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Briefly Noted | Kobo’s iOS app loses ‘buy’ option — EBOOK MAGAZINE

July 25, 2011 – 8:59 am

Pad and iPhone users who buy books from Kobo will no longer be able to purchase titles from within the app as Kobo becomes the latest retailer to fall into line with Apple’s new sales rules.Earlier this year Apple announced it would no longer approve apps which redirected sales out of the app and into the devices’s web browser unless the app also allowed in-app purchasing via iTunes.

via Kobo’s iOS app loses ‘buy’ option — EBOOK MAGAZINE.

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Briefly Noted | Barnes and Noble Starts Nook Color eBook Publishing for Kids | Suite101.com

July 13, 2011 – 8:28 am

On July 12, 2011, Barnes and Noble announced a new way for kids and teen authors to create color ebooks. Barnes and Noble already has a platform that kids can use to write and illustrate books, and then the books are published in an elementary sense. The Real Books by Real Kids program is closer to a traditional publishing experience, or at least traditional in the relatively young world of electronic book publishing.

Real Books by Real Kids eBook Publishing Program

Like the universe itself, the world digital media is expanding at an accelerated pace. Amazon bought Create Space and opened the floodgates to Kindle Direct Publishing, and Barnes and Noble responded with the similar upload-and-convert process with PubIt! electronic book publishing. The Real Books by Real Kids digital book publishing platform is different. The ebooks are created and designed through the Tikatok Nook App.

via Barnes and Noble Starts Nook Color eBook Publishing for Kids | Suite101.com.

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Briefly Noted | iPads, eBooks and T.S.Eliot | Bryan Appleyard

June 28, 2011 – 10:08 am

Still, given that nobody knows anything, what is going to happen in these next five years?

George Walkley laughs at the question. “Anyone who claims to know that is either a liar or a fool, but over the next two years or so, I think we can look at a situation where ebooks represent about 30% of the market.”

Walkley is head of digital for Hachette UK, which includes Orion, Headline and Little, Brown. He accepts that publishers face a huge challenge, but it all depends on what you mean by “publisher”.

“At one level, there will be a huge increase in the number of publishers. A lot of them are going to be one-man bands, a lot of them are going to be people operating out of the spare bedroom. At the same time, there will still be publishers in the conventional sense of the word. I think what we are going to see is a larger, more diverse publishing scene and a more diverse notion of what a publisher is.”

via iPads, eBooks and T.S.Eliot | Bryan Appleyard.

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Briefly Noted | Random House Buys Digital Agency With Mobile Focus

May 6, 2011 – 8:45 am

The digital agency has 70 employees and counts Disney, Mattel, Nickelodeon, Hasbro, GE, and Microsoft among its clients. Smashing Ideas will continue serving those clients, and will remain a standalone shop. “The beauty of it for us is [Bertelsmann] leaves all of their acquisition companies fairly independent. We will retain our independence as a standalone company,” he said. Jackson added that no changes to staff, office locations or management are planned as a result of the deal.

When ClickZ News asked whether Jackson anticipates tie-ins between current clients and Bertelsmann properties, he said, “It makes total sense. Its something we would love to explore.”

via Random House Buys Digital Agency With Mobile Focus | ClickZ.

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Briefly Noted | Pearson on collision course with Apple over app terms | Media | guardian.co.uk

March 1, 2011 – 9:09 am

Financial Times owner Pearson has put itself on a collision course with Apple over the onerous terms it is demanding for print app subscriptions, with chief executive Marjorie Scardino arguing that as competition increases publishers will no longer have to cave-in.Earlier this month Apple announced a new subscription service for magazines, newspapers and music bought through its app store, but offered tough terms including keeping 30% of subscription revenues and retaining control of customer information.

via Pearson on collision course with Apple over app terms | Media | guardian.co.uk.

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Briefly Noted | Go To Hellman: How Apple May Inadvertently Boost eBook Linking

February 16, 2011 – 10:56 am

Since EPUB3 is based on HTML5, all the outbound linking that you would expect from a web page is already built into EPUB3 (as well as earlier versions of EPUB). Ebook reader apps available on iOS and Android use the “Webkit” webpage renderer for ebooks in EPUB. (Kindle devices use Webkit to render web pages and WebKit is used by Amazon to render Kindle ebooks (in mobi format) on  hardware other than their own.) So it’s clear to me, at least, that even if ebook reader apps can’t have “Kindle Store” buttons, the apps will be able to present “Kindle Store” links inside the ebook content. I’ll bet you anything that Amazon is loading up ebook content with Kindle Store links: “If you like this book, perhaps you’d like this one”. They’ll even have specialized shop-books containing Kindle store links available for free. Ditto the others.

via Go To Hellman: How Apple May Inadvertently Boost eBook Linking.

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Google Ebooks Launches In United States

December 7, 2010 – 8:38 am

Google has launched its ebook offering in the USA. The service, previously called Google Editions, has been renamed Google Ebooks.

