The links below are to articles that report on Amazon’s latest venture, this time into comics, with the launch of Jet City Comics.
For more visit:
– http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/07/09/amazon-publishing-launches-jet-city-comics/
– http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/amazon-introduces-jet-city-comics-imprint_b38196
– http://www.teleread.com/amazon/amazon-launches-jet-city-comics-a-new-imprint-for-comics-and-graphic-novels/
The link below is to an article on the Internet Archive – probably my favourite place on the Internet.
The link below is to an article that takes a look at books on whistleblowing.
For more visit:
http://www.boston.com/arts/books/2013/06/22/look-selected-books-whistle-blowing/jxw5pRahletytReSiceE0I/story.html
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
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
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
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/
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/
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/
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/
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