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Audible’s new Series View feature

Richard — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:12:28 +0000

Audible.com has improved the way in which audiobooks are displayed on its site to make following a series of books much easier. With the new Series View feature, information like the order of the books in the series, which ones are available as audiobooks and which ones are not, how many titles are in the series and much more can be easily seen at a glance.

Okay, so why am I writing about this? Because Audible is owned by Amazon and I’m hoping that this is a portent of things soon to come to the Kindle Store. Discovering which book comes next in a series is often so difficult at the Kindle Store that it is usually better to to do the research elsewhere (like at Barnes & Noble) first so you can forearm yourself with intel on the book sequence before shopping there.

This has always been perplexing to me, as Amazon is normally so very good at creating a user friendly shopping experience.

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Overstock selling Nook Books

Richard — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:12:23 +0000

Thanks to a partnership with Barnes & Noble, Overstock is now selling Nook Books via a new ebookstore powered by B&N. Overstock claims to be the number one seller of refurbished Nook Color ereaders, which it has been selling for awhile.

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Google Books now accepting pre-orders

Richard — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:02:31 +0000

One feature that was lacking in the Google eBookstore was the ability to pre-order an upcoming title. That has been remedied and you can now order titles before their release. Customer’s credit cards are not charged until the ebook is released and a notification is sent out letting purchasers know that their ebook is ready for download.

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A new $15 per month PD ebook and audiobook service

Richard — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 17:27:16 +0000

AllYouCanBooks.com is a new subscription service that gives you unlimited access to a collection of 30,000 public domain ebooks and downloadable audiobooks. The charge for all this goodness is $14.99 per month.

There is no reason to pay someone $15 per month for access to these titles. They are widely available for free. It may be worthwhile to pay something for a PD title if the formatting has been cleaned up and a nice cover provided, but there is no mention of that being done here. I also have no problem with paying for an author’s complete collected works, as it is often more convenient than tracking down everything.

See the eBook Sources page for free sources for these books. If you want to pay something for them, donate $15 per month to Project Gutenberg. For audio versions, see LibriVox, which has a number of free audiobook versions of the classics that have been read by volunteers.

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Google ebooks now available in Australia

Richard — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:50:49 +0000

Yesterday the Google eBookstore launched an Australian branch. Local brick and mortar bookstores that will also be offering the Google eBooks via their websites include Booktopia and Dymocks.

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Google eBooks now available to Canadian readers

Richard — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:58:55 +0000

Google has launched a Canadian branch of the Google eBooks store. Google has partnered with both Canadian and international publishers and the Canadian store launches with hundreds of thousands of paid titles in addition to a couple million free public domain titles. Google eBooks will also be available through some Canadian booksellers such as Campus eBookstore and McNally Robinson.

Google eBooks should work on any device that can read ePub with Adobe DRM, including tablets and various dedicated ereaders.

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Google eBooks now available in UK

Richard — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:43:39 +0000

The Google eBookstore has just opened its virtual doors to customers in the UK. Readers in the UK can now purchase Google eBooks and read them on any device that is compatible with Adobe Digital Editions. As in the US, brick and mortar bookstores will also be able to sell Google eBooks — Blackwell’s will be one of the Google eBookstore’s affiliate partners.

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Google adapts to Apple’s rules

Richard — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 03:55:27 +0000

Tonight Google sent out an email pertaining to Google Books on the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. While purchasing ebooks from the Google eBookstore from within the Google Books iOS app is no longer possible thanks to Apple’s current rules (which would require Google to pay Apple 30 percent of all in-app sales), by following the instructions in the email you can install an icon on your homescreen that will take you directly to the Google bookstore via Safari:

Open your Safari web browser

Go to the address: books.google.com/ebooks

Tap the bookmark symbol at the top (box with an outgoing arrow)

Tap "Add to Home Screen"

Tap "Add"

To shop at the Google eBookstore, simply tap the bookstore icon. Any ebooks you purchase or download will automatically appear in your Google Books app for you to read.

Any ebooks you purchase will show up in your Google Books library on your iOS device or any Android devices you might have. Of course there is nothing groundbreaking here — you can add a bookmark to any Web page to the homescreen of your iPad or iPhone in the same manner.

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Sony to launch European Reader Stores

Richard — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:02:48 +0000

Sony announced today that it will be expanding its ebookstore to Europe. The first new store will launch in the UK with over 100,000 titles by the end of October, 2011. This will be followed by a Reader Store serving German and Austrian customers by the end of this year. Next year Reader Stores will be coming to France, Italy and Spain.

Here’s hoping that Sony does a better job with its European ebookstores than it has with the US version.

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Diesel eBook Store forms partnership with Macmillan

Richard — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 16:53:19 +0000

The Diesel eBook Store has formed a direct partnership with Macmillan that will enable the ebook merchant to sell the publisher’s titles directly through its online store, rather than use third-party distributers for encryption and fulfillment as it has done in the past.

From the press release:

Under the terms of the agreement, Diesel will store the digital titles of Macmillan on its own servers and provide fulfillment and encryption on orders through Adobe Content Server 4 (ACS4). A new proprietary PubDesk interface, through which the publisher can access its inventory, run reports and modify its metadata, has been created and will launch shortly.

"We are so thrilled to be working with the prestigious publisher Macmillan directly since they represent many top-notch authors that our customers love to read – authors such as Lora Leigh, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Lisa Kleypas, Robert Jordan, Orson Scott Card, Robert A. Heinlein and Jonathan Franzen, just to name a few.”

The Diesel eBook Store launched its new eBook retailing platform in December 2010 and is unique in the marketplace for their expanded categories and their ability to host customer created bundles. Their new site also boosts a suite of new features such as the “Deal of the Day”, social networking , video integration, access to over two million free eBooks via partnerships with Google and Smashwords and a new and improved search engine.