The Wall Street Journal offers more insight into the goals of Indigo’s Shortcovers and what it offers readers.
Free Books on Your Phone: TextNovel
If you’re an author looking for readers, a publisher looking for talent, or a booklover looking for a new way to find books and read them, might be worth checking out the beta site textnovel.Do Ads Belong in Books?
After Daily Lit’s decision to start including ads in their serialized books, discussion about whether or not ads belong in books began again in earnest.
Plastic Logic Reader up Close and Personal
A curious gadget lover from PDAToday has posted a video of the Plastic Logic reader prototype up close and personal. From CES 2009:
Looking to EPUB?
For those publishes and authors out there who have thought about making a digital version of their work(s) available you might be interested in having a look at eCub…
Indigo to Launch Shortcovers
Indigo’s eReading venture, Shortcovers is set to launch at the end of the month. Over at Index//MB, Mark Bertils’ shares his first reactions.
Music Sales Increase Thanks to Digital
Mr. Postman, Bring Me a Book
In this age of email, texts and other non-tangible communiques, I doubt I’m alone in finding happiness when something is mailed to my abode that is not a) a bill b) a flyer for some terrifying new delivery place opening in my neighbourhood. My happiness increases 10-fold when that thing is reading material that I’ve been anxiously anticipating.
As of now, I subscribe only to magazines but when I saw Publishers Weekly story on the new subscription model being tried by Open Letter Books, my eyes did that cartoon poppy-outy thing. Subscription to an entire list? How awesome is that.
