E-Reader ownership is trending upwards in the United Kingdom. Over the course of the last year the number of people who owned a Kindle, Nook or Kobo has increased 28%, up 4% from the year prior. The United Kingdom has quickly become a market that everyone wants to have a stake in. This is because not only are device sales profitable, but so are the sales of e-books. A few … [Read more...] about e-Reader Ownership Increases in the United Kingdom
Archives for August 2015
e-Book Sales Fall 9.3% from January to July 2015
Our love affair with e-books is on the decline as sales have dramatically fallen 9.3% from January to July 2015. April was the worst month this year with e-book sales decreasing 51.6% year on year. The Association of American Publishers releases data every single month from 1,200 publishers. According to this organization e-book sales have been on the decline all year … [Read more...] about e-Book Sales Fall 9.3% from January to July 2015
How to use Calibre to Manage your eBook Collection
Calibre is one of the premier open sourced e-book editing and creation programs out there and it makes managing your e-reader or tablet very easy. You can convert books from one format to another, change up the cover art and change the author or book name. Today, I want to give you a simply overview on what this program is all about and how you can use it to edit books you … [Read more...] about How to use Calibre to Manage your eBook Collection
Self-Publishing is Completely Corrupt
Thousands of authors every year get in touch with me and ask me how they should go about getting their books published. I tell every single one that they should not take the easy way and self-publish, but instead try and get a book deal by a major publisher. I understand that many authors who write their first book do not do it as quickly as James Patterson or Stephen King. … [Read more...] about Self-Publishing is Completely Corrupt
Dune 50th Anniversary Edition Has Stunning Art
Frank Herbert's Dune celebrates its 50th Anniversary this year and the Folio Society has published a whopper of a Dune-lover’s edition, with its own slipcase and an introduction by critic Michael Dirda. The main selling point of this reprint are the hand painted illustrations by Sam Weber. Dune continues to top readers’ polls as the greatest science fiction novel of modern … [Read more...] about Dune 50th Anniversary Edition Has Stunning Art
Your Old Kindle can be made into a Fridge Messenger Board
Sometimes our old e-readers are relegated to spend the rest their lives in a closet or dusty drawer. If you have an old Kindle e-reader you do have another option, you can turn it into a virtual notepad for your fridge. A new hack has just been developed that disables the Kindle screen saver and allows you to update text via a Gmail address. All you need to get started is a … [Read more...] about Your Old Kindle can be made into a Fridge Messenger Board
The Washington Post Introduces Interactive Knowledge Maps
The Washington Post started testing a new “Knowledge Map” feature that is available online. It gives readers a sense of context around articles and stories by giving you background information. “We wanted to experiment with providing background information as a user reads a story to help bring context to a complicated topic, and we designed Knowledge Map to work in a way … [Read more...] about The Washington Post Introduces Interactive Knowledge Maps
Your eBook Might have a Virus called candy.js
If you have an e-reader issued by Amazon, Barnes and Noble or Kobo your reading habits are being tracked. These companies want to monitor what books you are buying and how long it takes you to get through them. When ebooks are sold on other platforms, publishers and authors are normally kept out of the loop, until now. A new tracking script is currently being implemented that … [Read more...] about Your eBook Might have a Virus called candy.js
BBC Radio Wants you to Pitch Stories on Twitter – Hilarity Ensues
Last week agents from Curtis Brown and Conville & Walsh received more than 2,000 pitches for books on the first inaugural #PitchCB day. Authors had to sum up their book in 140 characters or less and used Twitter. Due to the success of this event, BBC Radio 4 began soliciting pitches on Curtis Browns behalf and hilarity has ensued. A modern-day retelling of Jonah and the … [Read more...] about BBC Radio Wants you to Pitch Stories on Twitter – Hilarity Ensues
Japanese Readers Spend the Most Money on e-Books
Digital Books may have hit the proverbial glass ceiling in North America but across the world they are starting to really catch on. This is most evident in Japan, where readers are spending the most amount of money on e-Books. According to a new research report by Statista, Japanese readers have spent the most money on e-books per individual user, around $86.50. Following … [Read more...] about Japanese Readers Spend the Most Money on e-Books