1578 readersA defense of pagination New BookReader on the Internet Archive View from Down Under: Kindle for Web vs. Google Ebookstore, by Jason Davis Amazon removes incest-related erotica titles from store, Kindle archive, by Chris Meadows A geographical restriction warning for those of you giving an iPad/iPod – it may go unactivated! by Joanna What ereader
941 readersBarnes & Noble opens first Spanish language digital bookstore in the US To disabled, iPads offer versatility, affordability as assistive devices, by Chris Meadows Using microfilm to store digital data, by Gary Price Review roundup – Barnes & Noble Nook Color From Japan: Bringing the pirates on board, by Eugene Woodbury Who is your digital
2382 readersA purely subjective selection of my favorite posts: Interview with founder of Argentinian ebook site Liibook Librarians apply HarperCollins’ 26-read lending limit to HarperCollins’ own paper books An afternoon in the life of a teacher’s iPad, by Joanna Well done, HarperCollins: librarians must change old thinking, by Martin Taylor More raids in price-fixing probe. Publishers
2024 readersSurvey shows misunderstanding of iPad’s place in the ereader market by Andrys Basten Why Smashwords moved to “agency pricing” – explained by Mark Coker Joe Konrath predicts e-publishing boom in 2011 by Chris Meadows How do you cite an e-book’s ‘page number’? by Chris Meadows Project Gutenberg responds to Greg and Astrid Bear’s takedown request;
1344 readersDigital Book World coverage: Publishers and agents differ on ‘fair’ e-book royalty rates, by Chris Meadows Its no pocalypse at Digital Book World, by Eric Hellman DBW panelists suggest children’s book apps need curating, by Chris Meadows Digital Book World: BISG research report on ISBN Digital Book World: consumer attitude and buying behavior studies Digital
1139 readersOnly a few short months after Mark Twain’s autobiography began to be published in full for the first time (and became an unexpected best-seller), one of the most famous controversies spawned by his most well-known book is also being revisited. Twain scholar Alan Gribben is producing an expurgated version of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
888 readersBooked! Libraries, eBooks and Their Collections!, by Tony Bandy Eminem royalty ruling has broader implications for digital media sales, by Chris Meadows Publishing industry efforts for Japan relief Browser extension allows scribbling in margins of e-books, by Chris Meadows Book reviews & reviewers: deciding which reviews to trust, by Rich Adin Where U.S. ebook buyers
1273 readersWhy some ebooks cost more than the hardcover Using Ibis Reader and Apple’s VoiceOver Windows/iPhone/iPad e-book app review: Nook Reader, by Chris Meadows How I went from traditional to ebook publishing (and started selling again), by Jason Davis Mike Shatzkin on ebooks and the history of mass-market publishing Ongoing publisher inattention to e-book quality is
1178 readersWhy Penguin and Diane Duane just lost a sale, by Chris Meadows Flip book publisher joins the digital age The annual ebook spring cleaning: what I learned this year, by Joanna Georgia (US) history ebook project, by Gary Price Publishers in danger of losing hearts and minds of readers, by Chris Meadows Widescreen TVs, black
1706 readersYou can definitely write articles about the Kindle, but you shouldn’t use the definite article with (the) Kindle. That’s the thrust of a Wall Street Journal article that discusses how careful representatives of many modern companies are to avoid using “a” or “the” with their products. Kindle, Nook, iPhone, BlackBerry, Wii, the list goes on.
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