In case you missed it, Google just launched its all new ebook store to give authors, publishers, and ebook fans more ways to publish and consume content. Google ebooks are stored in the cloud, allowing e-book buyers to access their content on multiple devices. With over 3 million titles available in Google’s eBook Store, it [...]

The year 2010 has been a huge year for e-books. Amazon has had a huge year with Kindle. Apple iPad has also played a role in helping e-books become more mainstream. With the New York Times launching ebook best-seller lists, ebooks seem to have finally come full circle. The Times is a trusted brand within [...]

The adoption of the “agency model” by a few top publishers in the U.S. generated a lot of outrage on the consumer side. Amazon promised at the time that it would fight such a model. Top publishers were still able to push through and force Amazon to sell e-books at the prices they wanted. It [...]

e-book piracy is on the rise. There are always going to be people who are not educated about piracy or prefer getting their hands on the bestsellers for free. Apple iPad and its support for popular file formats such as PDF seems to be very attractive for e-book pirates. Let’s not forget that the iPad [...]

Steve Jobs famously claimed in the past that people just don’t read books in this age of technology. It seems e-books and e-book readers are encouraging more people to change that. It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore… Forty percent of the people in [...]

e-readers have come a long way since Amazon decided to breathe a new life into this market a few years ago. Sony and a few other companies have been in this business for quite a while. But they failed to make e-readers go mainstream. It did take Amazon a few months to get people talking [...]

Since Amazon started pushing Kindle hard, we have been on the company’s case for selling e-books for too high of a price. Those $9.99 e-books do save people money, considering that hard-cover books sell for much more than that. At the same time, people can’t lend Amazon e-books, nor can they sell them. When a [...]

Things are very clear when we deal with physical products. Everybody knows that if you go to a store and pick up a book without paying for it, you are committing a crime. Sure. You can always get a free book as a part of promotion. But you get the point. There is no gray [...]

Amazon Kindle has been quite successful in the past few years. It has not only given the e-book industry the boost it needed to move forward and grow, it has provided publishers and independent authors with a platform to share their content with. Kindle Publishing Platform has certainly made it easier for more people to [...]

Remember how Amazon Kindle was supposed to give us all a more affordable way to buy and read books? After all, Amazon was supposed to set its own e-book prices so low to make it possible for Kindle owners to save money in the long run. We always knew that large publishers would not give [...]

Are Amazon or other e-book sellers’ prices too high? That’s the question many experts and e-book fans have been asking in the past few months. When Amazon launched the Kindle product line, it started pushing the fact that “most” e-books were priced at $9.99 as a way to grab more market-share. After all, if you [...]

I know. How do you even define “used” eBooks? eBooks don’t deteriorate as you use them. They don’t age. They don’t disintegrate after you have read them a million times. Your eBook is going to look new while your Kindle ages. So eBooks last longer than paperback books. But you can’t sell them. I have [...]

I can’t believe how many times folks ask me how they can find more content for Amazon Kindle. I am more in science and technical books, and there are plenty available, but a whole lot of folks actually use their Kindle to read novels and classic masterpieces. Now, that is you, then you have about [...]