My husband follows the maverick financial advisors Motley Fool (two brothers whose parents taught them about the stock market when they were teens), so I was interested this morning when they cropped up on Publisher’s Martplace‘s Publisher’s Lunch writing about the Kindle. I looked them up and found an article… Read more“Browsing the ereader aisle with the Motley Fool”
Category: Print Books & Ebooks
The on-going discussion of the pros and cons of print books and ebooks
Swinging between Amazon and Apple with the ebook publishers
You’ve got to give Jeff Bezos credit for cojones, if not business savvy. The guy still hasn’t learned to stay off the trapeze without a net. Motoko Rich of the NY Times and Christina Warren of Mashable both report this week that Amazon is back to swinging wildly from the… Read more“Swinging between Amazon and Apple with the ebook publishers”
Pricing ebooks for the reader, the writer, or the publisher?
Kathryn sent in this NPR piece by Lynn Neary on ebook pricing, which references this even more detailed and in-depth NY Times piece by Jason Epstein. I’ve been looking into ebook pricing. Kindle, of course, is racking up “best sellers” that turn out to sell for $.99 or even go… Read more“Pricing ebooks for the reader, the writer, or the publisher?”
Digitizing books, expanding your mind?
I should have asked you guys your opinions a long time ago. You have been really amazing about the whole book cover issue. I’m sorry—I’m a slow learner. I promise to do better in the future. So today I’m going to ask your opinions on a subject discussed intelligently and… Read more“Digitizing books, expanding your mind?”
Catching up with those illuminated manuscripts—I mean, ebooks
Check out this fascinating look at the evolution of publishing by O’Reilly’s VP of digital initiatives. Are ebooks the new quad type? And this Week in Review in the NY Times on the history of the relationship between reading and socializing. Didn’t they read Dickens out loud around the fire?… Read more“Catching up with those illuminated manuscripts—I mean, ebooks”
Making an omelet out of the news
MacMillan (including Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, St. Martin’s Press, and Henry Holt) is going head-to-head with Amazon over pricing, with the result that Apple’s sudden appearance with a more flexible price structure has tipped the scale. Although the “news” is that Amazon has pulled MacMillan books from its store, I’m… Read more“Making an omelet out of the news”
Breaking news
Pee-Wee Herman gets an iPad!
Making fun of Apple marketing
Oh, look! Something shiny! That’s my first reaction to the official Apple description of the iPad. My sys admin sent me links to about six in-depth computer industry articles on the much-touted Apple e-reader yesterday, which—since I am just a tiny bit OCD—I read all of. By the time I… Read more“Making fun of Apple marketing”
More surfing on the e-book wave
Well, the New York Times has an opinion on the Apple announcement of its e-reader, as well as a lament for the good, old-fashioned book in the Opinionator (you read mine here first!). He makes lots of good points and even singles out two of the indie bookstores we’ve been… Read more“More surfing on the e-book wave”
Catching up on publishing & bookstore news
Well, Amazon is coming out of the chute swinging this week. The good news is that they’re acknowledging the competition by fighting for independently-publishing authors with their 70%-royalty offer for Kindle books. For the record, 70% is a seriously high royalty rate. Just a year ago, Publishing Frontier ran an… Read more“Catching up on publishing & bookstore news”