Gary Marshall, over on TechRadar.com, has a nuts and bolts review of Apple’s new iBooks Author tool for the creation of textbooks. Now that the dust has settled after yesterday’s announcement, I’m not at all convinced that this new tool for self-publishers is a serious rival to Amazon’s Kindle publishing program. You need to ‘click-off’…
Apple Poised To Launch Self-Publishing Program This Month
Apple to launch new Self-Publishing Program later this month | Good E-Reader – ebook Reader and Tablet PC News: Reporting on Good E-Reader this morning, Michael Kozlowski has revealed that Apple will host an event in New York later in January and speculates that it may herald the launch of a self-publishing program for iBooks…
Amazon launches tablet and new Kindle Touch | The Bookseller
Amazon launches tablet and new Kindle Touch The Bookseller Amazon has unveiled a Kindle Touch reader, alongside a brand new tablet device called Kindle Fire. Related articles Amazon Announces $99 Kindle Touch, new Kindle for $79 (readwriteweb.com) Amazon Unveils New $79 E-Ink Kindle, $99 Kindle Touch (techcrunch.com) Amazon Introduces $200 Kindle Fire Touch Tablet, $79…
‘Bill of rights’ for writers seeks bigger share of e-book revenue | Edmonton Journal
Image via Wikipedia ‘Bill of rights’ for writers seeks bigger share of e-book revenue The Writers’ Union of Canada has released A Writer’s Bill of Rights for the Digital Age that addresses challenges writers face as the publishing industry moves to a digital model. Demands in the 12-point document released Thursday include that “the publisher…
Pan MacMillan Australia Announce Digital-Only Imprint
Pan Macmillan Australia today announced the launch of Momentum, a digtal-only imprint, and with books from new and established authors as well as republishing out of print work. From the press release: Pan MacMillan Australia announced today the launch of MOMENTUM, its new digital-only imprint. Momentum will publish an exciting and vibrant list of new…
Amazon Launch Kindle Cloud Reader
Amazon today announced the launch of their online Kindle Cloud Reader application. The Cloud Reader will allow users to read the books they purchase both online and offline. From the press release: For over two years, Amazon has been offering a wide selection of free Kindle reading apps that enable customers to “Buy Once, Read…
Lulu Blog | (Not) Getting Your Book on a Retail Shelf…and the Big ‘E’ RA-RA
Lulu Blog » (Not) Getting Your Book on a Retail Shelf This is always the kind of blog post put out by self-publishing services that irks me. The below piece is from today’s Lulu blog. “I believe that one of the biggest mistakes in any marketing endeavor is not defining a clear goal. It’s easy…
Google and Philadelphia, Here I Come!
Google today announced the launch of the first branded Google ereader to promote and integrate with their own online bookstore. Developed by iriver, the Story HD will sell exclusively to begin through Target stores in the USA at $140. The device looks alarmingly like a first, or at best, second generation Kindle. I have not…
eBook Sales and Seeing The ‘S’ Curve For What It Is
I came across the Kindle published masses turning to Joe Konrath to explain an unexpected downturn in sales. Understandably, Konrath’s self-publishing and ebook success is seen as the line in the sand for so many authors. “I’ve been asked to speculate about the future in several emails, mostly from panicked authors whose Kindle sales have…
e-Book Distribution with BookBaby’s Brian Felsen (video) | The Book Designer
e-Book Distribution with BookBaby’s Brian Felsen (video) | The Book Designer Joel Friedlander has a video interview with Bookbaby’s Brian Felsen on his site, The Book Designer. Bookbaby is a recently launched eBook distribution program for authors and publishers. Bookbaby.com president Brian Felsen interviewed by TheBookDesigner.com from Joel Friedlander on Vimeo. Related articles BookBaby Introduces…