A look at the top news stories in the world of eBooks, Books and publishing this week…so far. Barnes & Noble: We’re ‘Not Competing’ With Independent Bookstores (MocoNews) E-Book Bummer: Growth Slower Than Thought—‘Incremental, Not Exponential’ (Paid Content) Hard work of publisher restructuring begins – and the #1 reason many will fail (eReport) ALA Midwinter [ Read More ]
Those of you who have been following the world of P2P are quite familiar how the clamp down on music piracy got started. For a while, people did get away with downloading music illegally before the lawsuits started to emerge. Devices such as the Kindle are ebook pirates’ best friends. E-book publishers are now claiming [ Read More ]
It’s a notable day for eBooks. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is finally available as an eBook for the first time, it was announced today by Simon & Schuster, which has been the hardcover publisher of Bradbury’s classic work of science fiction since it was first published in 1953. The publication in digital form comes as [ Read More ]
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GoodEReader.com’s Indie Author Initiative profiled self-published author Steve Umstead earlier this year with his first title, Gabriel’s Redemption, in which Commander Gabriel found himself on a perilous space mission made all the more dangerous by inside politics and a serious case of “don’t-trust-anybody.” For this week’s Ebook of the Week feature, Umstead is giving away [ Read More ]
App developer Inkstone Software has several iOS ereading apps to its credit — MegaReader, Young Reader and QuickReader. QuickReader teaches speed reading and Young Reader is a version of QuickReader optimized for kids. Inkstone has just released a new app dubbed eBook Search that is quite interesting. eBook Search lets you search for, purchase and [ Read More ]
HOSTILE WITNESS by Rebecca Forster (Kindle edition), a legal thriller, currently stands atop the Top 100 Free Best Sellers in the Kindle store. RATING: 4.5 out of 5 Book Description When sixteen-year-old Hannah Sheraton is arrested for the murder of her stepgrandfather, the chief justice of the California Supreme court, her distraught mother turns to [ Read More ]
The expanding popularity of portable e-book readers has e-gadget manufacturers climbing the walls to improve, innovate and expand operations, portability and user convenience. Amazon’s Kindle broke open the e-book reader market, although it wasn’t the first e-book reader on the scene. Barnes & Noble’s Nook is a terrific product as well, and its now-generation reader [ Read More ]
Simon & Schuster is discounting ebooks on three of their most popular authors. Mary Higgins Clark, Jeffery Deaver and James Lee Burke all have an assortment of their popular titles marked down to .99 through the end of August. Titles included Clark’s “Two Little Girls in Blue,” Deaver’s “The Sleeping Doll” and Burke’s “Rain Gods.” [ Read More ]
Nook Newsstand adds Time, People, Fortune CNET Owners of Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color have even more reading material to choose from with more than 200 interactive magazines now available through the Nook Newstand. Another self-publishing phenomenon goes traditional: John Locke LA Times Self-published author John Locke has signed a deal with a traditional publisher. [ Read More ]
