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 is indeed possible to...Continue reading
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.
USA Today Seeks Digital Tomorrow
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 change lying in store...Continue reading
Entertainment Industry Executives Form New E-Publisher
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 getting together with publishing...Continue reading
Serials Can Be Challenging, For Writers and For Amazon – An Author’s View
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 to a free on-line...Continue reading
Two Wikipedia Admins Caught in Paid PR Conflict of Interest
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 simply plugging things for...Continue reading
Harvard Business Review Makes Its E-Books DRM-Free…Sort Of
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 that it “[trusts its]...Continue reading
Further Developments in Agency Pricing, Google Books Lawsuits
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, and Simon & Schuster....Continue reading
Amazon Trumpets Amazon Publishing Half-Million-Selling Titles
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 on PaidContent has gotten...Continue reading
Dimeword Public-Domain Kickstarter Teaches Creator to Connect With Supporters
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 Techdirt going over ten...Continue reading
Waterstones CEO Says Deal to Sell Kindles Avoids ‘Bear Traps’
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 Justice’s settlement that would...Continue reading
Author Invites World to Watch Her Write Her New Novel via Google Docs
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 collaborative word processor—and inviting...Continue reading
New iPod Touch Looks Better for Reading Than Ever
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 readers is actually the...Continue reading
Unglue.it Finishes Ungluing Its First Book
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 Commons release. Most of...Continue reading
PD Content Creation Kickstarter Technically Succeeds, But Maybe Not How It Was Meant To
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 domain. Everyone who donates...Continue reading
Georgia State Fair Use Lawsuit Plaintiffs File Appeal
Well, this isn’t a surprise. The coalition of publishers who sued Georgia State University over copyright violations committed in online course packs and had most of the suit resoundingly overturned...Continue reading