Guest Commentary: Publisher’s decision to limit eBook access is bad news for library patrons A recent decision by a book publisher to limit public libraries’ access to eBooks should concern readers and authors everywhere.… Read More
Amazon’s Kindle Unlimited, ‘book stuffing,’ and the darker side of being a digital content consumer Convenience. Portability. Access. All are reasons that consumers have embraced digital content. The ability we have to rapidly find an… Read More
Traditional publishers’ ebook sales drop as indie authors and Amazon take off Ebook sales are dying. Ebooks are insanely popular. If the short definition of cognitive dissonance is holding two contradictory ideas… Read More
Polaroid, vinyl…and paperbacks? Bookstore sales are up for the first time in 8 years The battle between digital and analog is a David and Goliath match. But peddlers of antiquated products do have a… Read More
New features added to Amazon Giveaway, tool for running online promo contests Amazon announced today that Kindle eBooks and items Fulfilled by Amazon can now be used as contest prizes by users of Amazon Giveaway,… Read More
Amazon’s other physical retail test: A mini bookstore for Kindle ebooks It only takes up a couple square feet, a small fraction of the size of Amazon’s first real bookstore in Seattle,… Read More
Paper is back: Why ‘real’ books are on the rebound All hail paper, the book reading technology resurgent. Eight years after the first Amazon Kindle and five years since the… Read More
E-book sound effects: Google wants to patent audio ‘trigger points’ for digital reading Are you ready to add another of the human senses to your reading experience? Google has been working on… Read More
How to Win the Ebook War [Editor’s Note: Former Amazon manager Jason Merkoski, one of the early leaders of the company’s Kindle team, is the author… Read More
Video game vet creates books you can play with, reaches $10K Kickstarter goal in 4 days It all added up for Joe Booth. Having spent 25 years in the video game industry at places like Microsoft,… Read More
Paper trumps tech at national library conference I went looking for the digital future of libraries at the American Library Association’s Midwinter Meeting this week. Conveniently, the… Read More
Why eBooks won’t rule the Earth The certainty in the headlines is almost palpable. “eBooks Now ‘Dominant Single Format’ in Adult Fiction Sales,” shouted book publishing… Read More
Kindle Touch to launch in Europe April 27 Amazon’s Kindle Touch will finally make it across the pond to Europe, five months after its U.S. launch — but… Read More
Amazon adds DRM to ‘DRM-free’ Harry Potter eBooks Those expecting to unwind with all seven Harry Potter volumes in glorious, DRM-unencumbered pixel are likely in for a disappointment,… Read More
Can ebooks fuel innovation? Startups explore the potential A group of startups met up this week in Redmond for the first Ebook Innovation Summit, a small gathering of… Read More
When eBooks attack, mass paperbacks die The mass market paperback is dead. It just doesn’t know it yet. Ailing for months, its demise is now all… Read More
Startup Spotlight: Bluefire looks to spark eBook sales More consumers are turning to electronic reading devices. And Seattle’s Bluefire Productions, which emerged from founder Micah Bower’s 10-year-old design… Read More
Michael Hart, inventor of the eBook, dies at age 64 Tacoma native and electronic book pioneer Michael S. Hart has died at the age of 64. Before Kindle, Nook or… Read More
Lawsuit claims Apple and publishers colluded on eBook pricing in fear of Amazon.com A Seattle law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit accusing Apple and five book publishers of engaging in price fixing… Read More
Kobo inks $50 million round for electronic reading gadgets, digital bookstore Amazon.com’s Kindle may have a leadership position right now in electronic reading devices and digital books. But the market continues… Read More
