Category: Books
Will Rowling’s ‘Pottermore’ Change Digital Distribution As We Know It?
J.K Rowling, long term eBook holdout, has decided to finally let the Harry Potter series out for the Kindle and into the eReading marketplace in general. It’s good news for…
Kindle Store Success May Indicate Percieved eBook Value Beyond Simple Savings
Something that most early adopters of the Kindle were eager to see was the impressive price drops that eBooks promised to bring. Compared to the expense of creating, transporting, and…
Kindle Books and Lending: The Complicated Relationship
Over the course of the eReader race so far, one of the biggest points of contention has been the potential for book lending. For quite a while, this was a…
Borders Bankruptcy Details
I know I mentioned this the other day in passing, when it was just an incredibly probable rumor I believe, but Borders(NYSE:BGP) is officially filing for Bankruptcy. As one might…
Free Kindle Books on Open Library
Open Library is an amazing non-profit project (partially funded by California State Library). It is trying to catalog book (and e-book) titles and their locations, thus creating a gigantic library. As…
Free Kindle Books on Feedbooks
Feedbooks is a book store, selling books and e-books with an unpredictable price deviation in comparison the Kindle Books on Amazon. Some books are cheaper and some books are more…
Tolstoy and Kindle
As I was reading Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog (which I quite enjoyed, by the way), I could not help myself but notice that the author emblematizes intelligence…
Ina Garten Kindle Books
As Thanksgiving is almost here, Google has displayed one of their special Google Doodle logos about Thanksgiving recipes. The doodle specifically highlights chef Ina Garten. I took a quick look…
Amazon Announces Lending Feature for Kindle
The moment we have all been waiting for has finally arrived. Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has finally announced plans to allow Kindle book sharing among Kindle users. Like the Nook, the…
Hunger Games Trilogy Kindle Edition
Mockingjay, the final book in Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games series has been all the rage recently. At the moment it holds the #5 spot on Amazon.com’s Kindle and Kindle DX…