Can You Own an E-Book?
When you buy a paper copy of Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone at the bookstore or online, it’s yours. Except for copyright limitations, you’re free to keep it, loan it, sell it, burn it, tear out...
View ArticleFire Sale: 5 Ways Amazon’s New Tablet Will Impact Authors
Amazon is expected to announce a new product tomorrow: the Kindle “Fire”. The Fire is an iPad-like tablet computer predicted to sport a 7″ backlit LCD/LED screen (not e-ink), the Google Android...
View ArticleBetting the Farm on Self-Publishing
I read e-books of all kinds. And like I’ve mentioned, I’ve downloaded a lot of them. But the release of Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet this week (and the enthusiastic response of writers) made me stop and...
View ArticleSteve Jobs, 1955-2011
I don’t know what to say. Steve’s death is like a mile-wide crater in Silicon Valley, and hence the world. Most people won’t understand why that’s true, or just how much Jobs and Apple changed the...
View ArticleKobo Launches New Vox Tablet Ahead of Kindle Fire
Let the cheap, Android-based tablet wars continue. Kobo has announced the October 28th release of the Kobo Vox, a color touchscreen tablet. Kobo now offers three tablets, two of which are touchscreen....
View ArticleGoing Mobile
Number of Kindles Amazon claims sold in December 2011: “more than 1 million per week“. Number of iPads estimated sold in fourth quarter of 2011: 13.5 million. Number of iPads sold since its...
View ArticleiBooks, You Book, We All Book
Number of new-format interactive textbooks downloaded from Apple’s new iBooks in the first 72 hours: 350,000. Number of downloads of Apple’s new iBooks Author tool in the same period: 90,000. Folks,...
View ArticleApple Clarifies iBooks Author License Agreement in New Release
In a previous post, I mentioned how the license agreement for Apple’s free iBooks Author tool was wildly misinterpreted–by a broad swath of writers and technology pundits. I also explained what I felt...
View ArticleSteve Jobs: One Secret About Life
“When you grow up, you tend to get told the world is the way it is, and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family life,...
View ArticleKeeping Score
I’ve been reading (and participating in) discussion about the US DoJ’s recent antitrust suit against Apple and book publishers. In one particularly vocal crowd–mainly self-publishers like me–there’s an...
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