Some 300,000 Stanza users via iPhones and iPod Touches: Up from 85K in about...
Some 85,000 users of the iPhone and iPod Touch had downloaded Stanza as of August 12. Now, just five week or so later, the cumulative number has shot...
Book biz starting to see iPhone's promise for e-reading: NonDRMed copyrighted ePub books to...
Ficbot and Chris Meadows aren't the only ones seeing promise in the iPhone/Touch for e-reading. Both the MediaBistro Galley Cat blog and TheBookSeller have just run items---here and...
New York Magazine on publishing's crises and Amazon's Kindle
Found via BoingBoing, a New York Magazine article (single-page, multi-page) examines the various crises currently facing print book publishing. Said crises include the practice of paying out advances that are...
Graphing users' hatred of Wowio: Traffic count plummets
Some wonderful, talented people are behind Wowio. It's one more reason why I'm sorry to see traffic on the decline, following the controversial changes in the ad-supported site. In fact,...
eBabel victim: Philip Roth's latest novel; still AWOL from E: Michael Chabon's Alaska novel
If you want to read Indignation, Philip Roth's latest novel, you can buy a Kindle edition, not just a paper version. Trouble is, I don't see one bleepin' Roth novel...
Kindles in the classroom: World history teacher is sold on the K machine
Moderator: Anyone else out there with Kindle stories from the classroom? - D.R. I mentioned this story in an earlier post and I'm thrilled that Chris Edwards, teacher of...
KindleFeeder: RSS manager and feeder
Feedbooks' Hadrien Gardeur wonders if the KindleFeeder violates Amazon's terms of service. I'd welcome a response from Dan Choi, KF's developer. - DR I'm totally hooked on KindleFeeder, free new...
U.K. novelist Richard Herley back online—to give his shareware strategy another try
Richard Herley, the prize-winning author of such books as The Stone Arrow and The Penal Colony, lost faith some four months ago in his read-before-you-buy strategy. But now he tells...
Spore "disperses" at "extraordinary" rate
Wikipedia says, "In biology, a spore is a reproductive structure that is adapted for dispersal and surviving for extended periods of time in unfavorable conditions." Electronic Arts's game Spore is...
Stanza 1.4 video—complete with display of DRMless Pan Mac ePub books
Stanza 1.4, the next version of this promising e-reader for the iPhone and iPod Touch, will be out as soon as the App Store signs off on it. ...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
