Introducing the Kindle Flare
by Michael Sauers • July 29, 2014 • ebooks, Fun, video • 0 Comments
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Who’s stealing eBooks? (Infographic)
by Michael Sauers • July 24, 2014 • ebooks • 0 Comments
Publishers Still Don’t Understand What Douglas Adams Knew About Ebooks in 1979
by Michael Sauers • July 22, 2014 • Books, ebooks • 0 Comments
So, with all that technology has to offer now, why am I reading a science-fiction novel about an electronic book in an electronic format that pretends to be a paperback? Read the full article @ The Huffington Post (UK).
Read more →Close The Libraries And Buy Everyone An Amazon Kindle Unlimited Subscription
by Michael Sauers • July 18, 2014 • ebooks, Libraries • 0 Comments
Tim Worstall get’s to claim “first” on this idea. I wonder who’ll be second. Let’s just close down the lending libraries and buy every citizen an Amazon Kindle Unlimited subscription. I’ll use the numbers from my native UK here simply because I have a better grasp of them. As a country we spend some...
Read more →Amazon vs. Hachette: I’m sorry, I’m confused…who’s the bad guy again?
by Michael Sauers • July 7, 2014 • ebooks, Politics & Law • 0 Comments
Hachette wants Amazon to have to submit to the no-discount policy of agency model pricing, knowing full well that Apple is legally bound to not enter into that agreement and can therefore discount ebooks all it wants to. Amazon will be held to whatever price Hachette decides to charge, while Apple can set its...
Read more →That’s one way to back up your eBooks
by Michael Sauers • June 25, 2014 • Books, ebooks • 0 Comments
“E-Book Backup” is England’s playful counter to Amazon and the DMCA, as well as an invitation for all of us to reexamine our ideas of ownership in digital space. The convenience of cheap and easy cloud storage is appealing, but we must ask ourselves: with these systems, what do we really own and control? While...
Read more →Another view on the Amazon/Hachette battle
by Michael Sauers • June 20, 2014 • Books, ebooks • 0 Comments
I don’t agree with everything Hugh has to say on this issue but he’s definitely got a few things right and there’s plenty more to consider. For example: A few weeks ago, I speculated that Hachette might be fighting Amazon for the power to price e-books where they saw fit, or what is known as Agency pricing....
Read more →Tuesday Tech Tip: Editing ePub files
by Michael Sauers • June 17, 2014 • ebooks • 0 Comments
The moment I figured out that ePub files are actually just a zip file full of HTML, CSS, and image files, it felt like something in my world just shifted a few degrees off it’s axis. Today’s tip is for those looking to edit or create from scratch their own ePub files. Head on...
Read more →eBooks & eReaders: Past, Present, & Future
by Michael Sauers • May 1, 2014 • ebooks, Tech • 0 Comments
eBooks & eReaders: Past, Present, & Future from Michael Sauers Presented at the Michigan Small & Rural Libraries Conference, Mackinac Island, MI, 1 May 2014
Read more →Friday Video: Library As Publisher
by Michael Sauers • April 25, 2014 • ebooks, Libraries • 0 Comments
