ebooks

What are the Most Popular Digital Ebook File Formats?

by Peter on November 25, 2011

If you are like me and still do your eBook hunting and buying across different websites and in different digital formats due to the availability of certain titles. Contrary to popular belief, Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble surprisingly don’t have every title in existence, you might be shocked that your eBooks don’t just come in [...]

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Barnes & Noble Up for Sale: Have eBooks Claimed Their First Victim?

by DorothyD on August 5, 2010

We all know that digital book sales are on the rise. Even I, a true lover of traditional paper books, listen to audiobook downloads and read digital content. The convenience and cost of eBooks is so tempting… I can’t help but wonder if the rise of the eBook will mean the fall of a bookselling [...]

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eBook Sales Exceed Hardcover Books!

by DorothyD on July 21, 2010

Amazon announced this week that for the first time, there eBook sales have exceeded hardcovers. It is important to note that in May Amazon split the bestseller lists into the “Top Paid” and “Top Free” books because claiming free books as “bestsellers” was being called inaccurate (by me and many others). The current figures are based on [...]

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Books are not dead! Stop Telling Me That they are!

by DorothyD on July 6, 2010

I keep receiving emails telling me that books are dying. Books are dead. Books are obsolete. The end is near for books. You know what I say? Shut up. That’s right, I said, “Shut up”. I know that eBooks and eReaders are all the rage now, but this does not mean that every form of [...]

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Google Editions

by DorothyD on May 7, 2010

Google will be launching its eBook store within the next two months. With Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the new Apple iBookstore, will Google be able to compete? Will audiobooks be a consideration? The Kindle, Nook, and iPad eBooks can be downloaded directly to a device. Books purchased through Google Editions will need web delivery and device upload and [...]

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Audio Book News: iBookstore, iPad, Kindle, 100 Stories for Haiti

by DorothyD on April 8, 2010

You can’t seem to escape iPad news on the Internet. They’re everywhere! Reviews, videos of features, and even videos of iPads being smashed! Apple sold 300,000 iPads on the first day! iBookstore App I’ve entered several contests and still haven’t won one, of course. I would truly love to try one out… especially with the iBookstore app, [...]

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The iPad: Taking Book Technology One Step Further

by DorothyD on March 10, 2010

With every new technological innovation in book publishing, we seem to be moving further and further from traditional hardcover books. Print editions and audiobooks have spawned eBooks and Vooks with embedded video content. Apple announced it’s iPad a short time ago with the knowledge that it is not an eBook reader or a netbook. It [...]

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