Hundreds of Rare Music Manuscripts Now Available for Free Online 14 March 2016 by Michael Kozlowski 0 Comments Over 500 rare music manuscripts have been digitized and are now available for free online. The Morgan Library’s Music Manuscripts Online initiative houses handwritten sheet music from Mozart, Bach, Chopin and other luminaries. Morgan has also acknowledged that they have plans to add essays about the manuscripts by leading scholars. The Morgan library houses the entire … [Read more...] about Hundreds of Rare Music Manuscripts Now Available for Free Online
How Do You Monitor Your e-Reading Progress? 14 March 2016 by Michael Kozlowski 2 Comments Amazon, Barnes and Noble and Kobo offer different ways to monitor the progress in your favorite eBook. Some rely on the overall percentage left in a specific chapter, while others display a total reading time. Good e-Reader looked into the most popular ways people like to monitor their own reading progress and would like to give you a sense of our data. 829 eBook readers … [Read more...] about How Do You Monitor Your e-Reading Progress?
Why do kids prefer to read print and not ebooks? 14 March 2016 by Michael Kozlowski 1 Comment Nearly two-thirds of children will always want to read print books even though there are ebooks available. Literacy advocate and teacher Donna Rasmussen thinks this is because “We are tactile creatures. We will judge books by their covers and that’s okay,” she said. “We do many creative things with books we can’t with digital, like building a poetry out of book … [Read more...] about Why do kids prefer to read print and not ebooks?
The US Publishing Industry Really Wants to Sell Books in Cuba 13 March 2016 by Michael Kozlowski 3 Comments The entire US publishing industry is salivating at the opportunity to get their books sold in Cuba They are doing it with good reason, Cuba is one of the few countries in the world that has a 100% literacy rate. This is a market that is starting to see possible relaxed restrictions on imports due to the US government easing a longstanding embargo. Last month a 40 member … [Read more...] about The US Publishing Industry Really Wants to Sell Books in Cuba
Here is the Full Author Earnings Report from DBW 2016 13 March 2016 by Michael Kozlowski 5 Comments Author Earnings has been chronicling the rise of self-publishing on Amazon and is one of the definitive sources on how their sales directly affect the big 5 publishers. Data Guy has been quietly anonymous this entire time, he has been responsible for diving deep into big data and making sense of it for the entire publishing industry. He spoke publicly for the first time at … [Read more...] about Here is the Full Author Earnings Report from DBW 2016
A New 13.3 Inch e-Reader has been Revealed 13 March 2016 by Michael Kozlowski 17 Comments The e-reader industry is obsessed with six inch displays, which are often too small to read PDF files or have much of a screen area to consume e-books. There are thousands of users all over the world that are demanding a 13.3 inch screen, but there is only one commercially available product right now, the Sony Digital Paper. What if there was an e-reader that gave you a better … [Read more...] about A New 13.3 Inch e-Reader has been Revealed
Why is Amazon removing Thousands of Kindle eBooks? 12 March 2016 by Michael Kozlowski 3 Comments Amazon has begun a quiet campaign of removing Kindle e-books that have the table of contents at the end of the book, instead of the front. Amazon has a new algorithm that is automatically emailing authors and telling them they have five days to make the changes or the BUY button will disappear. In some cases authors aren't even getting the emails and their e-books have just … [Read more...] about Why is Amazon removing Thousands of Kindle eBooks?
Mass Market Edition of To Kill a Mockingbird will no longer be published 12 March 2016 by Michael Kozlowski 2 Comments The Estate of Harper Lee has decreed that the inexpensive mass market paperback of To Kill a Mockingbird will no longer be published. This edition was very popular with schools and libraries. According to the AV Club "The mass-market edition of Mockingbird—which currently features silhouetted cover art by Sarah Jane Coleman, but which is probably best remembered as the … [Read more...] about Mass Market Edition of To Kill a Mockingbird will no longer be published
Penguin Random House are getting behind Editions At Play e-books 11 March 2016 by Michael Kozlowski 0 Comments Google Editions At Play is a new digital book platform that showcase titles with interactive features and are not meant to be printed. The project launched in February with a pair of new titles: Entrances & Exits by Reif Larsen, and The Truth About Cats & Dogs by Sam Riviere and Joe Dunthorne. The first is essentially a point-and-click adventure game in Google Street … [Read more...] about Penguin Random House are getting behind Editions At Play e-books
Amazon Will Soon Be Selling Educational Course Materials 11 March 2016 by Michael Kozlowski 0 Comments Amazon is hoping to disrupt the educational market with their new Education Wait List program. The Seattle company is looking to sell course materials with a new website they are launching an are looking for schools and teachers to sign up. The message on the website says "Someday soon, educators everywhere will have free and unlimited access to first-class course materials … [Read more...] about Amazon Will Soon Be Selling Educational Course Materials
