A new ebookstore launched last week in Australia, but I didn’t cover it. I kinda got distracted by Chris Walter’s commentary (and the ensuing debate) on browser based ebooks, and I forgot to write about the ebookstore itself. Readings Booksellers is an indie bookstore chain with 6 stores in and around Melbourne, Australia. The ebookstore [...]
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Australia’s first indie ebookstore has launched
January 24th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Tags:australias·ebookstore·indie·launches·spunc·um
Google Ebookstore to sell ebooks from the US Government Printing Office – Um, what?
December 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news, opinion
The GPO announced today that they will be partnering with Google to sell government documents through the Google eBookstore. The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and Google have entered a partnership to offer the public, for the first time, federal government titles in an e-book format. The titles will appear on Google’s recently launched Google [...]
Tags:ebooks·ebookstore·google·government·office·printing·sell·um
Rushkoff: “Most Books Sell More In Ebook Version Than Print” (Um, What?)
October 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
by Evil Wylie In an Arthur Mag column detailing his reasons for leaving his corporate publishing house, author Douglas Rushkoff claims that “most books sell more electronic versions than print ones anyway, and Amazon already sells more of most books than all real-world retailers combined.” Really?
UM Press to launch ebook rental program
August 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · digital textbooks
From the UMP blog: The University of Michigan Press announced today that it launched a new ebook rental program for more than 250 of its scholarly titles, allowing students or faculty to rent digital copies of the books at a discount for a month or six months. … Costs will range from 40% of list [...]
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