| The Kobo Aura HD was first announced on April 15th at the London Book Fair and the company announced that it will begin rolling it out to all retail locations by April 25th. This e-Reader bypassed the companies normal product release cycle, of September and October for most of their new gadgets. So what prompted them to release a new digital reader when the Mini, Arc and Glo was just just announced late September 2012? The Answer is quite surprising. Barnes and Noble had been working with e-Ink Holdings to develop a followup to their year old Nook Simple Touch Reader with Glowlight. Close to 300,000 e-Readers were originally manufactured and earmarked for Barnes and Noble, but Kobo swooped in when the deal fell through to get a new product out the door. This is why when Kobo announced the product, vs when it ships, was very close. This entire situation puts B&N in a terrible position because their entire e-Reader product line is woefully outdated and they are having a hard time just giving them away when customers buy the Nook HD. The entire Aura HD saga is a weird one, because this is the time of year when Barnes and Noble has traditionally announced new e-Readers for the past four years. The fact that they missed their normal product release cycle for e-ink devices is quite concerning for most people in the industry. The big issue with Barnes and Noble is whats next? They missed their goal is expanding to numerous countries within one year, when they first announced it mid-last-year. The were supposed to open up more markets in Europe and never did. Nook Press was the only major thing they have launched over the course of the last five months, and is a project still lacking many core features that Amazon and Kobo both have. I am very worried about the future of Barnes and Noble. They have two major investment partners with Microsoft and Pearson, which helped them make the entire Nook empire separate from the book business. This insures that if the retail sector ever tanks, it won’t effect whats happening with their e-Readers, tablets and eBooks. The main question, is who is in charge of Nook Media, why aren’t they innovating, where are they asleep at the wheel? Why aren’t they expanding into more markets? The USA market is drying up due to the competitive nature of eBooks and e-Readers. The big reason Kobo and Amazon are successful is because they do nothing BUT expand. A storm’s a brewin – The Kobo and Barnes and Noble e-Reader Situation is a post from: E-Reader News |
Monday, April 22, 2013
A storm’s a brewin – The Kobo and Barnes and Noble e-Reader Situation
Independent Booksellers Pick Year’s Top Books
| With all of the prestigious accolades an author can earn for his writing, some of the more meaningful ones come from the lesser known judges. One such award is the Indies Choice Award, as the judges are none other than the member booksellers of the American Booksellers’ Association, the individuals who hand sell the titles to loyal bookshop patrons and have firsthand knowledge of the quality of content that their customers clamor for. The categories for this year’s awards included adult fiction, adult non-fiction, adult debut author, and young adult titles, along with the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards for middle reader and picture book. Also named this year was the newly coined Indie Champion Award, formerly known as the award for Most Engaging Author. The awards categories continued with the list of honoree titles in each of the categories. The Adult Fiction winner for this year is The Round House: A Novel, by Louise Erdrich (Harper), while the Adult Non-Fiction winner is Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf). The highly-acclaimed novel, The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green (Dutton Juvenile), earned top honors for Young Adult Book of the Year. Several beloved children’s books were also inducted into the Picture Book Hall of Fame: Bread and Jam for Frances, by Russell Hoban, Lillian Hoban (Illus.) (HarperCollins), Caps for Sale, by Esphyr Slobokina (HarperCollins), Harold and the Purple Crayon, by Crockett Johnson (HarperCollins), and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, by Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith (Illus.) (Viking Juvenile). The award winners will be honored at a lunch held in conjunction with BookExpo America on May 30th. For a complete list of the winning titles and their authors, click here.
