Tag Archives: ebooks

Official Google Blog – Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices

Seems inter­est­ing but ulti­mately I’m already invested in Amazon’s Kin­dle Store.

December 6, 2010 – 10:31 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

Macmillan Books Return to Amazon After Dispute – NYTimes.com

Macmil­lan books are back on Amazon.com.

February 6, 2010 – 10:22 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Amazon.com Vs. Apple & Publishers

My side to the Amazon.com vs. Apple and Pub­lish­ing Houses spat.

January 31, 2010 – 5:36 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Economics, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

2009 O’Reilly Ebook Revenue up 104% — Tools of Change for Publishing

O’Reilly Ebooks divi­sion made 104% more after drop­ping DRM.

January 24, 2010 – 9:47 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

E-Book Buyer’s Guide to Privacy – Electronic Frontier Foundation

EFF updates their guide to e-books and privacy.

January 7, 2010 – 10:15 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Updates to Netflix for Books

As an update on my idea for a Net­flix type sys­tem for books. I real­ized while dis­cussing the idea with fam­ily mem­bers over the week­end that there is one impor­tant change that prob­a­bly needs to be made. To make this idea a viable busi­ness you would almost have to only allow for e-books. While you could …

November 28, 2009 – 8:37 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Ideas, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Netflix for Books

The tweet that spawned this post Net­flix in case you haven’t heard of it is sys­tem whereby you give them money and they send you movies by mail that you can keep for as long as you want. No late fees, no extra charges on your account. Mail back the movie in their pre-paid enve­lope and …

November 22, 2009 – 10:36 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Ideas, Social Media, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)