Amazon Rapids is a new program that has just been launched today and it features short stories for kids. All of the content is delivered in the style of an instant messaging app and are told through the lens of characters chatting with each other, one message at a time.Younger children might enjoy the "read to me" mode that uses a phone or tablet's text-to-speech feature to … [Read more...] about Amazon Rapids is a new app that features short stories for kids
E-Book News
Sweek is trying to market Indie e-Books via Mobile Apps
Sweek is a young startup based in Rotterdam and they have just launched a series of mobile apps for Android and iOS. The company is trying to make self-published e-books viable for the smartphone generation and currently has a library of over 1,000 published stories and 20,000 classic e-books.The Sweek app launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair a few weeks ago and their … [Read more...] about Sweek is trying to market Indie e-Books via Mobile Apps
Instapaper makes Send to Kindle Free for everyone
Instapaper was purchased by Pinterest in August and the company has wasted no time in revising their paid subscription tiers. Normally users had to pay $3.00 per month or $30 a year to enjoy features like Send to Kindle, now everything is free and Instapaper is prorating refunds for people who have an active subscription.Starting today, you'll have access to all the goodies … [Read more...] about Instapaper makes Send to Kindle Free for everyone
PayPal Issues New e-Book Report
PayPal has issued a report that focuses on e-books, piracy and the most popular devices that people use. Â I think that the company is in a solid position to release meaningful data because so many app developers and digital bookstores use them for payment processing.Sixty percent of U.S. respondents read eBooks on their tablets, and 66 percent cited they purchase eBooks … [Read more...] about PayPal Issues New e-Book Report
Scribd Now Offers Digital Magazines
Scribd has just unveiled digital magazines to their online subscription service. Readers will have access to ten magazines that include; TIME, Fortune, Money, People, Bloomberg Businessweek, Entrepreneur, Foreign Policy, New York Magazine, Newsweek and The Atlantic. Scribd editors will be curating individual news articles and a new recommendation engine will direct readers to … [Read more...] about Scribd Now Offers Digital Magazines
E-Book Sales Decline 18.3% in May 2016
May was a terrible month for e-book sales and the format declined 18.3% in 2016 vs the same period last year. The same cannot be said about print, which saw increases across the board. Paperback books grew 7.2% and hardback books saw a big 17.4% uptake. The lone bright spot with digital was audiobooks, which continued their explosive growth and saw a 14.9% increase in … [Read more...] about E-Book Sales Decline 18.3% in May 2016
Chapters Indigo Announces the Best Books of 2016
It is almost the end of the year which means every bookseller and online retailer will be announcing their best books of 2016 lists. This is primarily done to draw attention to books you might have missed during the year, but also serve as a buying guide for the upcoming holidays. Today, Chapters/Indigo has just announced their list and it is spearheaded by by Canadian author … [Read more...] about Chapters Indigo Announces the Best Books of 2016
Everything You Need to Know About Baker & Taylor Global Publishers Services
Baker & Taylor has spent decades building strong retail relationships around the world for its wholesale business. The company wants to monetize their extensive network and created the Global Publishers Services. This will allow publishers to reach multiple sales channels, including traditional retail, online retailers, schools, libraries and consumers through e-commerce … [Read more...] about Everything You Need to Know About Baker & Taylor Global Publishers Services
The Hottest Trend In Digital Publishing are Serialized eBooks
The big new trend in digital publishing in 2016 is serialized novels that are delivered to you via an app or directly to the email inbox. Large publishers and a number of startups believe that most people do not read complete novels on their phone, but do have time to read a chapter a day.Serialized fiction first gained prominence in Victorian England and first appeared in … [Read more...] about The Hottest Trend In Digital Publishing are Serialized eBooks
OverDrive Continues Efforts Against IDPF Merger
Two entities in the digital publishing sphere that GoodeReader greatly admires--OverDrive and the IDPF--are at odds over a planned merger between the IDPF and W3C. Steve Potash, OverDrive's CEO, has vehemently expressed concerns over the upcoming member vote on the merger in the past, and is reiterating those concerns with the IDPF board and membership.The IDPF, or … [Read more...] about OverDrive Continues Efforts Against IDPF Merger
The Real Story – Why the Kindle Cloud Reader was Developed
The Amazon Kindle Cloud Reader is going to become the only e-reading platform for hundreds of thousands of users. It is the only solution to buy and read e-books on your iPHone and iPad. Not to mention Chromebooks, Windows RT, Windows 8 and Windows 10 tablets. Many people are disappointed in the Kindle Cloud Reader because it does not have any support for different fonts, … [Read more...] about The Real Story – Why the Kindle Cloud Reader was Developed
You can now gift e-books with Google Play Books
Google Play Books has just issued a new small update to their Android app that allows people to gift e-books. You simply need to navigate to one of the books on your homepage or within the Play Books Store and click on the three dots. There is an option to gift the e-book to someone with an existing account and they will get instantly notified that you have sent it and gives … [Read more...] about You can now gift e-books with Google Play Books
Vistaar is trying to solve the e-book pricing problem
Major publishers have all reported declining e-book revenue over the past two years. The main problem is that the average price per title has increased from $9.99 to $17.99 for a mainstream bestseller. This has resulted in the paperback being significantly more affordable than the digital edition and readers are gravitatating back to print.  The biggest issue facing publishers … [Read more...] about Vistaar is trying to solve the e-book pricing problem