I, my wife, and most people who have read the Promises to Keep quartet of ebooks are big fans of indie author Shayne Parkinson. For those of you unfamiliar with the quartet, I reviewed the books 2 years ago in… Read More

A new online service R.J. Julia Booksellers — “Just the Right Book” — promises to match readers with their ideal books and keep them coming back for more. By Rachel Aydt R.J. Julia's Roxanne Coady The “bookstore business” is a… Read More

NEWLY FREE AND DISCOUNTED KINDLE BOOKS DISCOVERED BY FORUM MEMBERS Friday, 9/16: Through the day 4 newly-free books so far Sentence of Marriage (Promises to Keep), by Shayne Parkinson, 38 customer reviews, 4.3 stars, $0.00 This is the first book… Read More

Courtesy of Apple I guess I should start off with a confession: I just can’t help but smile a little as I write this special edition of the Weekly Roundup. After all, Steve Jobs’ authorized biography, iSteve: The Book of… Read More

Backlist eBooks, a coalition of previously print-published authors, has orchestrated a sale this week at Smashwords that starts today and runs through May 22nd. Below you’ll find a complete list of participating titles and coupon codes provided by the authors.… Read More

Discussion among commenters regarding the prior two installments of this series, In the Era of eBooks, What Is a Book Worth? (I) and In the Era of eBooks, What Is a Book Worth? (II),continue to focus on interchangeability of authors,… Read More

The debate over fixed book pricing remains a complicated and volatile one in Europe. By Amanda DeMarco On March 18 the Swiss parliament approved a fixed price system for books in German-speaking Switzerland, both for online and in-store sales as… Read More

SENDtoREADER - a new, free tool for the Kindle. I received a tweet that asked if I would say a few words about a new web-tool for the Kindle, similar to the popular Send to Kindle, a Chrome browser extension,… Read More

Today, I picked up Diane Duane’s novel Omnitopia Dawn… from my public library, after placing a hold via the web. It’s a hardcover print book, which is much less useful to me than an e-book. I could read an e-book Read More

The New York Times's Claire Cain Miller reports on Google's announcement of their own periodical subscription offerings via its Google One Pass system.   Timed to contrast it against Apple's set of rules detailed in a much discussed press release… Read More

By Guy LeCharles Gonzalez, Chief Executive Optimist, Digital Book World… On January 25, 2010, digitalbookworld.com relaunched from a marketing site for the inaugural 2010 Digital Book World Conference to a year-round content site dedicated to serving the needs of the Read More

I wanted to write some thoughts on the Nookcolor yesterday but was detoured by an interesting Amazon UK Kindle message thread and an Amazon UK website listing of 61 countries in which UK residents can use their Kindle  (UK: K3)… Read More

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer today because the first major metro newspaper to stop publishing in print but keep the news brand alive on the web. Seattlepi.com’s Executive Editor Michelle Nicolosi promises bold experiments, “to break a lot of rules that newspaper… Read More

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer today because the first major metro newspaper to stop publishing in print but keep the news brand alive on the web. Seattlepi.com’s Executive Editor Michelle Nicolosi promises bold experiments, “to break a lot of rules that newspaper… Read More