They’re reporting that they saw 175% more revenue in November through January than they did in the previous 12 months combined. That’s over 10 times as much revenue when expanded to cover a year. Of course, we don’t know what it was before, so the wow factor is dependent on that older number. This shouldn’t [...]
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LibreDigital distributed more magazines in the last 3 months than they did the 12 months before
March 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
iBooks 1.2 now available in iTunes
December 15th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
Apple have released iBooks 1.2 for iOS. New abilities include improved image support, collections, hyphenation, and printing. That last is the one feature that makes me drool. If you’ve read this blog for any length of time then you know that I’m obsessed with exporting notes from e-readers. It’s good that Apple gave us this [...]
12% of college students bought ebooks in the last 3 months
November 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · surveys & polls
The NACS (National Association of College Stores) sent out a survey on 5 October to college students, and it received 627 replies. There are a number of interesting data points in the report. For example, 8% of respondents own an e-reader and 59% aren’t going to buy one in the next 6 months. Interesting. This [...]
Mark your calendars for the All About eBooks Symposium on 12 November
September 28th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
I just received the press release for a new ebook conference hosted by the San Francisco Writers University. It’s going to be held in San Francisco on the day before a writing conference (good timing, there). I wish I could go. The detail that caught my eye wasn’t the participants but the fact that they’re [...]
100k e-readers sold in the Netherlands in the last 12 months
September 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
Bol.com are about to celebrate the 1st anniversary of their ebookstore, and they are surprised at how fast it has grown. Ebooks now make up 5% of their total book sales. “We estimate in the last 12 months 100,000 e-readers were sold in the Netherlands. Compare that to the iPhone, which in the past three [...]
Morning Links 12 July 2010
July 12th, 2010 · No Comments · links post
Sorry about the delay, folks. I’m having ISP trouble and this got pushed to the side.
Morning Links 12 June 2010
June 12th, 2010 · No Comments · links post
12 months of learnings about ebooks in 40 minutes
April 20th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
Michael Tamblyn of Kobo Books just posted his presentation from BookNet Canada’s Technology Forum 2010. It’s about 40 minutes long, so you might want to bookmark it and come back. It’s also packed with info, so I wouldn’t try to listen to it while doing something else.
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