as we know it.
The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
There is a case to be made for the fact that 2010 will be remembered as the year eBooks solidified themselves as a veritable cultural mainstay. It wil...
ZDNet | Posted 05.25.2011
Turns out, Patterson was more interested in adding better narrative to games (a worthy cause, IMHO), but seemed skeptical about the idea of gamifying ...
techwatch.co.uk | Posted 05.25.2011
Kobo has launched Reading Life on the iPad, a new app which the company has labelled the "first social e-reading experience." The idea is users will ...
switched.com | By Jon Chase | Posted 05.25.2011
With Amazon's recent announcement that digital e-books outsold hardcover books for the first time, and paperbacks destined to a similar fate in the ne...
Reuters | Posted 05.26.2011
TORONTO, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Indigo Books & Music Inc (IDG.TO), Canada's largest bookstore chain, posted a greater-than-expected quarterly loss on Monda...
Melanie Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm not opposed to e-Readers. I can see the appeal of them, especially for commuters. But for the first time I realized, as a reader, a very big drawback to these devices, and that is -- nobody can tell what you're reading.
Paul Levine | Posted 05.25.2011
Funny, I don't recall anyone blissfully sniffing their books until the threat from e-publishing appeared. Now, readers can't resist comparing their moldy old tomes to the finest Bordeaux.
Reuters | Phil Wahba | Posted 05.25.2011
Borders Group Inc's electronic bookstore went live on Wednesday and the head of its bookselling business predicted that it would quickly catch up with...
Posted 05.25.2011
For a long time, Amazon was the only real option out there for buying eBooks. But a lot has changed in the eBook business recently. Barnes & Noble bec...
ZDNet | Matthew Miller | Posted 05.25.2011
I conducted a search of the Android Market for the highest rated and most popular ebook applications and discovered five applications that looked wort...
Posted 05.25.2011
For a long time, Amazon was the only real option out there for buying eBooks. But a lot has changed in the eBook business recently. Barnes & Noble bec...
David Colbert | Posted 05.25.2011
Just posted to the web: video of a must-see presentation by Michael Tamblyn, VP Content, Sales and Merchandising at the ebook bookseller Kobo.
Publishers Weekly | Posted 05.25.2011
The Kobo/Android e-reader is available for free download through the Android marketplace. E-books purchased through Kobo can be read and synchronized ...
Warren Adler | Posted 05.04.2012