Amazon books $3 billion passage to India – but with or without books?
Amazon head Jeff Bezos, during a meeting of the US-India Business Council on the occasion of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the US, announced that Amazon was ready to...
Lenovo debuts your flexible e-reading future with concept devices
Samsung has been getting a lot of press lately for its bendable, flexible, rollable smartphone concepts - still largely vaporware. Kudos for Lenovo, then, for demoing devices that actually appear to...
iBooks Editions: Too little, too late?
Earlier today, I noted the complete absence of e-book-related announcements from the WWDC keynote. On The Digital Reader, Nate Hoffelder called my attention to an iBooks-related announcement elsewhere. iBooks is announcing...
Is it time for me to ditch Calibre?
I have been a long-time fan of the Calibre e-book library software. I use it often to organize and categorize my books. But many of the functions which first drew me...
Using Amazon VoiceView to listen to Kindle books on your Fire
As TeleRead readers may recall, I mentioned the recent introduction of Amazon VoiceView to the Bellini OS running on Amazon's Fire tablets. I finally got a chance to try out this...
What was missing from Apple’s WWDC keynote? E-books
At Apple’s new WWDC keynote, CEO Tim Cook had a lot of interesting things to show off, but perhaps the most interesting thing was what wasn’t there. Apple Watch got a...
‘Imagine If Ebooks Had Come First’: Must-reading for your Luddite friends
"Imagine if ebooks came first. Imagine if Gutenberg had not created the printing press but the Kindle. Now, hundreds of years later, we are beginning to experiment with this new medium...
Print + digital = a growing business in book bundling: Interview with Shelfie’s Peter...
Peter Hudson, co-founder and CEO of BitLit Media, now known as Shelfie, has grown his startup book bundling firm significantly since I spoke with him last, in December of 2014.
In this...
Could Apple app subscription model portend changes to e-book royalties?
Michael W. Perry called my attention to an interesting pair of articles dealing with some newly-announced changes to Apple's iTunes app developer model---one on the Verge and one on MacNN.
The most...
Amazon: Buy a Kindle Paperwhite, get a free paperback
Amazon appears to be offering another limited-time offer bundling deal for Kindle fans and bibliophiles. This time it's a free book (paper variety) with your new Kindle Paperwhite.
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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...
