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Showing posts with label eBooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eBooks. Show all posts
16/03/2012

Authors responsible for high cost of books

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"In his forthcoming book [...] the American author Robert Levine has an excellent chapter on publishing in which he interrogates the fo...
30/12/2011

A Digital Book is never finished

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"Once digitized, a page of words loses its fixity. It can change every time it's refreshed on a screen. A book page turns into some...
17/10/2011

How do you discover ebooks?

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Survey from: http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/how-ebook-buyers-discover-ebooks/
05/10/2011

Watching and listening to books

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From embedded video, to sound effects, the future of the book has less and less to do with reading: "[...] publishers are now producing...
02/10/2011

Platform vs Reputation

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Readers might not be aware of the crude reality faced by writers: To succeed in the publishing world, or even to score a chance at publishin...
27/08/2011

Enhancing ebooks

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"Enhanced books are truly amazing. It seems like everyday a new kind of enhancement is announced or shown off. Videos and images can be...
24/08/2011

E-book buyers expect discounts, buy more

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"UK e-book buyers are expecting digital titles to be discounted heavier than their counterparts across the Atlantic, a new survey has f...
20/03/2011

What do Pimps and Literary Agents have in common?

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According to this Nobel Prize recipient: "Agents have strong nerves and stamina. To them the term  'sensitive soul of an artist...
26/01/2011

Death of a Publisher

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Had a chat with my cousin who only just found out that my publisher went bankrupt and closed its doors last year. The cousin is concerned ab...
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29/09/2010

From 500 rejections to bestsellers

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"I'm just a guy trying to make a living. It took me 12 years and over 500 rejections before I was published, and once I landed my f...
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13/04/2010

The mind of a pirate

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"Just as naval piracy is something more complex than "robbing people using a ship" information piracy is not just simply thef...
11/02/2010

eBook revolution benefits readers AND writers

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Quill and Quire points out to the oncoming revolution that e-books are about to bring to what we read and write. With the growing onslaught...
09/02/2010

eBook revolution fails foreign writers

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All this talk about the Internet being a great democratizer of ideas, access, and reach proves meaningless for writers who create in languag...
08/02/2010

Why proprietary e-Readers must die

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The British Library will offer tens of thousands of public domain books for download. You can read them too... if you have a Kindle. MORE th...
07/02/2010

e-Reader owners like their gizmos

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Market research survey results: E-Reader satisfaction is high among owners, according to a new report e-Reader Owners: Attitudes and Usage f...
25/01/2010

Good movie adaptation

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I read Babylon Revisited, by F. S. Fitzgerald. This autobiographical (alcoholism, Paris) short story was later turned into a movie The Last ...
24/01/2010

R.I.P. hardcover books?

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Ever since I started reading eBooks, I can no longer handle the hardback "traditional" book. Not just beca...

Do eReaders have a future?

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“For all the Kindle’s success, it remains in many ways a niche product, aimed at consumers who fit a certain narrow profile, namely avid rea...
15/01/2010

Publish your book in minutes

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Expresso Book Machine (EBM) is a combination of a photocopier, a printing press and a vending machine. It prints and binds books while you w...
09/01/2010

The Best eBook eReader

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We hear a lot lately about electronic products developed with only one purpose: to read eBooks. Blogs and Newspapers outdo each other in pre...
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