A record number of would-be authors are slated to participate in this year’s NaNoWriMo, or National Novel Writing Month, with an estimated 300,000 writers expected to sign up for the challenge. For those unfamiliar with the concept, NaNo—as it’s often called—is a writing challenge, an online community, and a full complement of social media commiserating rolled into … [Read more...] about NaNoWriMo Kicks Off, New Challenges for Authors Ahead
E-Book News
Angry Birds Cookbook eBook App Revealed
The entire Angry Birds saga has garnered over one billion downloads since it first launched. The company announced a week ago that it was going to show off its new ebook app at the Frankfurt Book Fair, and today Rovio did just that.The new ebook is called Bad Piggies’ Best Egg Recipes and offers many other enhancements not usually found your standard ebook. Peter … [Read more...] about Angry Birds Cookbook eBook App Revealed
Amazon Kindle Lending Library Hitting UK, Germany, and France this Month
Amazon has announced today that the Kindle Owners Lending Library is hitting the United Kingdom, Germany, and France later this month. With the pending launch of these new lending libraries, the KDP Select fund has been increased by $100,000 to $700,000 in October, with a larger increase anticipated in November.If you have an Amazon Prime membership, you have the ability to … [Read more...] about Amazon Kindle Lending Library Hitting UK, Germany, and France this Month
3M, ReadersFirst Work to Make a Seamless eLending Experience
3M, one of a handful of companies that is working diligently on the issues swirling around library ebook lending by providing ebook content to partner libraries, announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week that it is now aligned with the ReadersFirst movement to make the ebook lending experience suitable for all patrons.ReadersFirst, a movement within the global lending … [Read more...] about 3M, ReadersFirst Work to Make a Seamless eLending Experience
Amazon Author Rank Released and Tracks Hourly Author Sales
Ever wonder who is selling the most eBooks at any given time? Amazon has just released the BETA version of their Author Rank Page. It is updated every hour and gives people a chance to see what authors are selling the most books.This new project will help readers discover new authors and look at a dynamic list that gives you a sense on what is popular. This goes beyond the … [Read more...] about Amazon Author Rank Released and Tracks Hourly Author Sales
Oyster Wants to be the Netflix of eBooks and Raises 3 Million in Funding to Make it Happen
Oyster has noble ambitions of being the Netflix or Spotify for digital books. They have just raised over three million dollars in venture capital funding to make this a reality. The intention is to offer thousands of eBooks available to read on a monthly basis for a annual subscription fee.Many other companies have claimed to be the Netflix of eBooks, but have never gained … [Read more...] about Oyster Wants to be the Netflix of eBooks and Raises 3 Million in Funding to Make it Happen
Authors Guild Lawsuit Against Universities is Thrown Out of Court
The entire saga of lawsuits against Google's Book Scanning project may be over, in the near future. It stemmed from the Authors Guild filing a class action lawsuit against Google and many Universities that offered the books that were scanned. Today there is big news surrounding this court case.U.S. District Judge Harold Baer of New York dismissed an infringement lawsuit … [Read more...] about Authors Guild Lawsuit Against Universities is Thrown Out of Court
Barnes and Noble NOOK Bookstore Will be Available in 10 International Markets by June 2013
The CEO of Barnes and Noble William Lynch spoke at the Liberty Media Investor Conference in New York today. He gave some very interesting statistics on the success of pre-orders on the new Nook HD line of tablets and some other international news.The Nook HD and HD+ Tablets were only announced with the last month and already their is huge customer demand in ordering them in … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble NOOK Bookstore Will be Available in 10 International Markets by June 2013
Warner Bros. Digital Distribution Releases Robin Hood and Singin’ in the Rain
Warner Bros. Digital Ditribution back in April released the first eBooks in their Inside the Script series. The company has now released two new eBooks that aren't apart of this series but continues in the spirit of it. The followup titles, which include; Robin Hood and “Singin’ in the Rain” in raw form.These eBooks include the complete shooting script, authentically … [Read more...] about Warner Bros. Digital Distribution Releases Robin Hood and Singin’ in the Rain
Douglas County Libraries New iOS App Allows In-App Purchases
Douglas County Libraries has come up with a new iOS app with the unique ability of allowing in-app purchases while most of its peers force users to do the same via a browser. The app is also easy to use though the fact that is based on Adobe’s Digital Rights Management technology does dampen things a bit as this limits the use of the app in a limited number of devices. Of … [Read more...] about Douglas County Libraries New iOS App Allows In-App Purchases
eBooks Account for 16% of all Sales in Canada
A new Survey issued by BookNet Canada has claimed that 16% of all book purchases in Canada are in Digital form. Not only are eBooks on the rise but people are making more tangible purchases online. Approximately 20% of print book purchases were made online (27.5% of all book sales were online, including mobile). But in-store purchases are still more prevalent: non-book … [Read more...] about eBooks Account for 16% of all Sales in Canada
Kobo Acquires Aquafadas to bring more Comics and Kids Books into Digital Form
Today Kobo has announced that they have purchased Aquafadas to bring kids books, comics, academic texts and magazines into the Kobo ecosystem.Aquafadas is based in France and boasts a user-base of over 50,000 individuals and companies. It originally launched in 2004 and grew into one of the larger companies focusing on rich media and offers the most advanced Digital … [Read more...] about Kobo Acquires Aquafadas to bring more Comics and Kids Books into Digital Form
Kobo Makes a Massive Push into New Zealand
Kobo has just formed partnerships with Booksellers New Zealand and The Paper Plus Group. This will bring new e-Reading devices and the Kobo bookstore to customers on a retail level and online.Kobo established its first partnership in New Zealand with Whitcoulls in 2010, and is now working with independent bookstore members of Booksellers NZ and the Paper Plus Group to bring … [Read more...] about Kobo Makes a Massive Push into New Zealand