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 >
Martin Taylor
October 10, 2012
ebook formats, ePub, Kindle, koboAmazon, digital transformation, digital transition, ebook reader, future of publishing, idpf, KF8, Kindle, kobo
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[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 >
Martin Taylor
March 26, 2012
analysis, ebook formats, ePub, iPad, Kindle
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Australian readers will have few reasons not to join the ebook revolution this Christmas as a host of offerings come on stream. The past year has seen major strides in… Read more >
Martin Taylor
December 6, 2011
Amazon, bookselling, ebook readers, Google eBooks, Kindle, koboAustralian Booksellers, Australian ebook market, Booki.sh, Google eBookstore, ReadCloud
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Amazon’s loving its Kindle owners. The retail giant is letting Kindle owners who sign up for its US$79 Prime service borrow an ebook each month for no extra fee. Prime… Read more >
Martin Taylor
November 3, 2011
Amazon, ebook lending, Kindle, libraries, newsebook lending, kindle lending
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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 >
Martin Taylor
October 25, 2011
Amazon, ebook formats, ebook production, ePub, Kindleenhanced ebooks, epub, EPUB3, KF8, Kindle 8 Format, kindle format 8
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Amazon has announced its long-anticipated entry into the tablet market with the US$199 Kindle Fire, due to go on sale 15 November and US-only for now. While some were anticipating… Read more >
Martin Taylor
September 29, 2011
Amazon, android, app store, KindleAmazon Web Services, android, iPad, Kindle Fire, Kindle Keyboard, Kindle Touch, Silk web browser, tablet
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When Apple took its heavy-handed action against retailers last month, stopping them selling from within iPad and iPhone apps, those retailers were inevitably going to search for ways to avoid… Read more >
Martin Taylor
August 11, 2011
Amazon, app development, app store, Apple, iOS, iPad, Kindle
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When the mightiest online retailer in the world, Amazon, has to bow to Apple’s demands and cut ties to its ebookstore in the Kindle app, we know we’re facing a big… Read more >
Martin Taylor
July 27, 2011
app store, Apple, bookselling, business, iPad, iphone, Kindle, kobo, newshow to stop Apple
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I went to update the Kobo app on my iPad this morning but stopped when I saw what has changed. The main reason for the update is to cut access to the… Read more >
Martin Taylor
July 25, 2011
Apple, bookselling, Google eBooks, iOS, iPad, iphone, Kindle, kobo
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Publishers who want to produce their own Kindle-ready ebooks can now do it directly from within the Adobe InDesign page layout software using a free plug-in thatAmazon has just released…. Read more >
Martin Taylor
October 4, 2010
Amazon, ebook formats, ebook production, Kindle
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