Borders was in bankruptcy court earlier in the month, where it was selling off its intellectual property. Barnes and Noble was the winner of the auction and has purchased 48 million customer profiles.During the last week Barnes and Noble has been sending emails to former Borders customers asking them to gravitate to the nations largest bookstore. If you have received an … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Buys Borders Customer List
E-Book News
Barnes and Noble Dropping App Support for Blackberry
Barnes and Noble is officially dropping support for its app for the Blackberry line of smartphones. As of October 5th 2011 the company will no longer be providing in-app purchases. This is mainly due to the fact the company is suspending support for the PDB format, which is the ebook type they have been using to deliver content to blackberry users. Meanwhile Playbook users are … [Read more...] about Barnes and Noble Dropping App Support for Blackberry
Ebook of the Week feature: Maxwell Cynn
This week’s GoodEReader.com Ebook of the Week offers readers a more adult-themed world of erotic science fiction with Maxwell Cynn’s work, CybrGrrl, a twisted tightly-woven tale of a downloadable program who gains self-awareness and begins to interfere in the lives of the program users.“The main character in CybrGrrl is a computer programmer who downloads a desktop … [Read more...] about Ebook of the Week feature: Maxwell Cynn
Lendingebook allows authors to sell their own books
We wrote about a new ebook lending site a few weeks ago that allows users to lend and borrow Kindle and Nook Books with each other. Today the company has ushered in a new feature that allows authors to sell their own books on the website as well.LendingeBook is one of our favourite book lending sites because it is currently the only one that allows people to borrow both … [Read more...] about Lendingebook allows authors to sell their own books
Apple Newsstand to be released this week
Apple is getting into the magazine game by opening its very own Newsstand. This is a new way for publishers to deliver magazine content via Apples extensive distribution platform. The new service is set to be unveiled this week and will more then likely be apart of the Apple Press conference.Apple newsstand is apart of the new iOS 5 update and will be on your devices main … [Read more...] about Apple Newsstand to be released this week
Kindle Fire Boasts Exclusive Content
A sleek new design and a cheaper price point aren’t the only thing that Amazon fans are anticipating for November. Besides the obvious features of the Kindle Fire tablet PC and the Amazon name to back it up, comics and graphic novel fans are going to love the included content.One hundred titles of content, to be exact.The Kindle Fire tablet will come with 100 DC Comics’ … [Read more...] about Kindle Fire Boasts Exclusive Content
Fans Will Have to Wait a Little Longer for Harry Potter Ebooks
The Harry Potter books have been unreleased in ebook form—legal copies, anyway—but were slated to be released one at a time via the Pottermore.com website. Unfortunately, e-reader fans are now going to have to wait a little longer for access to those titles.According to the Pottermore.com blog, Insider.Pottermore.com, the site crew has been so busy with the beta launch of … [Read more...] about Fans Will Have to Wait a Little Longer for Harry Potter Ebooks
Zinio talks future of digital Magazine Publishing and relationship with Apple
Zinio is one of the most successful online digital magazine companies in the world! We caught up with Matthew Davis the VP of User Experience at the recent E-Reader Conference in San Francisco! At Zinio Matthew is principally charged with evolving the utility, form and beauty of Zinio's international newsstand and bookstore. Matthew served at Zinio from almost the very … [Read more...] about Zinio talks future of digital Magazine Publishing and relationship with Apple
Qualcomm talks about future of Mirasol based screen technology
During the e-Readers 20111 Conference in San Francisco we met with Cheryl Goodman, a self-proclaimed surfer girl from San Jose! Cheryl is the Senior Director of Publisher Relations at Qualcomm. In this role she is responsible for forging connections in the publishing industry. Primarily she is trying to secure content for a new breed of Mirasol based technologies.She gave … [Read more...] about Qualcomm talks about future of Mirasol based screen technology
Publishers Joining the Ebook-Only Venture
With all of the buzz—both positive and extremely negative—surrounding the large number of literary agents now exploring ebook-only titles for their author clients, a new level of credibility and respectability has come out in the form of a major publishing house expanding to release the digital rights to out-of-print and author-held rights’ books.Bloomsbury Publishing, an … [Read more...] about Publishers Joining the Ebook-Only Venture
Round Table discussion on eBooks with Harvard Business Review and Oxford Press
We are at the first annual e-reader conference in San Francisco and we were privy to a round table discussion on eBooks with three stalwart gentlemen. Joining us is executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Paul Michaelman. Also Mike Robinson the eBook Sales and Marketing Manager of Oxford University Press and finally Rob Burns Sr. Director Software Manager of Ebsco … [Read more...] about Round Table discussion on eBooks with Harvard Business Review and Oxford Press
Interview with Doug Klein VP Product Management Barnes and Noble
Doug Klein originally cut his teeth working on old school terminals and communication systems before joining Barnes and Noble. Since joining the company and meeting with CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos 10 years before the Amazon Kindle was created and saw the tremendous growth of the Nook line of e-readers.The Nook group at Barnes and Noble was top secret when it launched in 2009 … [Read more...] about Interview with Doug Klein VP Product Management Barnes and Noble
How e-readers fit into the newspaper industry
We met with Nikolay Malyarov of Newspaper direct at the first annual e-readers conference in San Francisco. It seems a large percentage of the user base has transcend from traditional mediums such as newspapers, television, print to an online base. He makes the claim that e-readers are being used more to provide medium consumption.Newspapers have been trying to figure out … [Read more...] about How e-readers fit into the newspaper industry
Long-Lost Dr. Seuss Titles Appear in Digital
Dr. Seuss is perhaps one of the best known "subversive" writers, instilling his own marvelous brand of educational propaganda into children's literature. Until Seuss came along, most children's books were meant only to instruct and inform, not to entertain. Stories of uniform, good little boys and girls were the hallmarks of juvenile reading. When Seuss introduced his own … [Read more...] about Long-Lost Dr. Seuss Titles Appear in Digital