In 1936, in the movie Poppy, W.C. Fields tells his daughter, “If we should ever separate, my little plum, I want to give you just one bit of fatherly advice: Never give a sucker an even break!” It appears that Apple has adopted it as its motto for the 21st century, at least in regards to ebooks [...]
Entries Tagged as 'give'
You can now give Kobo ebooks as a gift
December 7th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
It looks like no one noticed that Kobo announced their ebook gifting yesterday. From the Kobo blog: Give the gift of eReading… Now you can easily share and give eBooks to your friends and family. This is a great way to send a personalized, thoughtful gift, while avoiding the holiday rush and the crazy mall [...]
Surrendering to Amazon: The “Strategic” Decisions That May Give Amazon the eBook Market
September 9th, 2010 · 9 Comments · opinion
In the world of eBookville, few decisions will stand out as more colossal blunders than two decisions, one made by Barnes & Noble, one by Sony, that may result in their giving the ebook market to Amazon on a silver platter. Oh, I know — both B&N and Sony are still operating ebookstores. But at least one of [...]
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Spectra SF Magazine to give away a Kindle at launch
August 20th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
This is going to be a digital only magazine. They’ll be holding a contest for the best 60 word story. You can submit your entry on their website. Winner will get the Kindle and everyone else will have given Spectra free content for their next issue. From the press release: Spectra Magazine launches on the [...]
Education platform Xplana.com now live – I give it a resounding “meh”
August 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments · software reviews
FYI: Meh is a relatively new word that expresses a level of indifference so acute that you can’t even be bothered to be snide. I first came across Xplana several months ago when I started following their blog. They are a subsidiary of MBS, a textbook distributor and tech services company in the education industry. [...]
Oh, the many ways you can give me your attention
August 8th, 2010 · No Comments · blog maintenance
I’ve just made a number of changes to the blog. While I hope they are improvements, let’s see what happens.
The radical library – give away books instead of lending them
August 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments · digital library
I came across a rather odd paper the other day. The author posed the following question: At what point would it make sense for a library to simply print and give away books instead of maintaining a collection? It’s actually not as nutty as it sounds, and it might be true in some limited circumstances. [...]
Once again, B&N are giving away ebooks they don’t own
July 16th, 2010 · 6 Comments · press release
Barnes and Noble announced a new promotion today, and like the last one, B&N will be giving away public domain ebooks. From the press release: Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the world’s largest bookseller, today announced a new promotion offering book lovers a free and easy way to enjoy timeless classics and build their [...]
How to give ebooks away at a book fair
July 11th, 2010 · No Comments · publishing news
Ebooknewser posted an interesting article on Saturday about a promo card they got at a convention. It has a download code for an ebook. The post itself isn’t that interesting, but it’s the second one they’ve posted (the other was during BEA), and that is what caught my eye. See, once is happenstance, and twice [...]
Books-A-Million to give away one e-reader everyday in July
July 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news, press release
From the press release: In an effort to introduce more customers to digital reading, Books-A-Million, Inc. will give away one eReader each day during the month of July. Every customer who purchases an eBook at Booksamillion.com during the promotion will be automatically entered to win. There are actually 2 announcements here. The first is that [...]
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