A Goodreads Spoiled: All Your Books Are Belong To Amazon
The Amazon acquisition of Goodreads will most likely be bad for the social book-discussion site and bad for readers… but very, very good for Amazon.
Latest: Why Microsoft Might Spend $1B On Nook: E-Books Could Solve Its App Problem
Focusing consumer attention on e-books via an acquisition of the Nook digital library could be a good way for Microsoft to buy time while it straightens out its app problem.
Want To Self-Publish A Book? Guy Kawasaki Wants To Help
Self-publishing is easier and more democratic, and authors have more freedom and earn more money per book. But selling those books is much harder without the backing of a traditional publisher.
Why Microsoft Is Tying B&N’s Nook To Windows, Office And Bing
A new job posting from Barnes & Noble indicates that the Nook e-reader will be tied into the Microsoft platform, including Windows, Office and the company’s Bing search engine. It’s an indication that e-books mean more than just another item to sell; they’re now a broader part of the content ecosystem.
Why Book Highlights Are Anti-Social
Continuing our Social Books series, today I’m looking at book highlights. The increasing popularity of e-readers, in particular the Kindle, has made it common practice to highlight passages and quotes within books. There have been various efforts to make those highlights social and today I’ll look at the two leading services. One is from Amazon…
Amazon’s Renaissance Of Reading
“The only thing more perfect than reading is more reading,” declared Amazon in a TV advert for its new Kindle eReader device. At a self-hosted event in Santa Monica today, Amazon launched new versions of its eReader and tablet products. Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos spent over an hour on stage, extolling the virtues of the new hardware. But perhaps…
Your E-Reader’s New Best Friend: StoryBundle
Ebook fans in need of new reads have a new friend in StoryBundle.
DoJ Whacks “Self-Serving” Apple in Response to E-Book Settlement Comments
Despite criticism of its actions from high-profile political figures, the Department of Justice is standing firm on its settlement with three publishers in the DoJ’s lawsuit against Apple and five publishers accusing them of conspiring against common enemy Amazon.
Why Senator Schumer Wants the Apple E-Book Pricing Lawsuit to Disappear
Charles Schumer is not pleased. The Democratic senator from New York wrote an impassioned op-ed in the Wall Street Journal earlier this week decrying the U.S. government’s antitrust lawsuit against Apple, which accuses the company of colluding with publishers to raise the prices of e-books. But wait: Wouldn’t cheaper books be good for consumers…
Can a Robot Have a Soul? Tech Theorist Kevin Kelly’s First Graphic Novel
Kevin Kelly, the brilliant technology theorist and author of the seminal books “What Technology Wants” and “Out of Control,” has created his first graphic novel: “The Silver Cord” – and made it available as a free download. It takes the title of Ray Kurzweil’s bestseller “The Age of Spiritual Machines” at face value and asks, what will happen…