NEWS, TIPS & ADVICE FOR EBOOK LOVERS
Multi-platform ebook retailer Kobo used yesterday's start of the London Book Fair to announce plans for local European stores tailored to offer " a rich assortment of local content, merchandised to the tastes and preferences of readers across Europe." The first two stores to launch will be aimed at customers in … [Read more...]
The growing importance of ebooks and digital reading is highlighted at the London Book Fair which got underway at Earls Court yesterday. Amongst the names exhibiting are ebook retailer Kobo, which has announced plans to "tailor" services for select European markets, digital magazine retailer Zinio, ereader … [Read more...]
One of the biggest annoyances with ebooks is gaps in series, what's even worse is when gaps appear in a series AFTER you've started buying one. Part way through my purchasing of John Le Carre's George Smiley books (nicely organised into a series with matching covers by Hodder & Stoughton), The Spy Who Came in from the … [Read more...]
Since taking up ebook reading the majority of books I've purchased have fallen into two distinct groups - old favourites I've not read for years and no longer own as paper books and books I'd probably never normally have picked up. If I walk into a book store or browse an ebook store I often find myself overwhelmed by … [Read more...]
The internet gods probably won’t thank me for adding yet another post about ebook pricing to the hordes already attracting heated exchanges about piracy and ‘ripoff’ publishers but I wanted to address an aspect of the discussion which tends to get drowned out by the entrenched positions of both ‘sides’ in the … [Read more...]
