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В буридер iriver Story HD ($140 в США) будет устанавливаться программа для доступа к Google eBooks (подключение к сети через WiFi). Это, конечно, не альтернатива Kindle. Но решение Google не сбрасывать со счетов букридеры оч. правильное.
Для России, конечно, не акутально, поскольку Google eBooks здесь работает весьма ограничено, но интересная тенденция.
Kindle It lets you send articles you find on the web to your Kindle or other e-reader for easy reading. It is being developed as part of the Five Filters project to promote independent, non-corporate media.
Extensions Our browser extensions allow you to send web articles you encounter to your Kindle with very little fuss.
Chrome extension Firefox extension Android app If you’re not using one of the browsers above, you can use our bookmarklet.
JK Rowling has revealed that she will release the long-awaited e-books of her mind-bogglingly popular fantasy series through her own ecommerce store and interactive online experience, Pottermore.
Crucially, Rowling will sell the e-books through a proprietary platform, she revealed at a press conference this morning in the Victoria & Albert museum in London. Because of a shrewd arrangement with her publishers Bloomsbury and Scholastic (or possibly just a short-sighted one on the publishers’ side), Rowling retains the digital rights to the seven Harry Potter novels.
The Internet is the world’s largest copy machine,” Kelly said. How do you create anything of value when it can be copied so easily? In this new ecosystem, things become valuable if they can’t be copied easily, and if they’re easy to pay for. We are willing to pay for personalization (having music tailored to the acoustics of your living room), findability (amazon is more useful than a zipped file of every piece of music ever recorded in the world), and embodiment (concerts as opposed to albums).
“We now sell three times as many digital books as all formats of physical books combined on BN.com,” Lynch reported. (Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is also selling more e-books than print books, but neither company has released actual sales numbers.) He also said that “PubIt!, our self-publishing digital platform, is the fastest growing part of our digital catalog in units and volume sales. We had our first PubIt! title reach #1 sales rank on our Nook Bookstore recently.
John Locke has become the first self-published author to sell more than one million e-books through Amazon.
The author used Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform to publish and sell his titles. He joins Stieg Larsson, James Patterson, Nora Roberts, Charlaine Harris, Lee Child, Suzanne Collins and Michael Connelly in what Amazon dub the Kindle Million Club.
Locke said: “Kindle Direct Publishing has provided an opportunity for independent authors to compete on a level playing field with the giants of the book selling industry.
МОСКВА, 17 июня 2011 г. Всероссийский центр изучения общественного мнения (ВЦИОМ) представляет данные о том, сколько книг в домашней библиотеке среднестатистического россиянина, сколько книг в среднем прочитали наши сограждане за последние месяцы, где берут книги, чтобы почитать, и насколько популярны такие виды книг, как электронные и аудио-, в сравнении с традиционными бумажными.
У большинства россиян в домашней библиотеке - менее 100 книг, причем с каждым годом таких респондентов становится все больше (с 28% в 1990 году до 49% в текущем).
Klebanoff, who founded New York-based digital publisher Rosetta Books in 2001, met UK-based agents last week and addressed a meeting of about 65 agents organised by the Association of Authors Agents on Monday.
Klebanoff is looking for backlist titles where digital rights are unassigned, with a view to acquiring both world rights or US rights alone. He said Rosetta was offering a royalty more than double that on offer from large print publishers—a 50% net royalty payment for up to 2,500 copies sold and then 60% after.
The Japanese eBook industry is crowded and awash with activity but is making no progress. In a recent edition of the eBook Journal, Yashio Uemura of Tokyo Denki University laments that the current eBook boom in Japan is in reality a boom in eBook seminars.
This sense of frustration within the industry may seem at odds with annual revenues, as reported by Impress R&D, of $600 million and growth in excess of 20% per year.
