Tag Archives: ebook
Digital books and devices: An opportunity or a Threat?
Interesting article on the shift of paradigm within the publishing industry. where ebooks are no longer perceived as a threat but an opportunity (or may be I should say less perceived as a threat). Peason and Bloomsbury reported that their … Continue reading
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The Ebook Market Is Growing Faster As It Grows Larger
The ebook market is growing faster as it grows larger. The International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) on Friday reported U.S. wholesale ebook sales for January, 2010 were $31.9 million, up 261 percent from the same month a year earlier. To … Continue reading
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Another Author bows to ebook trend – John Grisham
John Grisham, one of the best known thriller author across the globe has finally decided to open up all his backlist of 23 novels in ebook format. Which means that owners of Kindle, Nook, Sony ereader and soon iPad will … Continue reading
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What Rights Do You have on your Digital Books
Really interesting article in Electronic Frontier Foundation site. The article talks about various rights issues that the user should think about before buying a digital books. Some of the issues covered by author Does it (your e-book reader/service/tool, etc.) protect … 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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BISG report on e-book industry!
Some quick findings from the report: Roughly 1/5 of survey respondents said they’ve stopped purchasing print books within the past 12 months in favor of acquiring the e-book editions. Most survey respondents said they prefer to share e-books across devices. … Continue reading
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3 Areas Publishers Should Look into for Their eBook Content StrategyA
2010 is going to see a multitude of new eBook devices being launched, lots of user feedback, experimentation and plenty of uncertainty over which platform to choose for the eReader device. But in order to plan and benefit from onslaught … Continue reading
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Really Nice Online Service to Browse Book Covers
What a perfect subject for my blog post. In the last blog post itself I talked about how difficult it might be to get cover images and just saw this really nice site where you can browse through thousands of … Continue reading
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