What’s Old is New Again: O’Reilly Publishes Time-Release eBook Experiment
If “lean startups” these days are supposed to release a minimum viable product, get reactions from initial customers, and then rapidly iterate – might not a book about startups work the same way? Every Book is a Startup is Todd Sattersten’s new book, …
Read More →You Can Read, But You Can’t Buy: iOS E-Reader Apps Remove Links to Bookstores
New rules governing how iOS apps handle in-app purchases went into effect on June 30, and the date passed without much fanfare and seemingly without much compliance from many apps that continued to offer content for sale. These apps included e-reader …
Read More →Enable Comments in the Margins of Your Website with Highlighter (& 1 Line of JavaScript)
One of the longstanding laments about our move to digital literature is how difficult and cumbersome this makes marginalia, those notes and annotations we make in the margins of printed text. A story in The New York Times earlier this year went so f…
Read More →Textbook Rentals Come to the Kindle: Probably Not a Money-Saver
Amazon unveiled a Kindle Textbook Rental, giving students the ability to rent instead of buy digital textbooks. Amazon says that “tens of thousands” of titles from some of the major textbook publishers – including John WIley & Sons, Wlsevier, and Tayl…
Read More →E-Reader Ownership Doubled in 6 Months, Growing Faster than Tablets
Ownership of e-readers is exploding, according to a survey by Pew Internet Research. Over the past six months, ownership of e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Nook has grown from 6% to 12% of U.S. adults. E-readers are more popular …
Read More →Is This The Tipping Point For E-Books & Libraries?
The American Library Association (ALA) has just released its 2011 Public Library Funding and Technology Access Survey, and among its findings, 67% of public libraries in the U.S. now offer free access to e-books for their patrons. That’s up 30% since …
Read More →J.K. Rowling’s Next Chapter: A Transfiguration Spell on the Publishing Industry
Author J.K. Rowling unveiled the plans behind the mysterious Pottermore website this morning, and fans that were hoping for a new installment in the beloved Harry Potter series or for a wizarding MMORG may be disappointed. But for those who’ve been wa…
Read More →Can E-Books Save Barnes & Noble?
The publishing and bookseller world as a whole has seen substantial shake-up over the last few years: the rise of the e-book, the collapse of Borders, for example. And the world’s largest bookseller Barnes & Noble has received its own fair share of mi…
Read More →Self-Published Author Sells a Million E-Books on Amazon
Since the Kindle’s launch, Amazon has heralded each new arrival into what it calls the “Kindle Million Club,” the group of authors who have sold over 1 million Kindle e-books. There have been seven authors in this club up ’til now – some of the big na…
Read More →Kerouac’s On the Road on iPad (or, Why Every Great Literary Work Doesn’t Need an App)
A Kindle version of Jack Kerouac’s autobiographical novel On the Road will run you $12.99, substantially more than the couple of bucks that a paperback version costs. But let’s sidestep the “print versus digital” debate for a moment. Because for the …
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