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Monthly Archives: May 2008
Weirdest Email Ever
OK, I just got something via the Munsey’s contact from an Ingram rep. A press release. Ingram Digital and Thomas Nelson have done something together that will make both of them scads of money. This is a good thing and … Continue reading
My Wife Had the Best Day Today
She went out with a friend, saw SATC, cried through most of it, then went shopping at the mall, picking up a new bag at Bloomingdale’s for our trip to Hawaii. Would’ve been cool for me, too, as I didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Odd
Tagged baseball, First Base is 90 Feet from Home Not 80 Kevin Millar, Movies, sports, Travel
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S&S Adding 5k Books to Kindle
I have no idea whether these titles are also being made available for Sony’s Reader or offered to “whoever.” A PW article doesn’t say. S&S has always had the best ebook strategy, but I don’t think they ever standardized on … Continue reading
Posted in Ebooks
Tagged .Epub, Actual Sales, Adobe, Book Expo America, Ebooks, Kindle, Simon and Schuster
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The Idiot’s True Cost
OK, so at last check Rothman was back to his gibbering self, loser of a PW job (and caught lying about how that went down), “victim” of .epub’s drop to the curb by an insincere IDPF, and sad object of … Continue reading
Well Yeah, but 75k of ‘em Are Kessinger Reprints of Google Books
Waiting, Godot-like, for anything .epub to mock, I saw this story on PW. …output of on-demand, short run and unclassified titles soared from 21,936 in 2006 to 134,773 last year, according to preliminary figures released Wednesday by R.R. Bowker. Sales … Continue reading
BEA, Book Event of the Year Generates 1–Yes, 1 EPUB Story!
But it’s not an L.A. story. From Australia, we learn about a company that uses .epub to convert to their own proprietary format, just as they’ve for six or seven years now used OEBPS 1.2 to convert to their own … Continue reading
Posted in Devices, Ebooks, Odd, Travel
Tagged .Epub, Adobe, Amazon, DesktopAuthor, Devices, Ebooks, Idiots, Mobipocket, Odd
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Something Tells Me Ingram “Scan to Print”
is going to get a lot cheaper. PW’s got more on the end of Live Search for books. I can’t say this was a surprise, Live had been down for like a month there, but I really loved the professional … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Editions Merlin, Gut Punches, Ingram, Microsoft, POD, Scan to print
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Bezos Still Doesn’t Care About Early Adopters, But He’s Sick of the Trash-Talking
This was linked from Galleycat, and might have been out there for a couple weeks (I was out of town), but Amazon’s got a new job opening: Description Amazon is looking for an experienced professional to work with authors, agents … Continue reading
Posted in Devices, Ebooks, Travel
Tagged Amazon, Devices, Ebooks, Jobs, Kindle, Mobipocket
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Horses, Horses
Reading Mr. Bezos, first thing I thought of was my own trip: coming back through Indiana/Ohio, I saw three farmers, one with a tractor, two with teams of horses. One fellow was right by the Ohio/PA border, and from traditional … Continue reading