937 readersA very subjective selection of the stories I found most interesting this week. Author Terrill Lee Lankford nixes book deal over ebook royalty rate Pew breaks down gadget demographic… but may have missed an important group, by Steven Lyle Jordan It’s like making sausage, by Mary Anna Evans Review of the typography of The Daily
2273 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;
1192 readersFree E-books on Malay Archipelago in Sejarah Melayu Library New site for children’s trade book authors Canada could get DMCA-style DRM anti-circumvention law, by Chris Meadows Competition for reader attention heading up, says Mike Shatzkin, by Chris Meadows Granta gets a Kindle edition A guide to the Kindle collections feature, by Andrys Basten Magazines need
1357 readersEbook marketing still needs a lot of work Google ebookstore round-up By Gary Price TeleRead traffic doubles on Christmas day – a lot of ereaders as presents? Could computer games be the journalism of the future? by Chris Meadows R. Scott Raynovich on the top five online newspaper killers – and one from me Ebooks
902 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
2407 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
1192 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
1267 readersA Red Lemonade Sampler by Richard Nash Will E-Readers Eat the Tablet Computer? by Michael Mace Why DRM is a distraction by Chris Walters Kobo on top of the Canadian Giller Prize; the immediacy of ebooks Amazon announces 70% revenue share for Kindle mags and newspapers; publishing tool available On PDF Scissors for use with
758 readers2010 Summary: libraries are still screwed, by Eric Hellman Deer in the headlights, by Brian O’Leary All the details on Amazon’s book lending program – a “how to”, by Andrys Basten Year One: the born digital publisher Do authors make good publishers? asks e-reads How to add books to the iPad, iPhone, etc. Why I
1775 readersGizmodo has an article on how to remove DRM from your Kindle ebooks Two articles on lending ebooks, by Sue Polanka Just How Big is the Kindle Revolution? Our Estimates, by Stephen Windwalker Chronicles of lost ebook sales, by Dave Slusher Why ProQuest brought ebrary, by Eric Hellman Paul Carr seeks a better way to