Category Archives: eBooks

A Life Without Bookshelves?

Posted on July 12, 2011 by

(This post was originally contributed to the new and impressive Booksellers NZ blog) A recent article described the disappearance of home bookshelves in the face of growing ebookishness. It left me with the same feeling of stunned confusion I experienced … Continue reading →

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Japanese Earthquake Charity eBook

Posted on April 14, 2011 by

On the 18th of March a blogger and tweeter in Japan started something quite remarkable. He wanted to generate some financial and moral aid for those devastated by the recent earthquake (see his original post here). The idea was to … Continue reading →

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eBooks on vicbooks (VUP & meBooks & stuff)

Posted on August 17, 2010 by

We, vicbooks, have started selling eBooks. VUP’s eBooks. And it really is just the beginning. VUP stands for Victoria University Press. VUP does not stand for Very Untoward Practices. But it could stand for Virtually Unparalleled Publications. Or we could … Continue reading →

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Erotical

Posted on August 17, 2010 by

Everyone is playing the speculation game over possible fates of the publishing industry, scrying the interweb for ebook and readership trends. Such divination is varied and seems full of either melancholic nostalgia or a barely suppressed Schadenfreude. It can get … Continue reading →

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Power to the Paper: the inverted opportunities of ebooks

Posted on July 15, 2010 by

With the dawn of the ebook emerging from the crepuscular stage, publishers are desperate for a model to cling to so they surf ride the burgeoning light towards the morning tea-time of the ebook market. Strangely, I think, this is … Continue reading →

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The Book Vs. The iPad

Posted on July 1, 2010 by

Counter to the gushing endorsement of the iPad by the publishing world, Kirk Cheyfitz of the Huffington Post offers a reality check on accelerating e-reader technology when compared with the content available to it. While the post is a bit … Continue reading →

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Ulysses vs. Apple… well, almost.

Posted on June 17, 2010 by

Bloomsday is an annual day of celebration in Dublin that commemorates the life of James Joyce. Participants relive the events of Leopold Bloom’s odyssey around Dublin over the course of a day. Bloom is the protagonist in Joyce’s most famous … Continue reading →

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eTextbooks & ‘The Kno’

Posted on June 16, 2010 by

The war rages for market control of ebooks between tech giants like Amazon and Apple, and the publishers their success threatens (at least the biggies like Random House, Penguin and Harper Collins, most others have to sit on the sidelines … Continue reading →

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