If you purchased an eBook in the last three years, I have some good news! There’s a shot that the publisher owes you a few cents if that title was priced according to the “agency model”. You’re rich! A whole shiny nickel just for you! According to Businessweek: States including Maryland, Ohio and Texas said [...]
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Audiobooks.com Gets Download Friendly
Sarah swears by audiobooks as a way to get through her daily commute, but I mainly use them when we are on long road trips. We have flirted with the idea of an audible.com membership, but the library gives us plenty of access for free, and Audible has never struck me as such a great [...]
Babbel (and others) and the Advancement of Foreign Language eBooks
A lot has happened in the past few years in foreign language instruction. It’s a global world and thanks to the Internet, you can be taught a foreign language by native speakers from anywhere in the world. You can converse with them and other learners from the comfort of your own home with just a [...]
Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust, Book Review of Ken Scott’s Memoir
What is it that you want from reading a music industry legend’s memoir? If what you are looking for is basically an expanded Wikipedia entry with a more detailed listing of events and characters … then stop reading now and just stay away from Ken Scott’s Abbey Road to Ziggy Stardust. If on the other [...]
The Magic Bullet Against Showrooming Is in Running Shoes
Everyone in retail wants to bemoan “show rooming” or the tendency of shoppers to check products out in store, only to buy online. It’s a huge problem, and I am not the only person to point out that customer service can often make the difference between someone shopping in store versus hitting Amazon on their [...]
Seven Poets and the Assassin’s Secret Is a New Kind of Novel
When I heard about the iOS app Seven Poets and the Assassin’s Secret, I couldn’t help but be intrigued. It is a unique, real-time serialized novel centered around a fictional terrorist attack on the Olympic Stadium in London during the closing ceremony. Content runs from August through October, when real-time serialization will end. Seven Poets [...]
Publishing Is under Attack from a “New” Technology … Paperbacks!
Publishing is under attack! It’s an economic downturn, and someone is selling books for much cheaper than they used to be! It’s an unsustainable market situation, and books will go down in flames if someone doesn’t do something! I’m not talking about the terror eBooks has placed into the hearts of publishers. I’m talking about [...]
Sony Releases Another Yawner of an eBook Reader
The folks at The Digital Reader have sharp eyes. Sony has yet to officially announce their PRS-T2 ebook reader, but at TDR they noticed said model is already quietly live at Sony Style for $129.99. There have been very few comments, rumors, or leaks about this device, and for good reason. It’s not terribly exciting. [...]
The Value, Or Lack Thereof, In A DVD Collection
Sarah and I are trying to downsize our personal belongings. I have amassed a ton of random movies and television shows thanks to my time at Borders, and Sarah has a bunch that have accumulated over time. However, we both realized last weekend that we haven’t touched our DVD player in months, we have no [...]
Storybundle Brings Indie eBooks, Readers, and “Pay What You Want” Bundles Together
When I was a kid I was a voracious reader. Obviously I still am, but when I was 11 my parents had a harder time keeping up with my reading habits. I distinctly remember being over the moon with excitement the day my mom signed me up for “The Science Fiction Book Club”, a discount [...]
Diane Duane’s Classic ‘So You Want to Be a Wizard’ Gets Updated for a New Generation
My younger son absolutely LOVED the ‘Young Wizards’ books when he was younger. The stories centered around Nita and Kit so captured his imagination that he continued to read them even to the point where he could digest the entire series in a day. He tracked the site and forums and really hoped for the [...]
In Apple’s World, “Amazon” Might As Well Be a Four Letter World
Someone at Apple needs to keep their finger off the big red button. No, not the nuclear codes, the one that rejects anything related to Amazon. Yes, Apple has been relatively quiet lately, but they once again angered the ebook world with another head scratcher of a rejection, this time for a guide to self-publishing. [...]
B&N and Fastpencil Team Up to Change Publishing
In the last few years, there were two big disrupters that have hit the book world; ebooks exploded out of the gate, changing the structure of sales and pricing, and disrupting the traditional hardcover to paperback release schedule, and that on its own was a huge shift. But there was another piece to this, because [...]
NOOK Goes Web Based
Good news, if you care deeply about reading ebooks on every possible device-B&N has released a web version of the NOOK platform. This is one of those features that every ebook store has felt compelled to offer but frankly, it’s a bit of a yawner. It’s helpful if you want to read on a computer [...]
How Much Do You Weigh? A Book About Women and Their Weight
“You never ask a woman how old she is or how much she weighs.”- I’ve heard this my entire life. When I was a child, getting weighed was exciting. Up until I was in 6th grade or so, I felt like I was in a race to finally weigh 100 pounds; I was a tall [...]
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