Amazon and Overdrive have been collaborating for the last year on a system that would allow Kindle Books to be borrowed from public libraries. Today Amazon announced that it is rolling out its borrowing service to over 11,000 public libraries in the USA. If you are in possession of an Amazon Kindle e-Reader, you can finally borrow books from public libraries that do business … [Read more...] about Amazon Kindle Books Available at over 11,000 Libraries in the USA
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Kindle for PC Updated and Supports Kindle Print Replica Content
Amazon has updated their computer platform for Kindle Books with Kindle for PC and MAC. The company's main upgrade was to fix lingering crash issues and to issue support for Kindle Print Replica Content. Kindle Print Replica content looks like the corresponding print book and can be read on the latest Kindle for PC and Kindle for Mac reading applications. Each page in a … [Read more...] about Kindle for PC Updated and Supports Kindle Print Replica Content
Romance Author Bella Andre Makes the Leap to Digital Publishing
As the publishing industry changes—a nearly daily occurrence, as the trends and technology struggle to keep up—the role of the author is changing as well. If there ever actually existed a time when a bestselling author sat overlooking a tree-lined street and churned out novels that were immediately whisked away to infamy by an agent and a publisher, those days are long over. In … [Read more...] about Romance Author Bella Andre Makes the Leap to Digital Publishing
Refurbished Kindle 3 Prices at Its Lowest Ever
A tried and tested method of enhancing sales or clearing stock is to slash prices and Amazon has done just that with its Kindle 3 e-reader, except it's the refurbished model. Only $99 is all takes to bring home a refurbished 3rd gen Kindle Wi-Fi, with the 3G variant of the same now priced at $139. This against the $139 and $189 price tags that the Wi-Fi only and 3G + Wi-Fi … [Read more...] about Refurbished Kindle 3 Prices at Its Lowest Ever
Amazon Kindle vs the iRiver Story HD e-Reader Comparison
Welcome to another Good e-Reader Video Comparison! Today we take a look at the Amazon Kindle 3rd generation and the iRiver Story HD! It is a battle of e-readers and ecosystems, with Amazon and Google going head to head! In this comparison we mainly look at the physical hardware and ebook reading differences. Both of these devices look very similar with the full QWERTY … [Read more...] about Amazon Kindle vs the iRiver Story HD e-Reader Comparison
Amazon Publishing Keeping Its Distance from Indie Publishing
Amazon has made some of the largest strides in ushering in a new publishing model, larger than possibly any other major name, adopting models for self-publishing print books through its adoption of CreateSpace. Amazon has three distinctly separate publishing models under its wing, with CreateSpace for print-on-demand hard copy books, a digital self-publishing model for ebooks … [Read more...] about Amazon Publishing Keeping Its Distance from Indie Publishing
Kobo Sought to Be International All Along
Michael Serbinis, CEO of Kobo, spoke to GoodEReader.com one-on-one in an interview at BookExpo America in May, and he was back in front of the reporters this past week to talk about the finalized developments in some of Kobo’s new frontiers. The first is its expansion into a more global market, something Serbinis says was Kobo’s intent from the beginning. With its very … [Read more...] about Kobo Sought to Be International All Along
Amazon Sales Tax Battle Continues
As more and more state governments around the U.S. begin to see Amazon.com as a potential cash cow to solve the budget-balancing woes brought on by a recent recession and irresponsible spending, the online retailer has been putting out the financial fires by quietly dissolving its affiliates programs in those states. In one case with Texas, Amazon chose to be more proactive and … [Read more...] about Amazon Sales Tax Battle Continues
USA TODAY Expands its Bestseller List Experience
The USA TODAY bestseller list has long been the respected go-to source for finding out which books are worthy of consumers’ book purchasing dollars. Making the list means increased exposure for the author and publishing house and can often result in even greater sales ahead of the ones that put a title on the list in the first place. USA TODAY is now expanding the experience … [Read more...] about USA TODAY Expands its Bestseller List Experience
OverDrive Adds Smaller Publishers to its Catalog
OverDrive has been in the digital publishing news lately for its improvements to ebook lending and its work with public libraries to increase their reach of digital loans. Now, OverDrive has announced it carries DRM-free content from seventeen smaller publishers, including some self-published authors, including indie author J.A. Konrath. A full list of these publishers can be … [Read more...] about OverDrive Adds Smaller Publishers to its Catalog