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The real impact of Macmillan vs. Amazon vs. iPad vs. ebook Customers
So its been a few weeks since the entire kerfluffle over ebook pricing. Readers have gone on in their quest for stuff to read, Amazon prices are slowly edging up and most bloggers and Twitterites have moved on to other subjects. That may be just what the publishers wanted because a year from now, only [...]
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The Kindle War
(Update 9:20PM 1/31/2010) – Well, Amazon gave into MacMillan’s demands for higher prices. For the full story see the NYT article here. It remains to see what, if any fallout there is for the publisher or the ebook industry as a whole. Certainly, publishers own their content and can set the pricing for it, but I [...]
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Where has all the Fantasy gone?
Don’t get me wrong, I love my vamps and shifters as much as the next gal (gal!?), but where have all the wizards and castles and political intrigue and precocious apprentices gone? There seems to be a serious lack of irritable dwarves and evil orcs. I am starving for a taste of real world building [...]
Jan 14th, 2010 | Filed under Book Releases, Book ReviewsTags: Fantasy Books, New Fantasy -
New Place to buy Kindle books – Fictionwise
Want an alternative to the Amazon Kindle store? Head on over to the Fictionwise Kindle store and click away. All you have to do is register on the site. Once you’ve done so you can elect to have the books sent wirelessly to your Kindle–remember Amazon charges $ .15/MB, or you can move your purchases [...]
Dec 16th, 2009 | Filed under Book Releases -
Publishers – Get on the ebook train please?
I’ve been following the whole Google Editions progression with interest. As a strict ereader (no DTB), I would love to buy some of my old favorite books. The ones that remained on my shelf no matter what, the ones I never loaned, the ones that I bought again and again over the years, ending up [...]
Nov 4th, 2009 | Filed under Book Releases, Independent AuthorsTags: Ebooks

