This is pretty cool!Thanks to Liz Mills for the link.
Nail Your Novel: a free ebook
Roz Morris, a novelist, ghostwriter and freelancer, has an e-book called Nail Your Novel. You can download it free here.
The ebook platform for kids?
GalleyCat had this fascinating item about the Nintendo DS (a new version of it, anyway). The thing to note here is that this particular toy is the iPhone/Holy Grail/fetish object of the 5-and-up set. It could have huge implications for children's books:Retailing for $189.99 and coming in both burgundy and bronze editions, the Nintendo DSi... Continue Reading →
Publishers delay ebook releases
The Wall Street Journal reports that HarperCollins has joined the ebook-delay bandwagon. They're experimenting with a four-week to six-month lag after the release of hardbacks as a way of protesting Amazon's $9.99 price. Publishers say this is below cost, and it's almost certainly behind the $9.99 price on hardbacks we've been seeing at some discount... Continue Reading →
Happy Friday: here’s some Neil Gaiman for you
I'd call this a YA picture e-book--what about you?
Another ebook distributor
Publishers Weekly has a piece about iStoryTime, a new company that brings children's books to the iPhone. Books by "new" authors are the only ones available, the company founder said, because he didn't think the big publishers would be willing to distribute their books on this platform. Now that the company is getting more publicity,... Continue Reading →
Are libraries (and books) endangered species?
Here's an interesting speech about how one headmaster wants to evolve a school library. He talks a bit about books and their history, imagining here we're still in 1439, when manuscripts were copied by hand:I want to tell you about this wonderful scriptorium that we have at Cushing Academy in 1439. We have scribes working... Continue Reading →
Ebook Releases: Thoughts from a Publisher
Booksquare has this post from Dominique Raccah, Publisher and CEO of Sourcebooks, explaining how one publisher looks at e-books and considers the timing of their release.We are at the beginning of model building. If hot frontlist titles are to be available in e-formats, they need to be priced by the publisher, at a reasonable discount... Continue Reading →