Category: E-Books
One (Bad) Way To Get Yourself Noticed As A Kindle Author
When writing a book that you intend to put out through something like the Kindle‘s self publishing platform, there are always going to be complications. There’s a reason that publishing…
Kindle Book Recommendations: Health
While presenting these recommendations, I’ve gotten a lot of responses about non-literary Kindle books. Admittedly, I’ve questioned throwing anything like that up here, but I figure that since people are…
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…
The Current State of the Agency Model and Why It Matters: The Effect on Kindle Book Publishing
So, we’re back again to the conversation regarding the ever-unpopular Agency Model for pricing of Kindle and other eBooks. For once we have some actual solid new developments, though not…
Quality and Kindle Book Publication
A few weeks ago, I posted some recommendations for Kindle-based reading material. One of the books I brought up caused some problems for people because, while the book itself was…
Kindle Piracy Thoughts
The Kindle platform, along with several other similar pushes into the emerging eBook industry, has improved availability of books significantly. If nothing else, there’s no longer even the possibility of…
More on Apple vs Kindle for iOS devices
So, Apple vs the Amazon Kindle platform. I brought this topic up a few days ago, I know, but it bears repeating now that representatives from Apple have come out…
Kindle Book Recommendations: Science Fiction Staples
This shouldn’t come across as much of a surprise to anybody, given my admitted love of high tech reading and the tools associated with it, but I’m a fan of…
Considering the Future of Kindle Publishing
We can take it for granted today that the future of book publication revolves around the eBook. Yes, I will acknowledge that it is unlikely to ever be the sole…
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…