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More Restriction leads to higher Piracy!!

One thing that publishers have to start understand is that the tighter control they try to put on the ebook industry by 1. Controlling the release of the books as ebooks 2. Controllling the price of ebooks 3. Controlling the … Continue reading

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3 Reasons Why E-Book Failed In 2000 And What It Means For 2010

There is no doubt that 2010 has a lot to gain from the e-book industry. There are six e-book devices (Kindle, Nook, iPad etc) in the market and more soon to be released. As per predictions from a major business … Continue reading

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Ebook Pricing War Between Apple and Amazon – Who Will Win Publishers or Amazon

As we all know book publishing industry is going through one of the biggest industry defining change in last 100+ years. When the industry seemed all ready to go ahead with the ebooks (with Amazon successfully launching and selling kindle and kindle … Continue reading

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What Stops Users From Buying an Ebook

American Editor recently ran a poll to figure out what stops users from buying an ebook. The results are out and no surprises. 1. 57% of the users feel that they are not comfortable buying ebooks due to DRM restrictions … Continue reading

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places to get ebooks from for your ebook readers

1) Mobipocket Catalogue :  65,000 titles Price :$14 Formats : Mobi Exception: Nook, Sony Reader 2) Project Gutenberg Catalogue: 30,000 titles Price: Not Available Formats: ePub, Mobi, HTML Exceptions: None 3) CyberRead Catalogue: 310,000 titles Price: $14 Formats: ePub, PDF, Mobi Exceptions: None 4) Waterstone’s Catalogue: 21,000 Price: Not Available Formats: ePub Exceptions: Kindle … Continue reading

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Ads in ebooks?

People in industry are already trying to come up with alternative pricing model for the ebooks. Most of the players in the indstry do not believe that Amazon’s $9.99 pricing would duely compensate authors and publishers. Dont be surprised if … Continue reading

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