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…]
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2012 is the year for self-publishing ebooks
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…]
Over 295k ebooks borrowed from Kindle Owners’ Lending Library in December
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…]
Amazon has over 75,000 ebooks in Kindle Owners’ Lending Library
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 need to unite in battle for ebooks
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…]