eBooks in the News

As if the presence of Amazon, Apple, and Barnes & Noble in the ebook industry weren’t enough to overwhelm consumers, online giant Google Inc. is also throwing its hat into the fray by coming out with its own ebook store – Google Editions.

Worldreader.org, an organization that aims to to send ebook readers to developing countries to help in educating children has picked out the Amazon Kindle as the ereader of choice. Read more about it here.

An app for the Amazon Kindle, the Nook from Barnes & Noble, and the Sony Reader, the New York Times Book Review app is on its way. This is both a great help for book enthusiasts, and a smart business move for the newspaper company. Read more about it here.

If you own an ebook reader like the Amazon Kindle or Sony Reader, understanding ebook geographic restrictions is a subject that you’d benefit knowing about. What is it and why is it in place? Here are the two sides to this story.

“Read an Ebook Week” was first registered with Chase’s Calendar of Events in 2004. It encourages authors, publishers and users to promote the benefits of utilizing an ereader like the Amazon Kindle or Sony Reader. So why trade in your paperbacks for ebooks? Read on to find out more.

Amazon has made a deal with the United Kingdom’s British Library to make 65,000 out-of-print books dating back to the 19th Century available for FREE for the Kindle. In this sense, the ebook reader is really bringing something to the public that in the past was never achievable.

Just recently, McGraw-Hill Professional released “Select: eChapters in an Instant,” a collection of book chapters for business professionals. The publisher’s latest release would allow businessmen, who are also Kindle owners (or any ebook reading device for that matter) to purchase just the chapters of essential business information.

In the internet, we can get information fast, condensed and graphically enhanced. Keeping up with the consumers’ demand for quick information, a company is going to offer shortened versions of ebooks for Kindle and other digital readers.

On and on, a bitter battle has hit message boards like a virus, If you are in any way concerned about how ebooks will be priced in the near future, then you should know that the ebook agency model is a hot topic nowadays. Amazon, makers of the best-selling ebook reader Kindle, has definitely made its position clear by defending the consumer and boycotting a top publisher but HEY, what about the authors?

David Young, CEO for Hachette Book Group USA announced recently that they will be shifting to an agency model for e-book pricing, following closely the Macmillan price dispute with Amazon. Could this mean a decline in the popularity of the Kindle?