NEWS, TIPS & ADVICE FOR EBOOK LOVERS
After weeks of rumours about cut-price or even free Kindles, Amazon has confirmed that US customers will be able to save $25 on the price of Kindle in return for being subjected to adverts. By most people standards, $25 is a pretty small sum - if you're having to offer such a measly discount to sell units are the … [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...]
This week's news of an OFT investigation into the agency pricing model being used by ebook publishers went down especially well with Kindle users posting on Amazon's forums, many of whom are clearly not paying attention to the OFT's caveat that "it should not be assumed that the parties involved have breached … [Read more...]
