Although I’ve been aware of e-books and have followed the trials and tribulations of the industry in figuring out how to negotiate this new technology, I hadn’t had direct experience with device-based e-reading until this week.
BISG Releases E-Book Survey: But Are They Asking the Right People?
The Book Industry Study Group in the US has just released the first of three parts of a Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading study and while the initial results are intriguing, my sense is that the qualification they used for survey respondents is skewing results to make it look like more people are buying or are interested in buying e-books than might actually be true.
Bookselling Innovation That Will Save the Industry
EBooks, eReaders and eBooksellers are all the rage in publishing reporting. Amazon announces that Christmas Day 2009 was the first Christmas where eBooks outsold their print counterparts. Kobo announces a new global strategy.
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Noah Genner 2009 in Review: Breathe
As many have already stated 2009 was a year full of change and innovation in the book authoring, publishing and retailing world. Digital was/is the agent of change…eBooks, eReaders (of all kinds), digital workflows and networks (be they social or internet)…for the industry in 2009. It really seemed that many digital areas that had been bubbling under for the last while came to a head in 2009…all at once.
BNC CEO Noah Genner To Speak at First Ever Digital Book World
Hugh McGuire Year in Review: E-books Have Arrived
Please Don't Disrupt: I'm Reading
It seems like the proliferation of tablets, ereaders and smartphones at CES this year has been a great incentive for everyone writing blogs. It is amazing to read all of the comments and predictions made about the publishing industry and reading with each new launch or promise of a device that will be the killer app for literature. Sound familiar to walkman land pre-ipod?
Nook + Kindle = Alex
CES 2010 is on and the gadgets will be flowing all week. I’m sure this won’t be the only eReader discussed this week, but Engadget has a gallery and short walkthrough of the Nook/B&N suing Alex by Spring Designs.
Google Has Yet to Convince Me to Give Up My iPhone
For the most hyped device release this side of the mythical Apple Tablet, the birth of the Nexus One has left me uninspired. I tried to get hyped: before 9:00 am this morning, I’d already heard/read about the potential game-changing mobile device from three separate media outlets. Of course, two of those stories were delivered via my iPhone…which seems to undercut the Nexus One’s very raison d’etre.
