(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 [...]
READ MORE »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 [...]
READ MORE »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 [...]
READ MORE »Kindle Kvetching
Is it me, or does browsing for a Kindle book via the Amazon site pretty much suck? (We’ll talk about searching later–yuck!) And it’s getting worse! I hate to say it, but I’m blaming it on all the self-publishing, both for public domain and original texts. In fact, that’s why I started this blog. I [...]
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