Geographical restrictions tightening – eReader refusing to download
The ugly spectre of protectionism continues to haunt us. A correspondent sent me the following:
Just a quick note to say that the technical measures to enforce the geographical restrictions are...
Amazon’s price war with Walmart
Amazon's Price War with Walmart: It's All About the Kindle, But It Could Render the Organizational Structure Of the Book Business...
Library Use of E-Books: 2008-2009 Edition published
This annual report has just been updated and published. You can find the a book review of it in PDF format here.
One of the most interesting findings of the report...
Catch-22 to be published as ebook
That's what Jane Friedman's new publishing company, Open Road Integrated Media, announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The new company will be using "every bit of technology" to market ebooks...
Charles Stross on the Amazon Kindle: ‘Jeff Bezos Eats Kittens’
Charles Stross, among the best science fiction authors today, has released a number of his books in non-DRMed e-book form. On his blog he has a great post about why he...
Midlist author can do well without print contracts – says author Joe Konrath
Joe Konrath is a published author and on his blog A Newbie's Guide to Publishing, he discusses his royalties from ebooks. He says that he has gotten "quite a shock"...
Free download of Frankfurt Show Daily, October 14
Publishing Perspectives is offering a free PDF version of its Frankfurt Edition for October 14. It includes photos from the opening ceremony with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vice President...
New book stats – Women spend 70% more time than men browsing books online
The following is being announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair today by LibreDigital:
Women are spending nearly 70 percent more time browsing books online than men.
The most popular genre of books browsed...
Book buying habits: Britain vs US
A new survey by BML and Bowker looks at this data. According to them 57% of British consumer bought a book last year, but only 50% of Americans did. ...
Top 20 List of World’s Largest Publishing Co’s – an analysis
Editor's Note: Here's a contribution by digital publishing and eBook strategist Ted Treanor. His website is here and you can follow him on Twitter. Unfortunately the chart he refers...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
