Ebooks and e-publishing

Link to website: – Ebook week –

And a great list of sources for ebooks: – Ebook week partners –

This time, it’s from a blog I follow called – Psychotactics –, and it’s using the Christmas day Amazon.com stats (the day that ebooks first outstripped tree-books in unit sales terms. This wasn’t in terms of revenue, because as I blogged before, an enormous number of the ebooks downloaded for Kindle were free, or very low cost.

Picture the scene – all across America, gift wrapping was torn asunder, and Kindle boxes were excitedly opened. So the first thing everyone wants to do is to start filling the things up with books. At a price point of $0.00, it’s just so darned tempting to download everything you can see. It’s a bit like an “all-you-can-eat” buffet breakfast.

It’s an interesting blog post though. Have a read through it – HERE –. Like me, they consider the announcement of the – Apple iPad – to be hugely significant, which will propel electronic reading forwards, and maybe even help the uptake of rich media content.

Another interesting post from J A Konrath – HERE –

He discusses ebooks and pricing and piracy.

JK is an ebook convert. He sells lots of them via Amazon in the USA. I think he gets it. He’s one of the few.

Interesting article – HERE –

My response was as follows:

Fascinating article. Thanks for the read.

I agree with you. Although the technically astute are scratching their heads, wondering where the iPad (et al) fits in with their current devices, those who are aware of the psychological impact of this new device (and the fact that it was made by Apple) can foresee a rosy future. Now all we need is for the publishing industry to get on board, and embrace the technology, rather than hide behind protectionist defences like music publishers tried to.