It was announced today that Tor Books, the largest science fiction and fantasy publisher, will from this point on publish its ebooks without DRM restrictions. This means that once you buy the book, you can convert it and read it on any platform. Kindle, Nook, ebook app, whatever. This is a huge deal. It's also [...]
Read MoreStarShipSofa, the British online audio science fiction anthology magazine, has released a novella by Lawrence Santaro called "Lord Dickens's Declaration." You can listen to it for free — that's what they do, after all; present audio presentations of top science fiction by authors such as Gene Wolfe, Neil Gaiman, Cory Doctorow, Michael Bishop, Tad Williams, [...]
Read MoreBookz Pro, on the many ebook readers available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, just updated to be fully compatible with the 3.0 OS, and it's added some functionality. Version 2.6 now includes auto-rotation, a search bar in your library, and the ability to read from ZIP files. This is added to a decent list [...]
Read MoreIt's never made a lot of sense that ebooks – which require no materials, no shipping, no storage, no stocking or maintenance manpower, and no destruction of unsold inventory – often cost as much or more than their print equivalents. eBook aficionados have spent the last 10 years shaking their heads and wondering when the [...]
Read MoreA century ago, when times were tough (as they are now) and jobs were scarce (as they are now) and people needed inexpensive entertainment to get through their days, the pulp magazines were born. They were filled with lurid tales of adventurers and detectives, ape men and wild women, science fiction and romance, true crime [...]
Read MoreShowtime may have figured out how to advertise a TV show on the Kindle. Give everybody the first script for free. Right now, and until August 31, you can download the script to the pilot episode of their new show "Nurse Jackie," starring former "Sopranos" star Edie Falco, to your Kindle e-book reader. You'll also [...]
Read MoreIn the beginning, there was Peanut Press. One of the oldest e-book publishers and sellers (and by oldest, I mean almost 10 years old, ancient by e-publishing clocks), they built up a good rep, got bought by Palm to become Palm Reader and then eReader, and then finally getting bought by Fictionwise (which just got [...]
Read MoreBefore the Kindle app came along, Stanza was the big dog in iPhone e-book reading. And with good reason. It's free. It does what it does with minimum fuss, with easy-to-understand menus and directions. Once you use it once you've pretty well got it figured out. And getting books from the Web, from a variety [...]
Read MorePhoto by Richard Masoner Right now it is impossible to talk about e-books without mentioning the 800lb e-gorilla in the room, Amazon's Kindle. Well, it's possible, but people look at you funny. The Kindle is a relative late-comer to the e-book world, but it hit with the full force of Amazon's massive marketplace muscle and [...]
Read MoreIf you've read my column/blog/mental dumping ground/whateverthis is, you know of my love for e-books. I read a lot, averaging a book every other day — I've slowed down a bit — and have been known to get actively shaky when I finish a book and don't have another at hand, ready to go. So [...]
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