Oh yes it will! Let me get the basic objections out of the way: 1) eInk devices are cheaper 2) eInk devices are lighter 3) eInk devices can be read...Continue reading
Author: Mike Cane
Amazon Locks Up James Bond For A Decade
That image from Casino Royale illustrates what Amazon has just done: Gone all-in on book publishing. Amazon Publishing to Publish James Bond Backlist Amazon.com, Inc. and Ian Fleming Publications Ltd...Continue reading
Amazon Is Not All Of eBooks
Everyone fearing Amazon dominating eBooks again or being the “only” seller of eBooks needs the following reminders: 1) The population of iOS devices is a multiple of all eInk devices...Continue reading
Sony’s Death Spiral
Sony to axe 10,000 jobs in turnaround bid: Nikkei Japan’s Sony Corp is cutting 10,000 jobs, about 6 percent of its global workforce, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday, as...Continue reading
Indie Print Bookstores: You’re All Gonna Die
Google Killing the eBookstore Reseller Program So it looks like Google didn’t see the growth they wanted in the reseller program they launched with the Google eBookstore back in 2010;...Continue reading
Smaller iPad Coming. Duh.
Samsung may have let slip Apple’s iPad Mini plans Samsung may have accidentally spilled the beans on Apple’s plans to sell a smaller iPad. By the end of the year,...Continue reading
Don’t Believe The eBook Anti-Anti-Trust Spin
Steve Jobs, Price Fixer? Publishers wanted competition among ereaders instead of a Kindle monopoly and worried that the subsidized price established artificially low prices. Boldfaced emphasis added by me. This...Continue reading
Authors Guild Favors Big Six eBook Price Cartel
Letter from Scott Turow: Grim News The Justice Department has been investigating whether those publishers colluded in adopting a new model, pioneered by Apple for its sale of iTunes and...Continue reading
All Your Books Are Belong To Pirate Translators
How Three Germans Are Cloning the Web Bamarang is the creation of Oliver, Marc, and Alexander Samwer, a trio of German brothers who have a wildly successful business model: Find...Continue reading
The Seven Words That Will Kill Books
The infographic posted over here has been popping up in my Twitterstream for a while but it’s only today that I finally looked at it. And here are the seven...Continue reading
The Hulu For Books That Never Was
It was just five years ago when both NBCUniversal and News Corp stopped complaining about YouTube and decided to actually do something about it. They formed what is today known...Continue reading
New Barnes & Noble Nook Coming In Spring
New York Times: The Bookstore’s Last Stand Barnes & Noble is trying to strike at Amazon with another device. At its labs in Silicon Valley last week, engineers were putting...Continue reading
Why Kobo Should Do ePub Author
This is a follow-up to: Now All eBook Eyes Turn To Kobo The short version is that it would be good for Kobo first and for everyone else second. 1)...Continue reading
Kindle Books: Free, Fast, And Out Of Control
That is not PhotoShopped or made up. I now own two thousand one-hundred and seventeen Kindle Books. And every single one of those is legit and free. You can amass...Continue reading
Amazon’s Kindle Price Punking
All you’ll hear is “$79 Kindle!” “$99 Kindle!” I believed it too. Jeff Bezos punked all of us. Here’s a key slide from the announcement: Source What’s missing in that...Continue reading