News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. There’s a lot of book news this week! Books & Ebooks in the News: Goodreads will start deleting content focused… Read more »
News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book- and publishing-related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, giveaways on this and other blogs, and other cool stuff. Books & Ebooks in the News: The 2013 Hugo Award winners were announced this week. John Scalzi (currently president of… Read more »
Books on the Knob, a blog about free and bargain ebooks, posted a warning a week or two ago to “Make sure you are doing backups…” of your ebooks. The blogger pointed out that you can’t count on retail ebook sellers or their cloud storage to keep your books accessible,… Read more »
Kobo has joined the big players in more ways than one. In addition to being (apparently) the third main competitor to Amazon in ebook sales (behind Barnes & Noble and Apple), Kobo will now offer a whole family of e-reader devices, according to a September 6 announcement.Kobo already had an… Read more »
The big news of the week is that Tor/Forge will drop DRM from its ebooks by early July. Tor UK plans to do to the same. (Tor/Forge is a subsidiary of MacMillan, which is still involved in the DOJ price-fixing lawsuit.) Eliminating DRM has been proposed as one way that… Read more »
PaidContent.org has posted a nice table comparing the features and capabilities of a number of tablets and e-readers from Amazon (various Kindles, including the Fire tablet), Barnes and Noble (various Nooks, including the Nook Tablet), Sony (the WiFi reader), and Kobo (Touch and the Vox tablet.) It’s a good place… Read more »
Free and bargain-priced e-books are a good way to try a new author, but what if you don’t have time to troll the various e-book retailers looking for the latest available freebies? Likewise, it can be time-consuming to check multiple retailers for the best price on a title you’re interested… Read more »
Apropos of my earlier posting about Cushing Academy’s bookless library and the dubious availability of children’s and YA books in e-book format, I decided to do some further checking. I chose to check Amazon’s Kindle store rather than the Sony e-book store, because there are more titles available overall for… Read more »
Apropos of my earlier post about e-books, I recommend Nicholson Baker’s “A New Page” in The New Yorker‘s Aug. 3, 2009, edition. The article discusses e-books, e-book devices in general, and Amazon’s Kindle in particular. Baker explores the history and marketing of e-paper and the Kindle as well as his… Read more »
I’ve been thinking a lot about e-books over the last six months: wondering when and whether I should give them a try, weighing their pros and cons. E-books do have some distinct advantages over bound books. They don’t use paper or ink, and the books themselves don’t take nearly as… Read more »
