Smashwords ebook publishing platform hooks deal with Barnes and Noble
If you’ve been “lucky” enough to hear one of my presentations recently, you’ll quite likely have heard me plugging Smashwords.com as a great way to dip a toe in the… Read more >
New Zealand gets its first 1000 ebooks, available now
While commercial publishers work on their project to bring 1000 Great New Zealand ebooks to market, the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre (NZETC) has been quietly working to convert its… Read more >
Sony announcements boost its Reader range, ePub and partner support
Sony has raised the ebook reader game a notch with a host of announcements covering new e-reader devices, further support for the open ePub format, and content partnerships. The new… Read more >
August 26, 2009 ebook formats, ebook readers, news 0 Read more >
NZ perspective on Google Books settlement – “cultural imperialism”
Outside the US, there’s been a slow dawning that the very complex, far-reaching Google Book settlement will have important implications for foreign rightsholders too. It will drag many into something… Read more >
Advice to non-US authors and publishers on Google Books settlement: Doing nothing is a bad move
A notice from the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) highlights a problem that will affect most non-US authors and publishers if the proposed Google Books Settlement is ratified by… Read more >
Google: Your books will be “in the cloud” and booksellers will still matter
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 Orwellian move opens attack on several fronts
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 >
EU puts further heat on Google’s book scanning deal
European regulators are asking publishers for feedback on how they see the proposed Google Books settlement. The move comes soon after the US Justice Department said it was investigating Google… Read more >
Barnes and Noble claims world’s largest eBookstore, announces Plastic Logic deal
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 dysfunctional internet … or why Barry Colman isn’t stupid
I was disappointed by the commentary that greeted this announcement by New Zealand’s National Business Review publisher Barry Colman to start (again) charging for some content. Comment ranged from the… Read more >