Amazon’s strategy of pegging the price of Kindle books at $ 9.99 or lower has resulted in some tough negotiations with the major publishing houses. Recently, this even resulted in the brief removal of books by publishing giant McMillan from the Amazon website. McMillan books are now being sold on the Amazon site, and they [...]
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May 4th, 2010
Big Publishing Firms Need To Take Care Not to Alienate E-Book Reader Users
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Comments Off March 5th, 2010
Nineteenth Century Classic Books To Be Made Available In Free Digital Format
guest Posted in Uncategorized Tags: amazon kindle, books, british library, e-books, ebooks, hobbies, internet archive, reading Comments Off Starting in spring 2010, Amazon Kindle users will be able to download over 65,000 19th century classic books that will have the look of a first edition for free. The novels of such famous authors as Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens will be electronically stored using the original illustrations and type face to [...]
November 14th, 2009
The Story Behind Dr. Who & Its Audiobooks
guest Posted in Uncategorized Tags: Art, Arts and Entertainment, audio, books, doctor who, Doctor Who Audio, Doctor Who Audio Books, dr. who, entertainment, serials, series, television, Torchwood, tv, video Comments Off Just about everyone in countries like the UK, US, Canada, New Zeeland and Australia etc should have at least heard of the world famous science Fiction series DW from the BBC! Now that Doctor Who is back on television since 2005 after it’s 15yr absence the series has gotten very popular again, so mush so [...]
