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Ebook Pioneer Jason Merkoski’s History of, and Predictions for Digital Reading Blog As a former leader for the building of Amazons first Kindle, Jason Merkoski brings an insiders background to the continuing transformation of publishing from print on paper to digital print. What makes most me impatient to read his book Burning the Page: The eBook Revolution and the Future of Reading is something he said in a New York Times interview: When it comes to book recommendations, retailers have the literary sensibilities of a spreadsheet theyll just recommend the most popular books to me, or books that other people also bought, but they know nothing of the soul and sparkle...

by JTD » EBooks •4/29/2013 Blog
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A Little Loosening in Ebook Library Lending? Simon & Schuster Allows NY Public Library to E-Lend Their Steve Jobs Biography Blog While ebook borrowing has been a welcome development for public library users, the hit-or-miss user experience can be somewhat frustrating for cardholders. Ebooks are subject to number-of-checkout limitations (simultaneous user restrictions) similar to those of print editions (number of copies owned / rented by their library). As book publishers have struggled with building a sustainable model for pricing ebooks for public library lending, library staff have been on the front lines of public confusion about what is or should be available. Simon & Schusters announcement of a pilot ...

by JTD » EBooks •4/15/2013 Blog
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Swedish Chef Meets Monty Python in Book Technology Send-Up Discussion The Wall Why is it that everything is extra funny when delivered in a Scandinavian accent? I wonder if Medieval monks complained about the discontinuity of page breaks.

“When you’re used to paper rolls it takes some time to convert to turn the pages . . .”

by JTD » EBooks •4/2/2013 Discussion
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Graphic Novels Will Seem Like Child’s Play as Authors Experiment with Interactive Storytelling Blog As mainstream authors begin to experiment with digital storytelling, they hope to preserve the inherent literary qualities of a book. For digital offerings to retain their book-ness and not cross into some other form, authors and publishers will need to include interactive features, not just add them as video game style bling. Both best-selling and prize-nominated authors quoted in a recent Guardian article about experimental ebooks affirmed the essential linearity in writing and reading, even when authors have played around with form. An example of this new form is an adaptatio...

by JTD » EBooks •3/20/2013 Blog
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Amazon and Apple Should Build TV-Type Residuals into Used Ebook Sales Blog It seems as though the issues of pricing and compensation are the most significant challenges to overcome as online retailers explore the possibilities in creating marketplaces for the resale of digital content. Both Amazon and Apple have filed patents that address the technology side of used ebook resale (Amazon received theirs in January). It turns out that the people side continues to cause most of the commotion. Its not as though this is uncharted territory. So many of the discussions about the issue compare the sale of used e-books to the sale of used print books. Authors may...

by JTD » EBooks •3/8/2013 Blog
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Spreadsong’s Free Books App – 23K+ Classics from Aristotle to Wodehouse and Beyond Blog Freebook Sifter is great for finding free stuff to put on my KindleTouch for reading on the go, but I find it hard to have a reading experience in which the device has disappeared when it comes to reading concentration-demanding classic literature. I need to turn the page too frequently even using a small font doesnt accommodate enough words per page. For a long time I was stubborn and only read ebooks in e-ink. Now I find that as long as Im careful about settings, I can read pretty comfortably on an iPad after all. Using a landscape view with two columns on a big screen replicates...

by JTD » EBooks •2/26/2013 Blog
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Cool “Flip” Phone Has Two Displays – One in E-ink Blog Ive been waiting and waiting for Apple to roll out an iPad that uses the toggle technology they patented several years ago which offers both e-ink and backlit displays on one device. Id be thrilled to be able to use the same device for easy-on-the-eyes book reading and a backlit display for video. Id also like to have e-Ink on a bigger screen, something no longer an option since Amazon discontinued the premium-priced 9.7 Kindle DX. An interesting product that addresses the concept of hybrid display is the soon-to-be-released Yotaphone. Rather than providing both screen types via a si...

by JTD » EBooks •1/31/2013 Blog
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Ebooks by Sainsbury’s – How Grocery Store Books Have Changed Blog Its hard to believe that it was only in the last ten year that supermarkets were expanding their book offerings in an attempt to introduce the ambiance of a Borders or Barnes and Noble bookstore caf setting into the big box environment. Because the stores devoted most of the limited shelf space to bestsellers, I never found them appealing. UK retailer Sainsburys has taken a more interesting tack half a year after purchasing the ebook-oriented social networking site anobii.com. Ebooks by Sainsburys is harnessing the reader community on anobii to help push its ebook offerings throug...

by JTD » EBooks •1/24/2013 Blog
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Freebook Sifter a Cool Tool for Finding Free Kindle Ebooks by Subject Area Blog I like free books. Its not that Im not willing to pay for content. In fact, Ive been buying more hard copy books lately than I had been before getting my ereader. But Ive been reluctant to load my Kindle with too much value in terms of cash spent. Ebooks strike me as too ephemeral. Theyre not conducive to the serendipitous discovery by another person, whether a family member or visiting friend, of a book shelved on my book case. I also dont want to commit myself to the Kindle when theres a possibility that Apple might develop a technology that lets a user toggle between an eInk reader...

by JTD » EBooks •1/10/2013 Blog
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How Dare Retailers Charge More for Ebooks than for Print ? Blog A U.K. survey of prices of print and ebook versions of bestsellers found that 1/3 of ebook bestsellers are priced higher than their print versions. As a consumer of both ebooks and bound books, I often go for the print version when pricing is close. Mainly its because I dont spend a lot of money on books I dont expect to have a shelf life. If I spend more than $5 on a book, I want it to be on the living room bookshelf, easily browsable by the rest of my family. If a book is unlikely to inspire re-reading by me years from now or a first read by a family member, its a good candidate f...

by JTD » EBooks •10/5/2012 Blog
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