Google Ebooks promotes a vision of cloud based storage of ebooks that allows the user to read a purchased book on any device with an internet connection. The platform allows synching of books across multiple devices.

The site offers downloadable apps for Android and Apple devices as well as B&N’s Nook and Sony’s Reader devices. For now, these apps are not available outside of the US (unless readers have US iTunes or other app store accounts).

It offers readers a range of free public domain and free view titles and a selection of new releases and in copyright works. The company claims to have some ’3 million free ebooks and hundreds of thousands of titles that are ready for purchase.’

The titles on offer are a mix of those scanned as part of Google’s digitization program and title submitted by publishers who are members of Google’s partner program.

For now, only US readers can buy New York Times Bestsellers and other recent paid titles, but those outside of the US have to the free and public domain titles.

Google aims to launch Google ebooks outside of the USA in the first quarter of 2011 though as with Apple’s iBookstore, this may mean that the UK and other territories get access to paid for titles on a rolling schedule while other territories have access to only the free titles.

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Links

Daily Links 03/08/2010

August 3, 2010 – 3:23 pm

One Thousand Casmurros from LiveAD on Vimeo.

This is, I think you will agree, pretty cool!

A review of Hypothermia by Arnaldur Indridason (Harvill Secker 2009; 2007 Icelandic)
Great review for Arnaldur Indridason’s Hypothermia
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Amazon sells out of both Kindles days after launch
Quite a feat!
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Odyssey not commercial, says Makinson
Yes with a but!
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Amazon claims to have 70-80% of e-book market
Which in many ways demonstrates that the market is changing rapidly. Last year it would surely have been 90-95%.
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Want to choose your own adventure? There’s a books app for that
This is a nice development
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E-books to account for 10% of RH US sales, says Dohle
That’s a huge figure!
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The Checklist Manifesto
Nice note this from Raven Books
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Sunday Tribune Paperbacks Tom Widger
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Review: A Mobile Fortune: The Life and Times of Denis O’Brien by Siobhan Creaton
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Review: Dancing Prest by Aidan O’Connor
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Review: The Passage by Justin Cronin
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Review: Broken by Karin Slaughter
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Review: Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis Complex bu Eoin Colfer
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Ten years of publishing worth its Salt
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Summer Fun at Scariff Library
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Dún Laoghaire Festival of World Cultures
They’ve used the cover for one of the first books I published!
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Sixties Fishing Guides
These are excellent
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Book launch: Executed for Ireland
Executed for Ireland: The Patrick Moran Story by May Moran was recently launched in King House, Boyle, Co Roscommon and in Kilmainham Jail.
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DLR LIBRARY BLOG
Two reviews from DLR Libraries today!
MAGIC UNIVERSE BY NIGEL CALDER.
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THE SLAP BY CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS
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Books & Authors

How To Buy Books On The iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone in Ireland (Or Get Them Free)

July 24, 2010 – 4:37 pm

For more information on iPad/iPhone and iPod Touch reading apps try Robert Maguire’s long review post on some of the freely available iPad book Apps.

These apps allow readers to download books to their iPads and read them. Nearly all of them offer works for free that are currently in the Public Domain (That is books that have either been published by authors who have died before 1939 as copyright extends for the life of the author plus seventy years or books that have been placed in the public domain by their authors for a variety of reasons).

If Irish readers wish to buy books however, other than as stand alone apps, which IS currently possible directly though the iPad App Store, then they will need to buy them in Apps other than iBooks.

The Kindle App for iPad is currently in the top Twenty free apps and it offers books for free and for purchase. Kobo also offers books for sale. Both require credit cards as does an iTunes account so that might present problems.

Direct downloads from these apps however take only seconds once a book is purchased. Both also allow for preview sections to be sent to a device and Amazon’s Kindle in particular has a good online account for managing your purchases and previews and re-sending them if needs be.

All told, Kindle is the clear winner in terms of selection and pricing though Kobo is a good performer and some may prefer the apps design clarity and presentation which is slightly sharper on the iPod Touch than the Kindle App.

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iPad Launch News

iBooks Is The Number One Free iPad App In Ireland

July 24, 2010 – 2:27 pm

This morning iBooks is the number one free iPad App in Ireland.

Amazon’s Kindle for iPad app, at number eleven is just outside the top ten free Apps.

The Elements: A Visual Exploration published by Touch Press is the top ranked paid book app at number 15 in the overall list of paid apps.

Drilling down to the paid apps in the book section, The Elements: A Visual Exploration is at number one, the full version of Disney’s toy Story Read Along App at number two, Alice for the iPad at number three, Self Help Classics at number four and The Cat In The Hat by Dr. Seuss at number five.

iBooks is joined by the Kindle App, Marvel Comics App, Toy Story Read Along App and the Free Books App in the top five free book apps.

For more on reading and book apps, read Robert Maguire’s post from yesterday: To E Or Not To E: A Beginner’s Guide To iPad Ereading Apps.

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