The link below is to an article/tutorial on how to self-publish your own Kindle ebook.
For more visit:
http://michaelhyatt.com/kindle-publishing-success.html
Monthly Archives: July 2013
Article: Who Controls Ebooks?
The link below is to an article that looks at the question of ‘who controls ebooks?’ I’m sure a good number of people now know that the answer is not the reader who paid for it.
For more visit:
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/07/ideas-bank/how-amazon-kindled-the-bookburners-flames
Article: Refusing to Use an Ebook Reader
The link below is to an article that looks at why people refuse to use ebook readers and thereby ebooks.
For more visit:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-rubinstein/no-i-wont-use-an-ereader_b_3542684.html
Article: Copyright Extension Make Books Unavailable
The link below is to an article that takes a look at copyright extension and how books are made unavailable by it.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/new-study-copyright-extension-makes-works-unavailable-public-domain-lets-them-flourish/
Video: How to Read a Book in 2013
Article: Amazon ‘Showrooms’
The link below is to an article that reports on a practice that many ebook enthusiasts have probably engaged in – browsing in a bookshop and then buying books/ebooks from an Amazon bookstore online.
For more visit:
http://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/bookstores-tired-of-being-amazon-showrooms/
Article: Amazon & Ebook Extras
The link below is to an article that reports on Amazon’s latest patent efforts – ebook extras.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-patents-social-e-book-extras/
Article: Copyright & Book Disappearance
The link below is to an article that reports on an issue which I have long considered at the heart of the copyright dilemma – the disappearance of books still under copyright.
For more visit:
http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/copyright-extension-kills-books-study-finds/
Article: Demise of the Nook
The link below is to an article that takes a look at the demise of the Nook and why Barnes & Noble are struggling.
For more visit:
http://www.babble.com/tech/4-reasons-barnes-and-noble-failed-the-nook/
Article: Children & Reading
The link below is to an article that reports on a troubling aspect of modern life – children aren’t reading enough.
For more visit:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/jul/06/children-miss-out-on-reading
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