When you buy an Amazon Kindle book, a copy of your purchase is automatically stored in the cloud. This means even if you lost or damage your Kindle, your books are safely stored in Amazon’s server. However, if it gives you a peace of mind to see backup copies of your Kindle books on your [...]
Shortly after the launch of Google Books last year, WSJ analyst James McQuivey predicted that the digital publishing industry would soon move towards ad-supported eBooks: “…soon, we will no longer need to force the entire cost of a book on the buyer of the book, but instead can extract value from the reader of [...]
Trips to library may not become a thing of the past as some people envision, but eReaders like Sony and Nook have made library book borrowing easy, fast, and convenient. Borrowing books from a virtual library is a great way to access and read thousands of books for free. In recreating the traditional library experience, [...]
Kobo, a global digital reading service, today announced a contest in which all Kobo customers, with the purchase of an eBook, are eligible to win one of many exciting prizes – including the grand prize: a one week stay at a Fairmont Hotels Caribbean Resort. The “Kobo Stack and Win” contest, ending November 19, 2010 [...]
Amazon announced a short time ago the Kindle For The Web, a feature that lets you sample and share Kindle ebooks with friends. The service is open to all Kindle edition titles. The Kindle For Web lets you read a book sample from the Amazon website directly on your browser. No download or installation needed. [...]
There are two interesting posts this week regarding Amazon Kindle book sales. One is from the Business Insider: The site claims Amazon has sold 22 million eBooks this year and that figure comprises 6% of the overall book market. How did the Business Insider arrive at this number? First, they took Nielsen Bookscan’s hardcover book [...]
Novels, novellas, a collection of recipes, a collection of short stories or poems, scientific research paper – whatever digital document you think of, you have the opportunity of publishing and selling it on the Kindle Store even without an ISBN. That sounds easy, but there’s a catch to self-publishing. Generally speaking, it is more expensive than [...]
The wide range of ebook formats currently available can easily confuse consumers. What matters are the ones that will work on your reading device/s. Another criteria that you can consider would be the number of publishers that use the format or the range of books available in that format. Here is a list and brief [...]
Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO has just revealed the new iPhone 4 in the WWDC convention. He’s also revealing some numbers on the revolution the iPad is currently leading in the eBook market. According to Jobs, The iPad has collected 22 percent of ebook sales since its launch and is getting new features. A PDF viewer [...]
The Taiwanese company BenQ will release a new eReader in August. The device will be called nReader. The company will also launch a new eBook platform in Taiwan and China in around Spetember of 2010. [Source: The-Digital-Reader]