KISS my eBook royalites (Keep It Simple, Stupid)
It’s an overused phrase, but one that we have used to avoid the growing pains that the new eBook world is creating for royalties. We think we’ve cracked the payment issue on eBook royalties for our...
View ArticleKobo – reaches markets others don’t reach?
We’re seven months into selling eBooks through Kobo and we report back on whether or not new markets have opened up for us.read more
View ArticleGlobal Rights Trading Platform Will Prove A Godsend For Small Publishers
You know that feeling when you see a new innovation that is so blindingly simple (and important) a concept that you kick yourself for not thinking of it. Well, I had that feeling when I came across a...
View ArticleBlogs now more influential than journalists
If you watched the coverage of London Fashion Week yesterday on SKY News, you will have witnessed the tipping point for that industry as an editor from a leading blog was a lead live interview in the...
View ArticleKindle Fire is a true iPad rival, but an eReader it ain’t
A quick straw poll on the train in the morning heading into London and in a carriage packed with 60 people there are close to ¾ of them with an electronic device, 10 reading the Metro free paper and...
View ArticleReview of eBook with embedded 3D Video
If you had told me even a year ago that we would start to see books with embedded 3D video before Christmas 2011, then even an enthusiast like me would have said you were a few cards short of a deck -...
View ArticleKobo Strengthened by Rakuten Acquisition for $315m
The news today that eCommerce giant Rakuten is to acquire Kobo Books for $315m lifts Kobo into the big leagues alongside Amazon and Barnes and Noble.Rakuten are a big Japanese player in eCommerce with...
View ArticleThe Paperback is Dead - Long Live The Paperback
Textr Beagle enters the ebook reader market with an £8 device, Kindle has a gorgeous new version, Nook comes to the UK. Is that the last death throes of the paperback we hear? Nah.read more
View ArticleAdvantage Amazon As Apple Fans Get Angry
In a week where Apple fans have got angry on the blogs, Amazon appeared to have scored lots of points in the small tablet war. However, dig a little deeper and it was not necessarily the high price tag...
View ArticleKindle and Nook dominate as iMacPad dwindles
The 2014 results are in and Apple’s iMacPad has for the first time dropped out of the top three ebook devices globally. It was a close run thing with readers finally focussing all their attention on...
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