New Zealand’s publishers can learn from Amazon’s advice to UK indie publishers — if you ever want to see the Kindle here, get digitising. Amazon executive Genevieve Kunst was addressing… Read more >
Barnes and Noble, the US’s largest book chain, has bought the Fictionwise ebook retailer in a US$15.7million deal. Fictionwise is one of the early ebook stores, having got started back… Read more >
Rumours started circulating a week or two ago that Amazon was planning to make its Kindle-formatted books available on Apple’s iPhone. Well, a week’s a long time and Amazon today… Read more >
March 5, 2009 bookselling, ebook formats, ebook readers, iphone, smartphones 2 Read more >
Roy Blount Junior is president of the US Authors Guild. He’s created quite a stir with a column he wrote last week. Downunder, the debate has been playing out over… Read more >
Here’s a very informative Q&A with Mark Coker, founder and CEO of the d-i-y (do-it-yourself) ebook publishing site Smashwords. Smashwords launched about a year ago as a way for self-publishing… Read more >
March 2, 2009 bookselling, business, ebook formats 1 Read more >
A couple of days ago, I previewed the Shortcovers ebook service from Canadian bookseller Indigo. The service is now live and worth taking a look at. I checked Shortcovers out… Read more >
February 28, 2009 bookselling, ebook readers, iphone, news 1 Read more >
The announcement of a major push into ebook selling by Canadian book chain Indigo might carry a lesson for other international markets such as New Zealand. Indigo is about to… Read more >
February 25, 2009 bookselling, ebook readers, iphone, smartphones 4 Read more >
Jeff Bezos and the Amazon team continue their ebook crusade with the launch in New York today of the second generation Kindle ebook reader. It’s slimmer and better-looking than the… Read more >
A few ebooks are starting to appear in Apple’s iPhone App Store. They crept in quietly a few days ago when there were about 170 of them, mostly public domain… Read more >
September 4, 2008 bookselling, ebook readers, iphone 3 Read more >
If you’ve been involved in the business of selling books, you’ll really relate to this YouTube video clip. Enjoy!