Saturday 25 May 2013

How a third of bestselling ebooks cost MORE than the same title in hardback

Consumers say that electronic versions should be cheaper because they cost nothing to produce
Ebooks make up around 15 per cent of books sold in the UK

HOW THE PRICES COMPARE...

The Casual Vacancy, JK Rowling, Kindle price: £11.99 Hardback: £9

Chronicles Of Downton Abbey, Kindle price: £12.99 Hardback: £10

David Mitchell: Back Story, David Mitchell, Kindle price: £12.99 Hardback price: £10

Between The Lines, Victoria Pendleton, Kindle: £12.99 Hardback: £12

The Life, Martina Cole, Kindle price: £10.99 Hardback price: £9

The Kingmaker’s Daughter, Philippa Gregory, Kindle price: £9.99 Hardback price: £8.86

Friday 24 May 2013

The Price of e-Books

A US judge is confident that government evidence will prove Apple knowingly participated in a conspiracy to raise the price of ebooks, ahead of a trial due to start next month.

US District Judge Denise Cole is set to oversee the trial starting 3 June and this week gave her views during a pretrial hearing, and although she stressed her tentative view was not final, she believes the US government can prove Apple engaged in a price-raising conspiracy with five book publishers.

Apple is the sole remaining defendant in the case, after the five publishers accused of colluding with Apple to set ebook prices all settled with the US Department of Justice.

"I believe that the government will be able to show at trial direct evidence that Apple knowingly participated in and facilitated a conspiracy to raise prices of ebooks, and that the circumstantial evidence in this case, including the terms of the agreements, will confirm this," Cote said.

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/470945/20130524/apple-ebook-price-fixing-judge-comment-blow.htm

Penguin pays $75m to settle ebook price-fixing case

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/23/penguin_agrees_to_pay_75m_ebooks/

Wednesday 15 May 2013

The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.

From http://www.ereadingtrends.com/the-great-gatsby-ebook-is-free-dont-waste-money-buying-it/

The Great Gatsby eBook is Free – Don’t Waste Money Buying It!

Published May 12, 2013

It irritates me to no end when I see big companies trying to capitalize off of a book being turned into a movie so they can rake in every little cent that they can squeeze out of consumers.

Unfortunately that is the case with The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Ever since it has been turned into a movie, ebookstores everywhere are trying to make as much money as possible off of what is a public domain ebook that is freely available (in most countries except the U.S.) to anyone who knows where to get it.

At Amazon, The Great Gatsby is currently the #1 bestseller in the Kindle store. That shows just how popular the ebook is right now. Amazon is charging $4.99, which isn’t half as bad as B&N who is selling it for a ridiculous $10.93. Sony has it for $9.62 and Kobo has it for $7.99. In my opinion that is way too much to pay for an ebook, much less one that was published in 1925 and is now in the public domain.

None of those ebookstores want you to know that you can simply go to Feedbooks.com and download The Great Gatsby for free in ePub, Mobi (for Kindle), and PDF formats. What I like about Feedbooks is their ebooks are nicely formatted, so there’s no reason to go spend $5-$10 elsewhere.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that everyone is trying to cash in on the success of the movie, but I still don’t like it. The same thing happened to George Martin’s A Game of Thrones, which used to sell for $6.99 in ebook form until HBO started airing the Game of Thrones TV series. Then it shot up to $9.99 and has remained there ever since.

The Great Gatsby eBook is Free – Don’t Waste Money Buying It! | The eBook Reader Blog.

http://www.feedbooks.com/book/5543/the-great-gatsby

Tuesday 14 May 2013

Dan Brown - Inferno

If you like Dan Brown – I don’t! If you have read one you have read them all.

This was obviously written with the hope it would become a movie!

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Sunday 12 May 2013

John Sandford - Silken Prey

The behind-the-scenes shenanigans of the political class provide a grim reminder: power is not only a potent aphrodisiac it is a motive for murder. It's Davenport's job to unravel an ugly scenario of blackmail and murder without a scandal before an important election.

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Thursday 9 May 2013

Jodi Picoult - Nineteen Minutes

In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that often instigates the harassment. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling’s residents.

Even those who were not inside the school that morning find their lives in an upheaval, including Alex Cormier. The superior court judge assigned to the Houghton case, Alex—whose daughter, Josie, witnessed the events that unfolded—must decide whether or not to step down. She’s torn between presiding over the biggest case of her career and knowing that doing so will cause an even wider chasm in her relationship with her emotionally fragile daughter. Josie, meanwhile, claims she can’t remember what happened in the last fatal minutes of Peter’s rampage. Or can she? And Peter’s parents, Lacy and Lewis Houghton, ceaselessly examine the past to see what they might have said or done to compel their son to such extremes. Nineteen Minutes also features the return of two of Jodi Picoult’s characters—defense attorney Jordan McAfee from The Pact and Salem Falls, and Patrick DuCharme, the intrepid detective introduced in Perfect Match.

Rich with psychological and social insight, Nineteen Minutes is a riveting, poignant, and thought-provoking novel that has at its center a haunting question. Do we ever really know someone?

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