Author: Chris Meadows

Chris Meadows, Editor of TeleRead, has been writing about e-books and mobile devices since 1999: first for ThemeStream, later for Jeff Kirvin's Writing on Your Palm, and then for TeleRead starting in 2006. He has also contributed a few articles to The Digital Reader along the way. Chris has bought e-books from Peanut Press/eReader, Fictionwise, Baen, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the Humble Bundle, and others. He is a strong believer in using Calibre to keep his library organized.

Aakash $35 Tablet Great News for India, But What About the Rest of the World?

21 September, 201210 May, 2017UncategorizedOne Comment

Techcrunch has gotten its hands on one of the long-awaited Aakash UbiSlate CI tablets, the famed “$35 tablet” that the Indian government plans to use to...

Amazon Tidbits: New Kindle Fire HD Trick; Apple Subpoenas DoJ Interviews

20 September, 201220 September, 2012Amazon, KindleLeave a comment

Here are a couple of unrelated Amazon stories, neither one of which really seems to merit a full post by itself. First, Betanews reports that it...

USA Today Seeks Digital Tomorrow

20 September, 20124 September, 2015Aggregators, NewspaperLeave a comment

As newspapers are more and more imperiled by Internet e-news, veteran CEO/journalist Alan D. Mutter has a fairly long piece on the potential demise or sweeping...

Entertainment Industry Executives Form New E-Publisher

19 September, 201221 October, 2014PublishingOne Comment

Entertainment moguls Scott Rudin (a film and theater producer) and Barry Diller (chairman of IAC/InterActiveCorp, former CEO of Paramount Pictures, Fox, etc., pictured at right) are...

Serials Can Be Challenging, For Writers and For Amazon – An Author’s View

19 September, 20125 May, 2017Amazon, content creation, Self-Pub3 Comments

As a writer who works in serial format myself (my co-writers and I just posted part 14 of a story in a science-fiction universe we’re creating...

Two Wikipedia Admins Caught in Paid PR Conflict of Interest

19 September, 20125 May, 2017Web PublishingOne Comment

For any website that gets as much traffic as Wikipedia, the temptation is great to use it for scurrilous purposes, such as search-engine optimization or even...

Harvard Business Review Makes Its E-Books DRM-Free…Sort Of

17 September, 201217 September, 2012DRM2 Comments

Techdirt has a fairly long piece on the Harvard Business Review Press deciding to go DRM-free for its e-books. In its on-line FAQ, the HBR notes...

Further Developments in Agency Pricing, Google Books Lawsuits

17 September, 20129 June, 2018Google, Google Books, Lawsuit, Price Fix Six, The Authors Guild2 Comments

PaidContent has updates on a couple of e-book-related lawsuit stories today. First, Judge Denise Cote has approved the $69 million everyone-but-Minnesota lawsuit settlement with Hachette, HarperCollins,...

Amazon Trumpets Amazon Publishing Half-Million-Selling Titles

15 September, 20125 May, 2017Amazon, Publishing, statisticsOne Comment

Ever notice how Amazon only shares sales figures when they make it look good, and doesn’t share any more than it has to? Laura Hazard Owen...

Dimeword Public-Domain Kickstarter Teaches Creator to Connect With Supporters

14 September, 201215 September, 2012content creation, Publishing2 Comments

Ross Pruden, the founder of the Dimeword kickstarter project to write a hundred 100-word stories I mentioned the other day, has posted a lengthy piece to...

Waterstones CEO Says Deal to Sell Kindles Avoids ‘Bear Traps’

13 September, 201213 May, 2017Bookstore, e-Reading Hardware, KindleLeave a comment

In the US, booksellers like Barnes & Noble consider Amazon to be The Great Satan. Look at how vehemently they have fought against the Department of...

Author Invites World to Watch Her Write Her New Novel via Google Docs

13 September, 20125 May, 2017content creation, Google, Self-Pub3 Comments

I learned about an interesting project on The Guardian the other day. Fantasy author Silvia Hartmann is writing her latest novel in Google Docs, the on-line...

New iPod Touch Looks Better for Reading Than Ever

12 September, 20125 May, 2017Apple8 Comments

About 90% of the press attention today is going to Apple’s new iPhones. And those are nice and all, but the more relevant gadget to e-book...

Unglue.it Finishes Ungluing Its First Book

12 September, 20125 May, 2017Creative Commons, Open Source, Publishing2 Comments

It’s not exactly a secret that I’ve been somewhat skeptical of Unglue.it’s selections and model for soliciting crowdfunding to unlock various e-book titles into free Creative...

PD Content Creation Kickstarter Technically Succeeds, But Maybe Not How It Was Meant To

12 September, 20125 May, 2017content creation, Publishing4 Comments

Here’s a cute little Kickstarter. Ross Pruden has launched a Kickstarter called “Dimeword” to fund one hundred 100-word short stories to be released into the public...