This blog started five years ago today, a couple of weeks before Amazon launched the game-changing Kindle and a couple of months after the industry had placed its hopes for… Read more >
October 10, 2012 ebook formats, ePub, Kindle, kobo 0 Read more >
One of the challenges ebook publishers face is poor ebook production tools. The tools that are out there are usually aimed at techies. When Apple introduced iBooks Author earlier this year —… Read more >
[This article was originally published in the March 2012 issue of News on Bookselling, the magazine of the Australian Booksellers Association.] This year will mark the fifth anniversary of Amazon’s… Read more >
March 26, 2012 analysis, ebook formats, ePub, iPad, Kindle 3 Read more >
A couple of weeks ago, the publishing industry’s EPUB3 specification was finally signed off. This was the cue for device makers and e-reading app developers to build it into their next… Read more >
October 25, 2011 Amazon, ebook formats, ebook production, ePub, Kindle 18 Read more >
A big hole in the eReading landscape has just been filled with the launch of independent ebook reading app Bluefire. The free iPad and iPhone app will read ePub formatted… Read more >
October 11, 2010 Adobe, ebook formats, ebook readers, ebook stores, ePub 6 Read more >
Kindle boss Jeff Bezos told USA Today that he expects Kindle ebook unit sales to exceed paperback sales on Amazon within 9-12 months. Says Bezos about the speed of ebook… Read more >