Okay, okay I’m sure I’m not the first person to use this headline, but I couldn’t resist the bad pun. In case you haven’t heard, Amazon is releasing new versions of the Kindle and their pricing strategy (itself not new) is expanding to their new offerings. The low end Kindle won’t have a Keyboard (though [...]
eBooks have always been something I’ve been interested in – even before we started to see dedicated readers. If that wasn’t the case, I never would have started our little venture here at FIP. I’ve been using my iPhone for the past few years as a reader, and that’s still a great choice. It’s largely [...]
Inspired by a post by Elizabeth at b10mediaworx.com on “Enhanced” e-books, I thought I’d ask you, our cherished readers, what you expect from us now that you’ve (in theory) seen our first effort. We want to make this process as seamless/painless as possible and in order to do that we need to know what we’ve [...]
There’s been a lot lot LOT of talk lately about the future of publishing, ebooks, etc.
Here’s Simon Wood talking about e-books from an author’s perspective. Here’s Pablo Defendini talking about what he would do with Barnes and Noble – which recently put itself on the auction block. And here’s a paperback publisher moving to e-books first, and following up with trade paperbacks. It’s a really interesting time to be in the publishing game.
But what does it mean for readers? It means options.
I may know art, but I don’t know what I like. I’ve always liked the absurd way that sounds. I have an aunt who is an educated artist. She has spent many years of her adult life taking courses in art at a major university. She has studied all mediums including sculpture, painting, and drawing. [...]