Category Archives: ebooks
Vook offers free Guns N’ Roses enhanced ebook for two days
From what I’ve read online, most people have mixed feelings at best for Vook, a company formed to create and sell “enhanced ebooks” that embed video, audio, and social media elements in the text. I’m still on the fence; the … Continue reading
Posted in Apple iOS, apps, ebooks, free, promotions
Tagged albums, appetite for destruction, behind the music, behind the scenes, documentaries, enhanced ebooks, free, gnr, guns n' roses, history, interviews, rock, slash, vook
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Booki.sh launches Australian ebook store where you can’t download your purchases
It begins! The ebooks-in-the-cloud concept that I warned against earlier this week, the one publishers say is the ideal future marketplace (for them, not for consumers), is in private beta right now in Australia. It’s using the Monocle web-based ebook … Continue reading
Posted in business, ebooks, online
Tagged anti-consumer, australia, bad, browsers, cloud, drm, ebooks, javascript, licensing, monocle, readings, restrictions, retailers, web based
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Indie ebook “hall of fame” site tracks the best reviewed self-published books
If you’re looking for something new to read that’s not from one of the big publishing houses, check out the Indie eBook Hall of Fame blog. It’s a bare bones site set up by Joanna, a Teleread contributor and fan … Continue reading
Posted in authors, ebooks, online, self publishing
Tagged best of, ebooks, independent, indie, recommendations, reviews, self published, suggestions
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What Neil Gaiman likes about the Kindle, and why you should care
Hopefully you don’t need a Famous Author to validate your purchasing decisions, so I’m not posting about Neil Gaiman’s opinions on the Kindle just to make you feel better/worse about your new ereader. Instead, I thought it might provide some … Continue reading
Posted in commentary, copyright, DIY, ebooks, hardware, Kindle 3, Kobo, people
Tagged advocacy, authors, cloud storage, consumer rights, copyright, drm, ebooks, ereaders, fair use, good design, kindle, licenses, licensing, neil gaiman, publishers, usability
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Dehydrated books, or how to make money off of fan fiction and unauthorized sequels
Imagine that this evening I follow a friend’s link to a new Harry Potter book, one that essentially replaces “The Sorcerer’s Stone” in the canon with a Year 1 adventure that’s darker and closer in tone to the final few … Continue reading
Posted in business, commentary, copyright, DIY, ebooks, ideas, online
Tagged amateur, copyright, digital, fanfic, fans, ideas, infringement, publishing, technology, tools
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Gooseberry Patch giving away three mini-cookbooks for Kindle
UPDATE 23 August 2011: These titles are no longer free—see comment below. The cookbook publisher has three short titles, each with 25 recipes, posted for free on the Kindle Store. One covers mac & cheese, one covers meatloaf, and one … Continue reading
Why cloud-based ebooks bring out the Luddite in me
As I wrote previously, my current position on the books-in-the-cloud business model is that it’s deeply anti-consumer, because it takes away all concepts of ownership and passes the control upstream to the retailer and/or publisher. I’ve been surprised (but happy) … Continue reading →