Information for a digital nation
Unless you’d decided to live a life of solitude during 2010, you’ve no doubt heard that ebooks and ebook readers, both dedicated eReaders and multi-purpose devices, are hot topics. At present the ebook market can still be considered a niche sector, but revenues in 2010 show that healthy amounts of money can be made and [...]
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Last year was the year that firmly placed ebooks in the public mind and yet surprisingly it was the Romance segment that was the fastest growing of all genres within this market – at least according to research done by Bowker (as reported by the NYtimes). As an example of this, Barnes & Noble, the [...]
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Earlier this week Waterstone’s announced they would stop selling eBooks to customers outside the UK, due to people from other countries buying books that should not be sold in those territories. It’s actually surprising that they’ve left the doors open for this long but according to Waterstone’s spokesman Jon Howells, “This is not a temporary [...]
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Earlier this week the Publishers Association (PA) made quite a strong statement (see below) on their new eBook lending restrictions for libraries and this has had quite an impact around the web. It’s not all bad, with some of these restrictions seeming pretty standard. However, what’s caused the real uproar is this, “library users [have [...]
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The publishing world is going digital, well, its trying. When we think of the costs involved in this the reaction from many people is, “cool, we’ll save loads of money”, but is this really true? Dominique Raccah from Sourcebooks says not. Dominique has talk before about how Sourcebooks is finding it very costly to go [...]
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The latest sales figures continue to show huge improvement for eBook and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) is saying that for the year-to-date, eBooks are taking 9% of total trade book sales; this is up from 3.3% for the whole of 2009. At $263 USD, that’s pretty impressive, but it should get better. Gina [...]
{For many years the eBook world has been fighting within itself due to the huge vareity of different eBook formats; from Mobipocket to eReader and from PDF to Amazon Kindle. But now there is a new format that’s set to dominate them all. Over the last 12 months there has been a huge shift in [...]
{In my last article I talked about the current eBook market from a U.S. perspective and now that the UK is getting it’s own dedicated E-Ink reader, we should see an increase in interest here also. Although the Sony Reader is the perfect digital eBook reader, you don’t need a dedicated reader to enjoy eBooks. [...]
{For my first post I thought I’d take a look at the current eBook sales. eBooks have been around for quite sometime but since seeing the introduction of the E-Ink Readers in the U.S. the sales of eBooks have risen quite considerably. Below is a chart released by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) which [...]
{Over the last few years eBooks have been gaining great traction over in the U.S., now finally in the UK, eBooks are also starting to enter the mainstream market – mainly due to one particular milestone… From September 2008 the UK will have their very own eBook Reader, the Sony PRS-505 Digital Book Reader. Sony [...]
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