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Blog Buddy Ed Gorman gave me the original heads up on this little nugget and I thought it would be apropos to pass it along.
In February, e-Books hit a major milestone. According to Association of American Publishers (AAP) sales figures, eBooks ranked as the top format among all categories of trade publishing.
E-Book sales totaled $90.3 million for the month, expanding 202 percent compared to the same period last year. YOWZA...
Here’s more from the AAP: "This one-month surge is primarily attributed to a high level of strong post-holiday e-Book buying, or ‘loading,’ by consumers who received e-Reader devices as gifts. Experts note that the expanded selection of e-Readers introduced for the holidays and the broader availability of titles are factors."
Did you hear that? Get on board, everyone. Dust old those old manuscripts because it's great news for scribes everywhere.
NEWSFLASH: 'J.K. Rowling Considering Harry Potter e-Books'
Oh she's considering it?? Gee, what with e-books taking over the marketplace and all... Good idea, J.K. ...
SUBHED: The move would transform the electronic market and add to Rowling’s already impressive net worth
While the availability of Rowling's modern classics will undoubtedly ignite tremendous sales across the board, the current e-book market does NOT need any kind of transformation. In fact, e-book Sales Continue to Break Records with +164.4 Percent Gains for 2010. In fact, self-published e-book authors are finally starting to be discovered and make real money from their work (Amanda Hocking, anyone?). Need proof? Just ask this guy.
In any case, to read more about Rowling entering the e-book world, click HERE.
Like many of my online comrades, I've decided to throw my hat into the Kindle/Nook ring with a few titles. Details to be forthcoming. I also want to apologize for my absence of late in keeping up with my blog reading. I've been keeping busy designing these covers and finding art, etc. I'm a fanatic when it comes to art. If there are 1000 pics of any given subject, I will look at each and every one of them... I hope to be back reading everyone's blogs very soon.
This is interesting and I suspect will be a problem for many of us with the advent of e-readers and tablet/pad-like browsers...
Billy Collins, one of the country's most popular poets, had never seen his work in e-book form until he recently downloaded his latest collection on his Kindle.
He was unpleasantly surprised.
"I found that even in a very small font that if the original line is beyond a certain length, they will take the extra word and have it flush left on the screen, so that instead of a three-line stanza you actually have a four-line stanza. And that screws everything up," says Collins, a former U.S. poet laureate whose "Ballistics" came out in February.
With the dropping prices of the Amazon Kindle and the Nook at Barnes & Noble, the e-reader wars are getting more competitive.
Borders is stepping up their e-reader game by rolling out the red carpet for their e-bookstore and slashing prices on all of their readers. The good news, though, is that if you want to get into the e-reader game but are a tad cash-strapped, the Libro Pro just may be what you want. It's a great, inexpensive alternative and a stupendous entry-level device chock full of features.
It ships later this month and is offered at Borders for a frugal $119 and comes with a boatload of features, namely 100 pre-loaded classics, SD card expansion slot (where you can store up to 40,000 books) and the ability to play mp3s. What's more, you can use the Libre pro for a staggering 24 hours continuously.
The Libre package comes included with a USB Cable, AC Power Adapter, hand strap, earphones and a carrying case.
To find out more about the Libre e-reader Pro, visit Borders.
UPDATE 6/22: After Barnes & Noble dropped the price of its competing Nook device, Amazon has slashed the price of its Kindle e-reader to $189, down $70 from its previous price of $259. Amazon has lowered the Kindle's price several times since it debuted in 2007 at $399. Amazon also sells a larger-screen Kindle, the Kindle DX, for $489.
Earlier today, bookseller Barnes & Noble released a new version of its Nook e-reader that supports a Wi-Fi only connection and priced at a very inexpensive $149.
In addition, it also slashed the price on its 3G Nook to $199.
This new shift in pricing means that B&N has e-reader models priced below market leader, Amazon's Kindle, which retails for $259 in its cheapest model.
Tony Astarita, vice president for digital products at Barnes & Noble.com, the new Nook was built in response to customer feedback and market research.
He said that the new model is targeted at someone who may be a solid reader with a Wi-Fi availability at home or outside the home (like a Starbucks or Panera Cafe) and not so much a mobile a traveler who may need a 3G connection.
At $149, the new Wi-Fi Nook is competitive with the Sony Pocket Reader and the Kobe e-reader from competing mega-bookseller Borders. However, neither of those competing readers support Wi-Fi and the Sony product has only a five-inch screen compared to a six-inch display for the Nook.
Upping the ante is the fact that B&N offers free Wi-Fi access within its stores and allows Nook users to read any electronic book without purchasing it (within brick and mortar stores) as well as offer free content and coupon deals.
Other notable Nook features include the lending of books between almost any e-reader users. "Our strategy is any book, any time, any place," Astarita told PC World.
Plus, the new reader is a half ounce lighter than its heftier 3G kin and has a white, rather than gray, back panel.
Both Nooks offers complementary access to some 20,000 AT&T wireless hotspots across the country.
So the question remains, will this be a game changer for the e-reader market? Or with Apple's potent iPad, will this new Nook be as relevant as a Palm Pilot in a Smartphone world?
The device is expected to be available at the end of the week.
A comprehensive list of e-reader prices are available after the jump
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