Category: Publishing
MacMillan Forces Amazon To increase eBook Prices To $14.99
In a recent drama, MacMillan made it publicly known that they were having problems with Amazon over the pricing scheme of eBooks on the Kindle platform. MacMillan was apparently already…
Borders Makes Kobo eBook Store
Borders, in association with the Canadian publishing company called Kobo, has become the latest company to venture into the world of eBooks. This includes both reader devices and the selling…
Foxit Makes Online Store For Its Readers
Of course, everyone is jumping into the eBook thing. And that too before Apple arrives with their market altering tablet and makes everyone feel like they need to go back…
On Publishers Holding Back E-Books
News about several major publishers delaying e-Book releases in 2010 have been circulating for some time and eventually made it to Wall Street Journal (article about Simon & Schuster and…
Skiff To Help Save The Publishers
Skiff, owned by Hearst Corporation, specializes in delivering digital content like newspapers and magazines. Come 2010, they are going to launch a new service that will rival with Amazon and…
What Needs To Be Changed In eBook Publishing
The Kindle is a great device. It’s owners are by and large satisfied with their purchases and no one will argue that the Kindle makes eBook reading anything but a…
Time Inc. Creating Their Own eReader?
According to a leaked internal document, Time Inc. may release their own eReader device. Consumers would be able to buy subscriptions to Time publications (such as Time, Sports Illustrated, and…
BlogKindle.com now available on Kindle Store
BlogKindle.com is now available as subscription and can be wirelessly delivered directly to your Kindle along with 4,400+ other blogs currently in the blog section of Kindle Store. Since Amazon…
The Future of the Book
Scribe Media discusses the future of books, and how e-books could possibly be the future – or at least part of it. Its a fascinating discussion with Bob Stein who…
Are e-books ready for technical content?
If e-book readers are to ever catch on then they must be able to display all kinds of documents and information, from novels to picture albums to technical documents. This…