Did you notice that e-books became a little more expensive after Apple entered the game with iBooks? So did the U.S. Department of Justice, which may be threatening to sue Apple and e-book publishers for allegedly colluding to …
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5 Famous Writers Who Loathe E-Books
Jonathan Franzen and other famous writers that won’t be reading novels on a Kindle anytime soon.
Digital Library Lending Up 130% in 2011
If you build it, they will come. Not just words of wisdom from a Kevin Costner movie anymore, but the experience of libraries across America. They’ve seen a triple-digit jump in the amount of digital lending during the last year …
Apple Poised to ‘Digitally Destroy’ Textbooks? Don’t Bet On It
We’ll be there (and live-blogging) at Apple’s “education event” this Thursday, Jan. 19 at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, but the scuttlebutt going in has Cupertino announcing a platform to — wait for it — “digitally destroy” …
Amazon Prime’s Free Kindle E-Book List Leans on Filler, Public Domain
The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library sounds like a good deal, with more than 5,000 Kindle e-books available for free if you have an Amazon Prime subscription. But many of the most popular titles are filler in the form of public domain books, self-help books and video-based workout instructions.
Amazon started offering free e-book …
Amazon ‘Prime’ Members Now Get Free Kindle E-Book Rentals
Amazon’s bringing free Kindle e-book rentals to Amazon Prime members, but a bunch of restrictions make the service less attractive than it could be.
The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, as it’s officially called, lets Amazon Prime members check out one book at a time in one-month increments. If the member switches to another book when …
Digital Publishers, Booksellers Face Multiple Pricefixing Suits
If the price of digital books has ever struck you as seeming too high, you’re not alone. Digital booksellers and major book publishers alike are facing no less than 17 class action lawsuits alleging digital price fixing.
The initial lawsuit, against Apple and five publishers, was filed in California in August, and followed the next …
How to Borrow Library Books on Your Kindle
Great news for Amazon Kindle owners. E-book downloads are now available from over 11,000 libraries around the country. Borrowed books sport many of the same features that come along with books purchased from Amazon—synching, notes, highlights—but the books must be found via your local library’s website, not through Amazon’s e-book …
E-Book Sales Rise More than 1,000% Since 2008
Well, here’s one growth industry in the middle of our dire economic straits: According to a new survey of sales revenue provided by more than 2,000 publishers in the U.S., book sales are rising, with e-book revenue growing a surprising 1,274% between 2008 and 2010.
Revenue on e-books reached $878 million in 2010, with sales hitting …
New E-Book Reader First to Integrate Google Bookstore
Google is getting deeper into the e-book market by partnering with device manufacturer iRiver on the upcoming “Story HD” e-book reader.
It’ll go on sale this Sunday at Target for $140 and it features a built-in Wi-Fi connection with content available for purchase through the Google eBookstore that was launched late last …
Pilots Replace Paper Manuals with iPads (Even During Takeoff)
Another day, another “look who’s using the iPad now!” story.
According to the New York Times, airplane pilots are the latest to join the tablet craze. American Airlines, Alaska Airlines and Executive Jet Management have all allowed pilots to store reference manuals — a collection of documents that weighs 40 pounds on paper — on …
Leanpub: How to Turn Your Blog into an Instant E-Book
So. You got a blog. You want to turn it into a e-book, with a minimal amount of fuss and hard work.
You need Leanpub. It’s a new service for writers who want to do minimalist home-grown publishing on their own terms, in a variety of formats that will suit owners of iPads, Kindles, and other e-readers.
It’s also a completely new …