Another change in the world of ePublishing, and therefore eBook delivery and availability, is bringing ebooks closer to the masses.
Cost is often a reason for the success and/or failure of eBooks. Readers, distribution, readability are only a few of the issues affected by cost. Now an Australian software company is releasing a product that promises to streamline the cost and time of converting pdf to a common ePub standard.
For more details here’s the link:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6696787.html
And Dan Brown’s newest release - The Lost Symbol - is causing a price war among eBook releases as Amazon makes it available for a low price on the Kindle.
For more info go to:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125297229016310315.html?mod=rss_Books
And on the multimedia/marketing front, thriller novelist Clyde Ford has taken the audio/visual book trailer concept to a new level. Here’s the link for more information:
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6601539.html?rssid=192
Move over Oprah? Well, maybe not. Bin Laden is now coming out with his own booklist and endorsements. Hummm! It will be interesting to see what affect this has.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/bin-ladens-reading-list-for-americans/?hp
And Google launches a new way to read the news - Fast Flip.
http://mashable.com/2009/09/14/google-fast-flip/
What I believe this is telling us as writers is that more and more consumers of the written word are wanting it faster, more entertaining on a multimedia level, and via more of the technological gadgets that are available. The printed version will always be in demand, but like the US Mail, publishers will have to adapt to a change in the level of demand for the analog version of the written word as digital versions become more prevalent.
We should all stay tuned to the wild and exciting world of publishing and marketing.
Last night I had a long conversation with someone I hadn't talked to for over a year--we were talking about mysteries and I mentioned my Kindle.
She wanted to know what that was. Said she'd never heard of it. This woman has an important job for the state (California) so maybe the Kindle is not quite as popular as well thought.
Marilyn
http://fictionforyou.com
And just yesterday, hubby was asking me about e-readers, because he's starting to go electronic with so many of his scientific journal subscriptions and doesn't want to be tied to a computer to read them.
And just yesterday, hubby was asking me about e-readers, because he's starting to go electronic with so many of his scientific journal subscriptions and doesn't want to be tied to a computer to read them.
The times are changing, aren't they?
It's good to have your book on as much media as you can.
Morgan Mandel
http://morganmandel.blogspot.com
news flash -- Dan Brown's new title Symbols on Kindle is outselling its hardcover counterpart, this according to KindleKorner folks chatting it up.
We've seen ebooks come a lONG way since early Stephen King experiments.
I just put up my tenth title on Kindle, a paranormal police procedureal with romance and intruge called ABADDON - Book of Revelation...and yeah it has a monster in it. The title selling the most of the ten is my How To on writing - Dead On Writing.
At several book signings now Miranda and I have both been asked by patrons, "Is your book on Kindle?" and we both can reply with a resounding "YES."
rob