Think that Amazon’s parcel pickup lockers might represent a threat to brick-and-mortar bookstores, if the company ever gets around to putting enough of them in? Well, in the UK, Amazon...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.
Bundling Could Be Weakness in Digital Magazines
On Silicon Valley news and opinion site Pando Daily, Hamish McKenzie makes an interesting observation about magazines and their attempts to jump to electronic versions. McKenzie sees their problems as...Continue reading
Academics, Librarians, and the EFF Get Permission to File Briefs in Google Books Case
More interesting news to come out of the Google Books case. Publishers Weekly and paidContent report that Judge Denny Chin has granted permission for several academic and librarian groups and...Continue reading
Of Fanfic, Fair Use, and the Harry Potter Lexicon
As I’ve pointed out elsewhere, Internet-posted fanfiction from the ‘90s comprised some of the original on-line “e-books”. And it’s still insanely popular today, even occasionally spawning professionally-published books that go...Continue reading
Apple, Publishers, Authors Guild File Briefs Opposing DoJ Agency Pricing Settlement
The three-ring circus continues. Apple, the two non-settling publishers, and the Authors Guild have filed legal briefs in response to the Department of Justice’s proposed settlement with the three publishers...Continue reading
Diane Duane’s First Revised Young Wizards Book Now Available, DRM-Free
Two of the great enemies of any long-running series author are Zeerust and Comic Book Time. As elucidated by TVTropes, Zeerust refers to technological references that are rendered quaint and...Continue reading
NPR Top 100 Young Adult Books List Incites Controversy
Why does anyone even do top 100 books lists anymore? The only thing they’re really good for is inciting controversy, because no matter what books you pick, someone will nitpick...Continue reading
Judge Clarifies Georgia State Fair Use Lawsuit: GSU is the Winner
Here’s some more news about the Georgia State University lawsuit over copyright infringement in digital academic course packets. The judge has issued her ruling (PDF) on the remedy she would...Continue reading
Hachette UK Wants Authors to Ask Tor For DRM Back
In case you thought that Tor’s enlightened stance on DRM might be a sign that the ice might be starting to melt around the Big Six publishers, think again. Today...Continue reading
Amazing Stories Celebrates E-Zine Relaunch By Offering Free Issue
Amazing Stories magazine, the oldest SF magazine in the world, stopped publishing in 2005. However, it’s coming back in 2012, and in order to build some publicity, as well as...Continue reading
Royalty Share CEO Bob Kohn Wants Department of Justice to Cough Up Details on Amazon’s Predatory Pricing
The Department of Justice doesn’t seem to like Royalty Share CEO and attorney Bob Kohn very much. It went out of its way not merely to respond to his comments...Continue reading
Smashwords Announces Library Direct eBook Lending Program
Smashwords recently announced it is launching a new program called Library Direct to make Smashwords titles available through various library systems. It is making available bundles of particular ranked titles,...Continue reading
Angry Robot E-Book Bundling Plan Triples Its Print Sales at a UK Bookstore
FutureBook yesterday featured a piece on an experiment in the UK between Osprey publishing imprint Angry Robot and independent bookshop Mostly Books to bundle a free electronic edition of an...Continue reading
Amazon Unglues Unglue.it From Its Payment Processing Services
This morning as I was getting ready for work, a letter popped into my email from Eric Hellman at Unglue.it, the crowdfunding site operating on a Storytellers-Bowl-style model in which...Continue reading
Singularity & Co. Rescues Classic SF … for Its Subscribers
I saw a post on BoingBoing the other day spotlighting Singularity & Co., an online “science fiction bookstore” (who I covered in March for TeleRead) with a goal of rescuing...Continue reading