Amazon managed to boost the e-book industry by releasing Kindle to the market a couple of years ago. Since then, the company has adjusted its plans to enhance its ebook sales dramatically. The fact that Kindle app is available on so many platforms gives consumers more confidence to shop at Amazon for their next e-book. [...]

Nook and Kindle owners have the option to borrow and lend e-books already. While the lending process is not perfect on these devices, it gives e-book fans the chance to get more out of their e-readers. EbookFling is an exciting new website that takes the concept a step further. It enables Nook and Kindle owners [...]

Remember the controversial pedophilia book that got Amazon in so much hot water? Its author has found out the hard way that one can’t write a book about such a topic and get away with it. He was recently arrested in Florida for obscenity charges. You cannot engage or depict children in a harmful relationship… [...]

E-books make great gifts. They are not too expensive but can be nice gifts for those who own e-reader devices such as Kindle and Nook (or use their companion software). Not too many of e-reader companies actually allow e-books to be gifted. Kobo is changing that for this holiday season. Kobo fans can purchase e-books [...]

Who says people do not read anymore? Some people may have been skeptical about using Kindle or Nook to read books in the past. That is changing very fast. Only 8 years ago, ebook sales stood around $7m. The market has come a long way since then. With 10.3 million e-readers around, it’s no wonder [...]

E-book publishers may have been somewhat greedy when it comes to their e-book pricing strategies. That does not mean consumers can’t shop around and hold publishers and e-book stores responsible for their high prices. Leatherbound is an exciting service that lets e-book fans to compare prices across 3 major e-book platforms (Kindle, Apple, nook). That [...]

Amazon keeps adding more to its Kindle platform. The company has just announced Kindle Singles to allow authors to bring their shorter books to Kindle store. Not every book can be 400 pages long. Shorter e-books will be now classified under Kindle Singles on Amazon: Less than 10,000 words or more than 50,000: that is [...]

With all the talk about e-book readers and how great they are, it is easy to forget what has been happening in the e-book reader market in the past few months. Some of the most promising e-reader devices have died without even making it to the market (e.g. Plastic Logic Que Reader). In fact, only [...]

We knew Apple was going places with the iPad. What we did not expect was the speed in which the company has increased its e-book market-share. During WWDC 2010, Steve Jobs announced that Apple had sold over 5 million e-books since the launch of iPad. That puts Apple’s Ebook market-share roughly at 22%. Steve Jobs [...]

The hot story on the web seems to be the fact that Dan Brown’s latest book, The Lost Symbol, is selling more in e-book edition than its paperback counterpart. The Kindle Nation caught this development, and the web went crazy over it. After all, if an ebook can dominate the book sales on Amazon, that’s [...]

You thought Apple may be the toughest competitor to Amazon in the e-book market (with its upcoming MediaPad)? Think again. Google did announce a while back that it was planning to compete with Amazon (in an indirect way). But who knew Google had grand plans for the e-book market? Google announced that it is working [...]

A few days ago, I mentioned how the pressure was mounting on Amazon to make changes to its Read-To-Me feature on Kindle 2.0. Since the day Kindle 2.0 was introduced, a few people were making the case against Read-To-Me and its legality. It seems Amazon has finally caved in and decided to make software changes [...]

Oprah endorsing Amazon Kindle was a big thing. At least that was the logical expectations when a heavyweight such as Oprah calls Kindle one the “best gadgets” she has ever had. But analysts are claiming that Oprah’s endorsement may not matter to Amazon until 2010! Oprah’s endorsement has had some effect. And I think the [...]

If you are an eBook master, count eBay out of the avenues where you can market you eBook. I personally have sold a few eBooks on eBay, but that was a long ago. Now you can’t do that on eBay, but I guess you can always use Amazon to market your eBook for Amazon Kindle.