Monthly Archives: November 2010

Great article in the LA times about the a voracious reader making the conversion to e-books. He made the switch and ‘never looked back’. His device of choice? The latest Kindle. It’s a good article, but one minor point stuck … Continue reading →

Looks like Amazon has a few extra older generation Kindles laying around the warehouse. They’re putting them up for sale on Black Friday for $89. Is that a deal? Well, considering the Kindle 2 uses the same technology as the … Continue reading →

Okay, maybe that title is a bit cliche, but Daron Fraley pointed me to an excellent article on the O’Riley Radar that really catches the vision of all that e-books can provide authors. There really is a lot of good … Continue reading →

I’ve never tried to gift an e-book before, but apparently it wasn’t easy. I own a Kindle, and it’s quite easy to purchase a book and be reading it in just minutes, but apparently there wasn’t an easy way to … Continue reading →

The New York Times will start tracking the bestselling e-books, and report them separately from their other lists. Amazon, currently the e-book king, already tracks their bestsellers, but the NYT will gather data from publishers so that other e-book outlets, … Continue reading →

E Ink Corp, the company that makes the e-ink technology for Kindle, now has a color version. This doesn’t mean that the Kindle will soon be in color, only that the option is now there. The color won’t be as … Continue reading →

Great article over at paidContent. They predict that by 2015, e-books will be a three billion dollar industry (they are a one billion dollar industry right now). I’ve seen a lot of numbers, but these numbers are new, and pretty … Continue reading →

A friend of mine pointed me to this announcement by Publishers Weekly. If you read the article fast, you’ll miss an important part. From the article: Sterling Children’s Books will launch a new teen fiction imprint in January, called Splinter. … Continue reading →

Amazon sent out a press release about a week ago talking about how well e-books are doing. In some cases, e-books are outselling their print counterparts two to one. A robust e-book market is what Amazon is hoping for, since … Continue reading →