NEWS, TIPS & ADVICE FOR EBOOK LOVERS
Four John le Carre titles arrive on the virtual shelves of ebook retailers this week including an enhanced version of the author's Our Kind of Traitor which includes never before seen video and audio content. The bonus content includes an audio recording of le Carre talking about a meeting with a Russian gangster … [Read more...]
Last month I lamented the gaps in ebook ranges, specifically a number of John Le Carre's George Smiley books which had vanished from stores despite having initially been available as part of a matching collection. It seems the titles disappeared because of a change of publisher and at the time I expressed the hope … [Read more...]
After weeks of speculation, music retailer and venue owner HMV group has announced a £53m sell-off of bookseller Waterstones. The book chain, which has 296 stores across the UK and Ireland, is being sold to Alexander Mamut's A&NN Group with the deal expected to be completed by the end of June. The sale is … [Read more...]
Retail giant Amazon has claimed UK Kindle titles outsell hardbacks "at a rate of more than 2 to 1" as it issued an update on the growth of its ebook platform. "This is truly astonishing when you consider that we've been selling hardcover books from Amazon.co.uk for over 13 years and Kindle books for only nine months," … [Read more...]
Until recently in the UK all ebooks were equal. You could buy a reader from Waterstones and put on it a book you'd bought from Foyles or WHSmith because all ereaders and all ebooks supported the same Digital Rights Management (DRM). Unlike the US, there was no vendor lock-in. You didn't need either to buy all your … [Read more...]
