#ebooks

17 bookmarks

http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/nook-pulls-out-...

If I owned a Nook, I would a) be furious and b) be looking to break the DRM on everything on it, ASA...

alasdairw Mar 07, 2016

http://zacwe.st/blog/kindle-to-epub

This is definitely esier now that it was the last time I looked at it. Must do this.

alasdairw Oct 31, 2012

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/0...

I have had a few conversations recently with people who have kvetched about having to pay the same p...

alasdairw Apr 18, 2012

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2012/0...

Mr Stross, on Amazon's strategy, and the obvious step publishers could take to help unseat them from...

alasdairw Apr 17, 2012

http://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/today-is-not-...

Solid overview of the state of (e-)publishing for the near-to-medium term.

alasdairw Apr 16, 2012

http://connortomas.com/2010/04/iphone-reading/

This is two years old, and I am frustrated that most of the things that are being talked about here...

alasdairw Mar 23, 2012

http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060...

In the UK, they're only selling more ebooks than hardbacks, but in the US, it's only taken 4 years f...

alasdairw May 20, 2011

http://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2010/12/03/harp...

More grist to my mill in re: getting rid of books as physical objects: cheap POD books, which is whe...

alasdairw Dec 06, 2010

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/personal_es...

This is a really really good personal summary of an obsessive book collector's relationship with his...

alasdairw Dec 02, 2010

http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/12/amazon-launches-k...

Ooh, now this is very interesting indeed. I could probably assemble 10,000 words on any one specifi...

alasdairw Oct 12, 2010

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/01/31/all-about-epub-the-...

Might be useful at some future point, particularly with regard to links to tools to convert other fi...

alasdairw Feb 01, 2010

http://www.tobiasbuckell.com/2010/01/31/why-my-boo...

The Amazon/Macmillain dispute explained with reference to exactly how books prices are arrived at.

alasdairw Feb 01, 2010

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/0...

You may have missed this one over the weekend, but it's worth flagging up: Amazon took the hammer to...

alasdairw Feb 01, 2010

http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomi...

According to one set of maths, it might actually work out cheaper for the paper to give away Kindles...

alasdairw Feb 05, 2009