The link below is to an article about how ebooks have impacted on one particular traditional bookshop. However, I would say that this type of impact is now becoming commonplace, especially among booksellers who seem reluctant to open an online dimension to their store.
The link below is to a website that is seeking to becoming the Spotify of ebooks. It hopes to have all of the world’s ebooks available for loan and reading.
For more visit:
http://holding.bilbary.com/
The link below is to an article reporting on another attempt to make a virtual library online with digital books. The Digital Public Library of America is currently raising funds for the project.
For more visit:
http://mashable.com/2012/07/30/digital-public-library/
The link below is to an article that looks at the pros and cons of both sites. I’m a Goodreads fan, so I’m happy where I am. I have looked at other sites, including LibraryThing, but settled on Goodreads in the end.
For part one of the series on Goodreads Vs LibraryThings, visit:
http://bookriot.com/2012/07/31/goodreads-v-librarything-part-one/
The link below is to the website Jellybooks, which is a site all about sharing books, sampling books and discovering books.
For more visit:
http://jellybooks.com/
The link below is to an article that contains an interview with Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Kindle. This article makes for an interesting read and is well worth a look.
For more visit:
Jeff Bezos Interview
The Book Stand is my Tumblr Blog, which is all about free Kindle and PDF format ebooks. The Blog is regularly updated and now has something like 50 ebooks listed. These ebooks are not always free for long, so please check that they still are if you wish to get the ebook for free only. There are some great books available for free.
Visit The Book Stand at:
The Book Stand.
The Book Stand content is now available in the right hand column of this Blog also via a RSS feed and widget.
Remember, you can always download the free Kindle app for your computer, Mac or other device from Amazon, so you don’t need to actually own a Kindle ebook reader.
Visit Amazon for these options:
Amazon Kindle Apps
Today had been quite unpleasant outside. It has been pouring with rain at times, then not. When it hasn’t been it has been blowing a gale and it is also quite cold. It’s bucketing down yet again. So very little has been able to be accomplished outside today. No great outdoors for me on this wet and miserable day.
I have been spending a bit of time, as a consequence of the weather, reading ‘The Bourne Identity,’ by Robert Ludlum. I haven’t read the Bourne series of books before, but have seen the movies many times. I’m a big fan of the Jason Bourne movies. However, having seen the movies it has been difficult to some degree reading the book. The book is very different to the movie, more so than what ‘The Hunt for Red October’ was to the film version. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still enjoying the…
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The link below is to an article that tells the story of one writer’s frustration with iBooks and the Apple iBookstore. This is one of the issues I have with Apple – the way they seek to monopolise a market and place unreasonable demands on their customers.
For more visit:
http://hollylisle.com/apple-made-its-decision-my-turn/
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