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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Book battle: Dymocks considers offshore option – ABC News Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Fascinating story this. I’ve heard and been part of a few conversations about this phenomenon for some time. It is interesting both from the perspective of the booksellers and the publishing, and the state’s perspective. It demonstrates the way that external actors can undermine a state’s tax base. I wonder…
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Continue reading →: GO READ THIS | Gifting Comes To Kindle
Amazon has just announced that you can now give Kindle ebooks as gifts to anyone with an email address. This is kind of amazing and represents a huge shift in the ebook ecosystem. Given that kindle ebooks can be read on nearly any platform that allows app downloads (PC, MAC,…
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Continue reading →: Quick Link | I was wrong about the golden age. But we are in a literary boom | Books | guardian.co.uk
This is an interesting perspective. I suppose that like all booms, there will be big winners in small numbers and big losers in much larger numbers! But if it’s not appropriate to speak of a golden age, there’s certainly some kind of boom going on. Ben Johncock’s recent Guardian blog…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Amazon Media Room: News Release
As well as being a distributor and retailer Amazon IS a publisher of size and merit. Just in case that wasn’t obvious before, they made it so with the announcement today: Amazon and The Toby Press today announced that Amazon plans to acquire the publication rights of up to 121…
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Continue reading →: Go Read This | Kobo Beats Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Sony To eBook Gifting « Mike Cane’s xBlog
Well done Kobo! What’s particularly great about this is that Kobo’s eBooks are ePub using “classic” Adobe DRM. So you can buy nearly anyone — except Kindle owners — an eBook as a gift. The ePub can be read on a Sony Reader, a Barnes & Noble Nook, a Kobo…
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