A Librarian down in Australia writes about eBooks and Libraries and while he thinks Libraries are at the forefront of the eBook revolution it’s worth taking a non-librarian view of two questions he asks – Do you think it means the end of bookshops and libraries as we know them? Will book people have to [...]
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It’s a rather interesting question to think about – Will there be 10,000 Kindle Apps when the store first launches? Will there be just 150? Let’s say there are 20 companies Amazon has given the early bird privilege to (including Electronic Arts and Sonic Boom). They make an average of 2.5 apps – That’s 50 [...]
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This is a question that comes up again and again when reading all the posts and articles by authors and publishers claiming that $9.99 is not a sustainable price and that $14.99 is the minimum price point to sustain books. At some basic level Publishers are not selling a product when they try to raise [...]
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First, the Kindle book deals – 1 cent preorder of Stopping Time, Part 1 by Melissa Marr. It’s a pre-order and it might just be a chapter. However, it might also be a novel or novella. Primary Victim by Christopher Cihlar is just $1 and reviewed well. It’s zooming up the charts. The Complete Adventures of Alice in Wonderland (with a [...]
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This post is just going to ask some questions around this issue. It’s madness to attempt to answer it straight – You have eReader owners believing that cellphones have no role to play. Perhaps rightly so since cellphones didn’t do squat for eBook sales or traction – it’s only with the advent of eReaders that we [...]
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