Aptara released their 3rd annual publishers survey this week and it offers a unique insight into the digital publishing industry. Key takeaways include: Amazon continue to dominate the market, but their market share shrinks as the ebook market gets bigger. 85% of publishers are releasing both digital and print editions of their titles, and over [...]
Entries from September 21st, 2011
Survey Shows 11% of Ebook Publishers Don’t Read Ebooks
September 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · statistics
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Daly Deal: iriver Story HD now $100 at Target
September 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments · Daily deals
Forget the Kindle news today; I’ve got abetter deal for you. Target are currently selling the iriver Story HD for $99. That’s $40 off the retail price, and given the features it is right around the price it should have been all along. This was a rather pretty but unremarkable e-reader when it debuted a [...]
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Library eBooks now Work on the HP TouchPad (via the Kindle App)
September 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments · library ebooks, TouchPad
I’m sure you caught the news this morning that Amazon and OverDrive have started rolling out Kindle library ebook support today. They’ve already enabled about 60 libraries from OverDrive’s 11 thousand partner libraries here in the US, and more are being added by the minute. There’s one bit of news that probably got buried in [...]
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Asus eeePad Slider now Available on Amazon
September 21st, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news
Asus’ latest experiment in new hardware designs is now shipping from Amazon. The eeePad Slider is a funky looking tablet hybrid that is based on a 10″ capacitive touchscreen. So far as I can tell, it appears to be using the same screen as Asus other tablet hybrid, the eeePad Transformer. It’s running the latest [...]
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The State of Digital Content in Spain
September 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news, video
Like so many other European countries, Spain still hasn’t seen the significant rise in ebook sales like we’ve experienced in the U.S. But due to the fact that the country has such a high percentage of mobile device owners and the bias towards print seems to be changing, it may not be long before ebooks [...]
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Updated: Library Ebooks now Available for the Kindle
September 21st, 2011 · 29 Comments · Amazon, Kindle, library ebooks, overdrive
Do you recall how last month a rumor went around that the Kindle was supposed to get library ebook support some time in September? Guess what: it wasn’t a rumor. It’s been just over 5 months since Amazon announced that the Kindle would get library ebooks, and it is just about to happen. Unfortunately for [...]
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Introducing the 23″ MegaPad Android tablet (video)
September 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news, video
Do you think that size really does matter? Have you ever wanted to get a tablet that will cut off circulation to your legs? If you’ve ever felt that the iPad was too small, I have just the thing for you. The following demo video was shot by Martin Drashkov. It shows his one of [...]
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Updated: Reading on the HP TouchPad
September 21st, 2011 · 7 Comments · tips and tricks
Last night I got into a discussion on Twitter about what I thought of the TouchPad. I had sparked the debate with a tweet saying that I wasn’t going to load Android on my TouchPad; it would defeat the purpose of having a webOS tablet. But I realized as I was tweeting that I hadn’t [...]
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First look at the Amazon.fr Kindle Store
September 20th, 2011 · 16 Comments · ebookstore news
Earlier today I showed you a couple of product pages for Kindle ebooks on Amazon.fr. Now I can show you something even better. Merrill Goussot, the editor of Le Journal du Kindle, sent me a screen shot (at right) and a link. Part of the Kindle Store is up and running right now. Well, it’s [...]
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Ebook Readers Buy More Books, Says New Harris Interactive Survey
September 20th, 2011 · 3 Comments · statistics
A new Harris Interactive survey published today finds surging interest in ebooks and rapid adoption of e-reading devices. Key findings include: E-reader usage is surging – 15% of Americans now use an e-reading device, up from 8% one year ago. One in six Americans who don’t yet own an e-reader plan to buy one in [...]
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