Following yesterday’s announcement by Amazon that the Kindle is going global from next week, there’s been a flurry of activity trying to sort out the details and implications of the… Read more >
October 9, 2009 bookselling, copyright, ebook readers, news 4 Read more >
Amazon’s Kindle is going global. From October 19, customers in 100 countries will be able to buy a Kindle, buy ebooks from the Kindle’s 200,000+ English language titles, and do… Read more >
October 8, 2009 analysis, bookselling, copyright, ebook readers, iphone, news 6 Read more >
New Zealand Booksellers chair Hamish Wright has taken a shot at Random House Australia for selling Dan Brown’s new book The Lost Symbol directly from its website to Australian and… Read more >
Google Books’ Engineering Director Dan Clancy gave a hint at the future Google sees for the digital book. On Clancy’s list: Books will be stored “in the cloud”, that is,… Read more >
Amazon’s move to pull copies of George Orwell’s 1984 novel without warning from Kindles has opened it up to attack from civil libertarians and others concerned about the Big Brother… Read more >
July 28, 2009 analysis, bookselling, business, ebook formats, news 1 Read more >
Following its purchase of Fictionwise and its eReader software earlier this year, US bookselling giant Barnes and Noble has launched some early fruits of this acquisition with what it claims… Read more >
The NZ$100 million upgrade to New Zealand’s National Library building has prompted debate about whether it’s money well spent. The latest contribution to this debate from the New Zealand Herald’s… Read more >
April 22, 2009 analysis, bookselling, business, ebook lending, libraries 18 Read more >
Take a look at this Teleread discussion. A reader has noticed that ebook retailer Fictionwise/Ereader.com, recently acquired by big US book retailer Barnes and Noble, appears to be tightening its… Read more >
When news broke in the DomPost this week that Dymocks in New Zealand had shelved its ebook plans, it looked like we were about to take a step backwards in… Read more >
I suppose I should add to the noise and write about Apple’s iPhone OS 3.0 release. But before I do, I should clarify: it’s not actually a new phone, it’s… Read more >
March 19, 2009 analysis, bookselling, ebook readers, iphone, news 0 Read more >