ebooks | ebooks
Mar.06.2010
Thanks to Elaine Cunningham, a fellow fantasy writer, I found Craig Mod's fascinating essay on why the printed book will become better with the advent of ebooks.
Mod argues, and I agree, that the ebook will replace the disposable book. The paperback that we buy once to read on the trip or at the...
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Feb.12.2010
On Friday, February 12, Patricia Rice joins the Book View Café team. With several million books in print and New York Times and USA Today’s bestseller lists under her belt, former CPA Patricia Rice is one of romance’s hottest authors. Her emotionally-charged contemporary and historical romances...
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Feb.10.2010
This morning the msn web site posted a story about Anne Rice releasing a new vampire novel as a video book. Hunh? What's a video book? I googled the word and the surprising thing I discovered is that there was very little information about the subject. I did find two sites that discussed the...
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Feb.03.2010
Where the law and literature meet:
After pulling Macmillan’s books, Amazon appears to have capitulated in e-book price battle: http://www.amazon.com/tag/kindle/forum/ref=cm_cd_tfp_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx1D7SY3BVSESG&cdThread=Tx2MEGQWTNGIMHV&displayType=tagsDetail and http...
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Jan.23.2010
My line about ebook readers has been "When the cost drops to $100 and I can check out books from the library for it, I'm sold."
So, wandering through a local electronics store after Christmas, I saw the floor model Pocket Reader on sale for $119. Sold! I justified the extra $20 bucks and...
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Jan.21.2010
Ebooks, ereaders, epublishers, eformats...egads! It's fascinating and exciting to read all the articles and comments regarding the changes and evolutionary trends in the publishing world. A similar transformation, I believe, took place in the music publishing arena during the 70's and 80's. At...
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Jan.18.2010
Self-publshing outfit lets writers generate content in any e-book formatBy Lynn Andriani -- Publishers Weekly, 1/18/2010 7:33:00 AM
Last week, self-publishing outfit FastPencil began offering writers the ability to publish e-books and release e-versions of individual book chapters. Previously, most...
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Jan.15.2010
Okay, I get the whole e-book thing now. (I own an eBookwise 1150.) It's convenient. It's small and fairly lightweight. It fits easily and comfortably in the hand and there's no need to raise the arms to turn the pages, a button does all the work. It takes up about the same space as a paperback and...
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Jan.11.2010
There's a quiet hush over the house. Work is finished for the day, although I'll be back at it soon. In the meantime, I'm going to take a shower, get dressed and run some errands. I need the exercise and there are things I need to do.
I've been enjoying the 1150 and finished Hogfather and began...
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Dec.31.2009
I'm increasingly leaning toward getting an e-book reader and have checked out several types and platforms. The eBookwise 1150 is still the top contender, but I'm being drawn to the dark side and considering the Kindle. I said it was the dark side.
While investigating the Kindle a little more I...
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