Category: E-Books
Amazon Introduces “KDP Select” For Kindle Direct Publishing Authors
The big news of the day is Amazon’s introduction of a potentially huge incentive for authors to make their content exclusive to the Kindle platform. Starting immediately, any author or…
Kindle Meets Video Games: Ambitious Fan Makes Skyrim Book Compilation
When it comes to video games, Bethesda’s The Elder Scrolls franchise is a giant and the latest installment, Skyrim, received an almost ridiculous amount of attention in the months leading…
Penguin, Overdrive, and Amazon: Kindle Library Lending Gets Complicated
Kindle owners found themselves targeted recently in a fairly unpleasant way. Penguin USA, one of the largest publishers in the world, decided that it would be a smart business move…
A Kindle Conversion: Why The EPUB Argument Stopped Mattering
Amazon made what appeared to be some fairly big opponents in the earliest days of the Kindle. All they had to do was decide to go with a closed format. …
Amazon Prime Kindle Owners’ Lending Library: How, What, and Why
Assuming you have both a Kindle and an active Amazon Prime membership, you now get to make use of Amazon’s latest eBook related service, the Amazon Prime Kindle Owners’ Lending…
Inkstone Finds A Way To Compensate For Apple’s Anti-Kindle Stance
The iPad and the Kindle have always had a curious love/hate relationship that can be enough to drive many users nuts. While they were expected to compete for users from…
Kindle Book Library For Amazon Prime Members Coming Soon…Maybe
Apparently Amazon has been working on a way to offer Amazon Prime customers a Kindle platform lending library experience similar to what Netflix users have come to expect. While this…
A Tribute to Michael Hart, Founder of Project Gutenberg
Michael Hart, the founder of ebooks and Project Gutenberg, died on September 6, 2011 at the age of 64. His death will be a huge loss for the digital book…
Kindle Editions w/ Multimedia: A Failed Experiment?
While eBook sales have been expanding across the board and the Kindle is flourishing with ever-increasing sales each year, very little has been heard about the Kindle Edition eBook /…
Kobo To Open HTML5 eReading App Similar To Kindle Cloud Reader
Fascinated as we are by the platform here, Kindle users are far from the only group to be inconvenienced by Apple’s in-app purchasing guideline enforcement. Apple built the popularity of…