Classrooms all over the world can now replace their textbooks with digital versions on an iPad.  Apple today announced that they added iBooks textbooks in iBooks 2 for iPad. [Read more…]

Wait a minute.  Wasn’t 2011 the year for self-publishing ebooks?  It’s true that authors chose to bypass the book publishers in amazing numbers last year, but some very significant things have happened since then. [Read more…]

Self-published authors did extremely well with Amazon’s Kindle Owners’ Lending Library in December.  Amazon released some details today on how their Kindle Direct Publishing Select program performed last month. [Read more…]

Wow.  That was fast!  The list of ebooks in Amazon’s Kindle Owners’ Lending Library now includes over 75,000 titles.  There are more than a hundred current and former New York Times Bestsellers in the list as well. [Read more…]

Libraries are bringing a knife to a fight where book publishers, Apple, and Amazon are all bringing guns.  The only way libraries are going to stand a chance is if they combine their budgets and start working as a single entity when buying ebooks. [Read more…]