SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Oct. 5, 2016– (NASDAQ: AMZN) – Amazon today introduced Prime Reading, a new reading benefit for U.S. Prime members. Prime members can now enjoy unlimited reading from a rotating selection of books, magazines, comics and more – at no additional cost. Prime Reading joins the growing list of all-you-can-eat benefits for Prime members including unlimited fast,…
Top 7 Tremendous iPad and iPhone Apps for Booklovers – Hilda Simpson | Guest Post
If you have a great passion for both reading and gadgets, then you should use your iPhone or iPad to its fullest ability to read e-books and news. Having a mobile gadget allows you all the benefits of reading wherever you are: in a train, on a plane, standing in a line for a cup…
E-Readers Vs. Print Books
Which is the More Eco-Friendly Choice? Reading just got a whole lot more complicated: Once confined to print materials, today’s readers now have a plethora of devices to choose from to get their literary fix. Smartphones, laptops, tablets, and e-readers are transforming the reading landscape. On the surface, this may seem like a good thing—the…
Apple Surprise Mini Gathering with iPad 4 Launch
The release of the iPad mini may have captured the attention of many today, but Apple’s real surprise at the press event was the debut of the iPad 4th generation. It’s just six months since the last model hit the streets, and it will have left many pulling their hair out now the latest model…
Kbuuk – Reviewed
[Kbuuk simply comes from blending the words cloud and book, with an alternate spelling for uniqueness and discoverability. The pronunciation is intended to be a hard and swift K’bŏk, not Kā-bŏk or Kä-bŏk.] Kbuuk is a digital publishing platform for authors, based in Houston, Texas, and founded by Isaac Shi and Dougal Cameron in 2011.…
Guest Post: Online Publishing with a Twist | Amanda Meuwissen of BigWorldNetwork
Combining ebooks, audiobooks and eventual paperbacks in episodic eSeries, BigWorldNetwork.com may be the new television for books. Guest poster and Managing Editor at BWN, Amanda Meuwissen explains: BigWorldNetwork.com is The eSeries Network, a new kind of publisher offering serialized online publication of fiction and non-fiction, audio versions of all eSeries episodes, and eventual compilations to…
Guest Post: Why I Am Moving to Kindle Land | Melissa Miller
Cover via Amazon If you would have asked me a year ago whether or not I would consider purchasing an e-reader, I would have looked you in the eye with offense and answered you with a simple, “no.” A lot has changed, though, in the past few months that have made me rethink my opinion…
The Future of Publishing 2020: Control or (Jeff Bezos stole all my books and ate all the hamsters!)
I’ve been preparing this article for a while on the future of self-publishing 2020. One thing I have learned is that predicting the future based on current practices and trends is a precarious business. The publishing industry – as a community and business – is undergoing an utter sea change in methodology and ideology not…
Guest Post | New Technologies and Self-Publishing: The Pros and Cons by Katheryn Rivas
There’s no doubt about it, we’re neck deep in the Digital Age. With so many aspects of our lives taking place plugged in and online, very few of us can deny that the digital world—once so foreign and unfamiliar—is now different from just the world we live in. Our world—the world of the everyday—is the…
Bowker | British Book Buyers Switching To eBooks From Print and Spending Less
From the latest press release from Bowker UK… British Book Buyers are Switching to “e” from Print and Spending Less Bowker plots latest purchasing trends via BML’s Books & Consumers survey London, United Kingdom – February 14, 2012 – E-book sales are rising to offset a decline in physical book purchases, but only in volume. With…