It appears that people are mourning the loss of physical objects like CDs, DVDs and now, books. All have progressed to the digital realm where price and convenience favor the consumer.
People our not only mourning, but some are resisting this move to digital. I’ve written many posts about all the superficial reasons why people cling to physical books as if they are some holy relic.
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One of the best part about ebooks is that you can download free samples before spending your hard-earned money on a book you might hate.
The problem is that sometimes it’s hard to judge just how well you’re going to like a book by only reading the first chapter. I’ve read many books where the first chapter was not very good. But the rest of the book turned out to be a real nail biter.
I’ve also had the opposite problem where the first chapter was great, but the rest of the novel petered out. Even the first few chapters might not be a good indicator. They say not to judge a book by its cover; I say don’t judge a book by the first chapter (or two).
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Barnes & Noble is encouraging customers to bring their non-Nook eReaders into their local B&N store to compare it to their popular Nook line of eReaders.
To sweeten the pot, if a customer does buy a Nook, that customer will receive a book collection of 30 ebooks, which B&N says is valued at $315. That’s roughly $10.50 per ebooks.
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A few days after JK Rowling’s new Pottermore website came to life and the announcement of the Harry Potter series being released in ebook format, got me thinking about the big shift that has taken place in Rowling’s thinking over the years.
She has gone from dismissing ebooks because of worries about piracy (even though the absence of ebooks actually increased piracy of her books), to releasing DRM-free versions of her ebooks. Not only that, but she is essentially self-publishing the Harry Potter series on her website (her publishers do share some of the revenue, however).
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The numbers are out for April 2011: Print book sales took a dive while digital book sales continued their climb upward. Anyone else not surprised?
The American Association of Publishers (AAP) released the figures for all of their member publishing houses, which include Penguin, Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster and many more.
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Note: I’ve been writing about the Harry Potter/Ebook saga for a while now. Check out my most popular Harry Potter post that has links to most of my other HP posts. Thanks for reading!
The announcement has finally arrived for all you Harry Potter fans out there: The popular 7 book series will be released in ebook format this October!
Speculation has been running rampant for the last several days with the mysterious Pottermore website. As it turns out, the website will be home to Harry Potter, the digital version.
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Nothing says relaxing like sitting on the beach with an eReader loaded with Elin Hilderbrand novels (for example). Ereaders were made for the beach.
Kobo is taking ereading to the warm water of the Caribbean. In a recent press release, they announced a partnership with a local bookseller Nigel R Khan:
I have said many times before that ebooks are opening the floodgates for independent (read: self-published) authors. Well the flood gates have really opened for indie author John Locke.
He has sold 1 million Kindle ebooks through Amazon’s self-publishing program, Kindle Direct Publishing. Locke joins an elite group of big name authors like Charlaine Harris, Stieg Larson, James Patterson and Nora Roberts, just to name a few, who have all sold over 1 million Kindle ebooks.
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Kobo added a nifty little feature to their Android eReading app: Showing you the nitty-gritty statistics of your reading habits.
The numbers give you everything from reading times, average number of pages read, pages per hour and a bunch of other stats.
Here’s the press release from Kobo’s website:
If there’s one thing JK Rowling is good at, it’s keeping her fans guessing about what she’s going to do next. With the new Harry Potter movie opening on July 15, the internet is gushing with new rumors.
The newest clue to more Harry Potter is the mysterious website Pottermore.com. According to Digital Spy, this could mean more Harry Potter for his legions of worldwide fans:
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