Group items tagged

Amazon started life as a book retailer, and as a book retailer they made books cheaper. Then they were pioneers in the e-book industry where they made books cheaper. Their recently announced plan to give readers free e-book copies of books they buy in physical form doesn't make books cheaper per se, but it does give readers greater value for their book-buying dollar. This is all great stuff. But not everyone agrees. Emily Gould complains that "When ebooks and pbooks are bundled, the ebooks are sold at a loss. That's authors', publishers' and, associatively, non-AMZN retailers' loss" and "frustrating we have to keep explaining that ebook production is not free. digital objects are not made by elves."

Excellent read from  book designer "I want to look at where printed books stand in respect to digital publishing, why we historically haven't read long-form text on screens and how the iPad is wedging itself in the middle of everything. In doing so I think we can find the line in the sand to define when content should be printed or digitized. This is a conversation for books-makers, web-heads, content-creators, authors and designers. For people who love beautifully made things. And for the storytellers who are willing to take risks and want to consider the most appropriate shape and media for their yarns."

Speaking of reading an e-book, our text book for this class is apparently on Google Book Search. Maybe some of you knew that already, but I sure didn't! I like that this page also gives a list of other similar books.

And an astonishing 91 per cent of the 20,000 people polled in the survey said they would now not bother to buy printed books if they could find a digital version.

I use my Kindle / iPad for all of my reading. Once I began using them, a strong preference for reading on them developed.

Public-domain books from before 1923 digitized for Google Book Search will be available for free to Sony Reader users

"Yet as new old books become available - listed, for instance, on Manybooks.net - you get the puzzling sense that books are leaping almost randomly from their shelves into the digital realm. " Is there any logic to the way books are chosen for digitizing?

Google plans to begin selling digital books in late June or July, aiming to let users access books from a broad range of sites using multiple devices." />

Google's plan to add millions of books to digital library riding on new settlement

So what does the future hold for digital reading? On Monday, Forrester Research analysts Sarah Rotman Epps and James L. McQuivey posted some interesting predictions for the booming e-reader market in 2010.

The digital age may end the free advertising that publishers got from readers of their books in printed form.

This post is explaining to you about the importance of eBook Conversion Services. You need to move with the techno world and these services will help you in converting your books into digital books.

Amazon.com Inc. could sell $248 million worth of digital books in 2010, up 84% from $135 million in 2009, according to an estimate from Credit Suisse ...

While Google remains in legal limbo with its effort to put books online in the U.S., such digitizing is moving ahead in different places in Europe under several experimental programs." />

The Authors Guild filed suit against five universities and the digital tower, called HathiTrust, that those universities created to preserve and make available to students and faculty scans of books from their collections.

Popularity of eBooks has soared to unprecedented levels. Paper-bound books are getting replaced by numerous technologically enhanced e-reader devices like Kindle or Nook. Following digitalization of books and changing preference of readers, many book publishers have gone or are planning to go digital.

With its acquisition of ReCaptcha, Google will use "human computation" to help scan old library books.

Are textbooks history in the digital era? : States across the country are slashing education budgets, forcing schools to cut expenses. One option getting a lot of attention is digital textbooks. Stacey Vanek-Smith reports.

This article discusses how some major news organizations are participating in the "Digital Newsbook Publishing Project" which hopes to sell in-depth articles as digital books. This sounds very promising and reminds me a conversation we had in class about this very topic.