December 4, 2009 | Posted by Mark Some of the most interesting blog and website posts that I came across this week: Cory Doctorow is serializing a short story Martian Chronicles, that he is working on – quite interesting to do this with a WIP. Scott Marlowe explains how to self-publish your own e-book – part 1 of a series of posts. [...]
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Tags: Cory Doctorow, E-book, Fiction, Martian Chronicles, Short story | 
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December 2, 2009 | Posted by Mark Then they will need to come down in price and also be available in more user-friendly readers, such as the Apple Tablet. This is according to a survey of UK publishers and booksellers carried out by The Bookseller. I think this has got to be a bare minimum before e-books can seriously gain any penetration [...]
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November 24, 2009 | Posted by Mark The fuss being made by trade publishers over e-books should really be put in perspective: Over the next four years, Greco predicts these drivers, among others, will result in the US market for professional and scholarly ebooks growing by 94% to $2.60 billion. During the same period, he forecasts that the trade book sector will [...]
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November 18, 2009 | Posted by Mark Random House announced that they had increased their e-book sales 400% in the first half of 2009 thanks to e-book sales of Dan Brown‘s The Lost Symbol. However, despite this made up only 5% of book sales – more than for most books, but less than the hype surrounding e-books would suggest. Meanwhile in the [...]
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November 10, 2009 | Posted by Mark My local library service, Hertfordshire Libraries, has recently begun a service that allows users to download free e-books and audio books. I was quite startled and pleasantly surprised that they are doing this. For audio books it’s great, because these usually cost £2-3 to rent out for three weeks. I’m not as bothered about e-books, [...]
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