When you purchase an Amazon Kindle e-reader and use it for any length of time, Amazon collects all sorts of data from you. They can keep track of page turns, where you are tapping inside an ebook or how long it takes you to complete a novel. The extent of the tracking was brought to light in a tweet by Adrianne Jeffries, an investigative reporter for The Markup. Amazon … [Read more...] about What type of data does Amazon collect from Kindles?
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How Do You Monitor Your e-Reading Progress?
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?
Major Publishers Experience Declining e-book Revenue in the UK
The top publishers in the United Kingdom have experienced a small decline in e-book sales. Collectively they experienced a 2.4% loss in digital sales, which is partly attributed to higher prices. The Bookseller magazine says that each of the five biggest general trade publishers in the UK – Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Pan Macmillan and Simon & Schuster … [Read more...] about Major Publishers Experience Declining e-book Revenue in the UK
What new e-reader or tablet are you going to buy?
Good e-Reader Research conducts surveys and polls every month and looks at major trends in digital publishing, e-books and the e-reader industry. The holiday season is almost upon us and many people are buying a new device for themselves or a gift for a loved one. We wanted to know what new e-reader or tablet that people intended on purchasing. 573 people participated in … [Read more...] about What new e-reader or tablet are you going to buy?
Vook Launches Amazing New Book Tracking Tool, Author Control
A lot of focus in the publishing industry lately has centered around the need for more sales data for authors in order to let them exert more control over their writing careers. Until very recently, that data was closely guarded by retailers and unavailable even anecdotally to other authors. A series of surveys by different sources have given authors and publishers at least a … [Read more...] about Vook Launches Amazing New Book Tracking Tool, Author Control
Verizon Motorola XOOM news
Meanwhile, there has emerged some more hard core evidence that seems to point out the earlier rumors of the XOOM's Feb 24 launch date to be true after all. And the latest to testify the earlier rumor is this Best Buy ad which incidentally also lends some weight to another rumor - the price of the XOOM Android tablet. An earlier Verizon leak had pointed out the price to be … [Read more...] about Verizon Motorola XOOM news