Many publishers are taking a conservative approach to eBook publishing, mostly because of fear that digital books will adversely affect the sale of print editions. This is especially true in reference book publishing. Recently though, more book publishers are looking eBooks square in the eye. The fears are being allayed by a developing customer channel.
Penguin, [...]
Buried in this New York Times article on the digital-ness of Amazon.com is a word or two about Kindle and a little prognostication about growth of the digital market:
The Kindle electronic book reader, now four months old, is another primary cog in Amazon’s digital strategy. Sales across the book publishing industry are flat; e-books represent [...]
The eBook reader hasn’t actually revolutionized the market, but some publishing officials are willing to concede that they’ve seen increased eBook sales.
Sales for the most popular books are in the hundreds, comparable to the number for the Sony Reader, which came out in 2006.
“The Kindle has increased awareness. Publishers have told me that in [...]
Back when I was a kid, we could depend on a visit from the local bookmobile. The customized Winnebago containing shelves of books would pull up to my school and park there for the afternoon. It wasn’t like the bookmobile had special books not found anywhere else. In fact, I think the school library had [...]
Gizmodo wonders aloud…when you “buy” “content” for Amazon’s Kindle or the Sony Reader, are you buying a crippled license to intellectual property when you download, or are you buying a book?
It was just a matter of time before a discussion of the “first sale” doctrine commenced as it relates to the electronic book. eBooks with [...]
I’ve never even picked up one of these books, but they’re hard to miss when you’re in the checkout line at your local grocery store. Today, Harlequin announced they’re going all e-book with over 120 titles published per month. That’s right - per MONTH!
Harlequin said yesterday that from this point forward it is making its [...]
The massive bookstore chain announce today that they’ll be moving to ’second base’ in their relationship with Sony’s e-book reader.
Borders is expanding its relationship with Sony, adding the technology company’s e-book reader to over 200 more of its superstores, while also agreeing to develop a co-branded store to facilitate e-book sales. Borders has been selling [...]
I was amazed at the coverage this story received last week. According to numerous outlets, the International Digital Publishing Forum voted overwhelmingly to accept the Open Publication Structure 2.0 eBook specification as an official industry standard.
Ok, so, the question is, does the industry care? I’d like to meet a publishing executive who gets goose-bumps looking [...]
Yesterday while I was listening to the CEO from Adobe talk about new technologies during O’Reilly’s Tools of Change Conference, he mentioned the release of a new web app called Adobe Digital Editions. So, I popped on over to the website to check it out. The software is both Windows and Mac compatible. Oh, and [...]