Win a $100 ebook voucher for Read an Ebook Week
Posted on 11. Mar, 2010 by JD in AU, News, UK, blog
OK, so I've been a touch slow off the mark for Read an Ebook Week.
What? You didn't know? Yep, during March 7-13, dedicated ebookers across the interweb have been promoting the glories of ereading.
So I thought, just to keep the excitement at fever pitch,
I'm giving away $100 in ebooks (in the form of a gift [...]
New ebook reader out of Taiwan – Taipower K6
Posted on 27. Feb, 2010 by JD in News, blog
The Taiwan Power company has just announced their second ebook reader. The K6 has a 6″ E-ink screen, nad is reported to be more capable than Taipower’s first e-reader, the K3. There is no word yet on price or availability, but one company spokesman has said that the timetable is “soon”.
It has the page turn [...]
Australia to get iPad 3G first, giggling starts
Posted on 25. Feb, 2010 by JD in AU, News, blog, iPad
As we reported in January, the iPad will be lobbing in Australia in late March for those of us media types – grin – who get a test-drive, with a general release in April.
What we didn’t know is that we’d be getting the 3G version straight up! Tasty.
As Australian Personal Computer mag reports the local [...]
The Cheap-arse Tuesday Couponathon!
Posted on 23. Feb, 2010 by JD in Discounts, blog
Behold – its discount time, cheap-seekers … Here are this week’s coupons:
$3 Clearance books Available from eCampus.com
eBooks.com Buy One, Get One Free!
Get 20% Off Featured Authors at Ebooks.com!!!
$8 Deals! – Get Great Digital Magazines for Just 8 Bucks
Single eTextBook Chapters as low as $1.99
Save 50% on college textbooks, download immediately
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Ebook piracy is good? My response to the howls of protest
Posted on 22. Feb, 2010 by JD in News, UK, blog
After publishing a post from The Guardian in the UK about how ebook piracy hardly exists at this point, but is probably inevitable, and may be a necessary evil to force us to rethink publishing, I have been deluged by howls of protest. Fair enough – you can find some of them in the comments [...]
Publishers (still) fighting basic ebook economics
Posted on 22. Feb, 2010 by JD in News, blog
Via www. Techdirt.com
From the fighting-basic-economics-is-never-a-good-idea dept…
For a while now, we’ve been discussing how the pricing on ebooks doesn’t make much sense, and almost certainly needs to fall. Like many industries, the book business could learn a lot from other businesses that have realized that drastically lowering the price on digital goods can massively increase sales, [...]
Will Kindle apps kill off the device?
Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by JD in News, blog, iPad, kindle
A day after the Kindle app lobbed onto the Blackberry (in the US only – hear the teeth gnashing elsewhere around the world?), it’s time to ask whether Amazon is in danger of apping themselves out of the Kindle hardware business. If that’s their goal, I think they’re heading in the right direction.
Let me explain: [...]
Amazon Wants To Give A Free Kindle To All Amazon Prime Subscribers
Posted on 15. Feb, 2010 by JD in News, blog, kindle
via TechCrunch by Michael Arrington on 12/02/10
In January Amazon offered select customers a free Kindle of sorts – they had to pay for it, but if they didn’t like it they could get a full refund and keep the device. It turns out that was just a test run for a much more ambitious program. [...]
Ebook discount roundup – February
Posted on 12. Feb, 2010 by JD in AU, Discounts, News, UK, blog
This month’s discount coupons from the world of ebooks. Discounts apply regardless of geo-restriction. Also, if you are very good friends with someone in the US, you can access all titles. (Disclosure: some are afilliate links. Please help out.)
Kobo Books
$US1.50 off all eBook titles – Discount Code: Buck50
Go get it – expires Feb 28
$US1.50 off [...]
Win a Kindle this month
Posted on 08. Feb, 2010 by JD in News, blog, kindle
Another Aussie (some would say competing) blog/site is running a competition to win a brand new Kindle. All you need to do is sign up for their email newsletter before the end of the month.
Two reasons why I shouldn’t have told you this:
1. It reduces my chances of winning (yes, I have one, but I [...]
