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Apple Grabs a Quarter of the eBook Market 13 Jun 2010 | 05:19 pm
Apple's debut of the iPad and iBookstore has been a successful one, with Steve Jobs announcing some impressive figures during his Worldwide Developers Conference keynote: According to Jobs, users hav...
Sony: eBooks to Overtake Print within 5 years 13 Jun 2010 | 05:12 pm
The Telegraph reports that Steve Haber, president of Sony’s digital reading business division, has said that "Within five years there will be more digital content sold than physical content. Three yea...
The eBook Age Begins in Earnest? 1 Jun 2010 | 12:47 pm
E-book sales grew exponentially in the first quarter of 2010, jumping from just 1.5% of total US book sales in 2009 to 5% of the market in the first quarter of 2010: Thirty-seven percent of e-book bu...
Apple Opens iBookstore to Self-Publishers 30 May 2010 | 05:13 pm
Interesting news from Maclife: Are you a budding author? The next Stephen King? Or an author currently looking to cut out the middle man as you rollout your own books? It looks like your time has com...
Jeff Bezos on the Future of the Kindle 30 May 2010 | 05:05 pm
With Apple dominating the tech-market with the worldwide release of the iPad, one may have expected Amazon to take a step towards making the Kindle a more multi-function device. However, Amazon head J...
Kobo eBook Reader Video Review 26 May 2010 | 01:42 am
Here's an excellent review of the upcoming Borders 'Kobo' eBook reader by retired journalist Len Edgerly, with some comparisons to Amazon's Kindle and the Barnes and Noble Nook: The Kobo is set for r...
Google Editions Set for Summer 25 May 2010 | 12:51 am
The Wall Street Journal offers some confirmation of the schedule for Google Editions: Google Inc. plans to begin selling digital books in late June or July, a company official said Tuesday, throwing ...
Barnes and Noble Enter eBook Selfpublishing Market 25 May 2010 | 12:44 am
From the unofficial Kindle blog: After years of Amazon’s dominance in the self-publishing ebook marketplace, Barnes & Noble has decided to enter the scene. Eligible independent publishers and self-pu...
iPad Takeover 25 May 2010 | 12:34 am
It was said that Apple had already sold 1 million iPads by the start of May. And now, an analyst has said that it is likely that strong sales of the device are continuing at a rate of around 200,000 p...
The Rise of Self-Publishing 25 May 2010 | 12:24 am
From the New York Times, no less: "The Rise of Self-Publishing. Last year, according to the Bowker bibliographic company, 764,448 titles were produced by self-publishers and so-called microniche publ...