NEWS, TIPS & ADVICE FOR EBOOK LOVERS
US shoppers can now save themselves $25 off the price of Amazon's Kindle ebook reader by agreeing to be fed adverts for special offers and sponsored screensavers on the device. Available for $114 the 'Kindle with Special Offers' also includes 'AdMash' - an app and website where the online retailer hopes users will … [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...]
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...]
Apple has unveiled three new iPhone TV adverts in the US, each featuring one of the iPhone and iPad's three content stores - iTunes, iBooks and the App Store. The ads are built around the message that only the iPhone has access to these stores and end with the strapline "Yup, if you don't have an iPhone, well, you … [Read more...]
January ebook sales in the US rose by more than 115 percent compared to the same month last year according to the Association of American Publishers. The trade body says the value of sales increased to $69.9 million compared to $32.4 million in January 2010. Hardback sales fell by over $5m in the period to $49.1m … [Read more...]