Independent Booksellers Pick Year’s Top Books is a post from: E-Reader News |
JB Hi-Fi Launches new eBook Store in Australia
| JB Hi-Fi is a retail store with over 150 locations in Australia. The company carries a number of e-Readers from Kobo, Sony and a few others. Not content with making slim margins on hardware sales they have launched a new online eBook store to help differentiate themselves in a crowded Australian digital scene. JB HiFi NOW Books is the name of the new bookstore and all of the electronic offerings have DRM encryption. This means you will have to use Adobe Digital Editions to transfer the books over to the e-Reader of your choice. If you want to forgo an e-Reader altogether, you can download the new reading apps for iOS and Android. A number of major publishers have attached themselves to this new store, so you should be able to find most of the perennial bestsellers. HarperCollins, Penguin, Random House, Allen & Unwin, Hachette, Lonely Planet, Pan Macmillan and Text Publishing are the major ones. “Books are a natural extension of the home entertainment content offering in which our regular customers are already heavily engaged,” said the spokesperson. “The JB HiFi online and digital ecosystems are a perfect environment for us to engage our customers with the rapidly growing ebook category, linking in with our extensive IT hardware offer and popular gift card program.” JB Hi-Fi Launches new eBook Store in Australia is a post from: E-Reader News |
Kindle Amnesty Program Unveiled in Australia
| Amazon has one of the most closed ecosystems in the world. When you buy eBooks from the e-commence giant, they are incompatible with any other e-Reader or tablet. Many people are either for or against this business model, but Booksellers group Pages & Pages, is firmly against it. On the 3rd Saturday of every month Pages & Pages will be declaring a Kindle Amnesty. Purchase a BeBook Touch on that day and trade a Kindle in at the same time and Pages & Pages will give you a $50 Gift Voucher. Amazon has over 65% of the eBook market in Australia and over 75% of eReaders owned in Australia are Kindles. Pages & Pages realizes that the average customer has no idea that they are locked into the walled garden of Amazon. Pages, is seeking to educate the broader Australian sector with Kobo and Bebook e-Readers that are eBook agnostic. Their primary eBook format is EPUB, which allows you to shop at any online bookstore and load the books right on your device. General Manager, Pages & Pages Booksellers said in a recent blog post that “Pages & Pages is no longer sitting passively by while Amazon steals our customers and steals their reading choices. Through this campaign we want people to understand what Amazon is doing and make an informed choice to have choice.” He went on to say that “The eBook is not a threat to physical bookshops. This new format presents bookshops and readers with many wonderful opportunities to sell and read more books. What does threaten bookshops is a company who engages in uncompetitive behaviour, pays no tax in Australia and misleads readers with restrictive devices and fake book reviews.” Kindle Amnesty Program Unveiled in Australia is a post from: E-Reader News |
App Store Revenue: Google Play Store Registers Steady Growth, Though Apple App Store Still Dominating
| Gadget sales only make a company money once, and that’s if the devices aren’t sold at cost, but the app stores account for a sustained source of steady income. That is how things stand for the biggies in the business, with Apple raking in $1.48 billion from sales via its App Store during the first quarter of the year. That accounts for a dominating 74 percent of the $2.2 billion dollar revenue that app store sales have generated during the first three months of the year. Google Play store came in at second with 48 percent of the revenue. However, while the above figure might seem to be overwhelmingly in favor of Apple, things look impressive for Google from a different perspective. For instance, Google's income from its Play Store grew at 90 percent compared to what it was just a quarter ago. A separate report by the analytics firm, App Annie, pegged Google's revenue from Google Play to be 38.5 percent that of Apple. However, Google still has a lot of time, as analysts project it will be 2016 before the search giant can surpass Apple in terms of revenue from app store sales. “Although Google is catching up, Apple has such a head-start in revenues that, on present trends, we would not expect Google to overtake Apple until sometime in 2016,” said Adam Daum, chief analyst at Canalys to Reuters. This proves the steady growth of Android brought about by the rising sales of Android based tablets and smartphones. However, in revenue terms, Apple still leads. Apple’s success is attributed to its payment system, which is considered much simpler than that of the Play Store. With Apple, users of the iPhone and iPad have registered their credit cards with the Apple App Store, which makes it easier for them to carry out a purchase. With Google's Play Store, the options are many, such as Google Wallet, credit card purchases, and carrier billing, which analysts believe is often detrimental to higher sales. The research also predicted Japan and South Korea, two of the biggest Android consumers, could be seen fueling the next wave of growth of the Play Store. Android consumers in both countries are most interested in games, something Android ought to remember.
App Store Revenue: Google Play Store Registers Steady Growth, Though Apple App Store Still Dominating is a post from: E-Reader News |
Device Specific How- to Guides Now Available
| As you may have noticed, with the creation of OverDrive's new Partner Portal, our Learning Center received a facelift as well. This change is not simply cosmetic! At the Learning Center, you'll find updates to our On Demand trainings, registration for live sessions and frequent additions to the resources available for training your staff and users.  Use OverDrive's How-to guides to teach users how to enjoy eBooks on their new devices!
Thanks to your feedback, we’ve added device-specific How-to guides that are now available to print from the Learning Center's Resources section—along the lines of the popular eBook Cheat sheet. The new guides include instruction on how to enjoy eBooks and audiobooks for iOS and Android devices, as well as the Kindle Fire, with more on the way. These materials are an excellent resource to distribute during training classes, at the reference desk or to give to patrons who inquire for more information.
Which device do you receive the most questions about? Feel free to leave comments below so we know which guide to create next.
Adam Sockel is a Marketing Specialist at OverDrive
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Bird photography with a Raspberry Pi and a DSLR
| Tricky things, birds. Even when you’ve got yourself sorted out with boxes and feeders to entice them into your garden, it can be very difficult to get a decent photograph – they don’t stay still for long, especially if they see you coming (and it is amazing at just how adept birds are at spotting the slightest movement – the sort of movement you might make to operate the zoom lens on your camera, for example), and many feeding birds will only visit the table for a few seconds at a time, even if you’re well hidden. Enter Adrian Bevan and his Raspberry Pi. Adrian had built a shutter release for his Canon1000D SLR, and decided to extend his new knowledge by making a DIY remote release. He’s been activating it manually, but has also made instructions available for using it with a motion detector (Adrian’s currently using a webcam and a second Pi for this part of the kit), so that the SLR can fire automatically when the Pi it is attached to senses that there was a bird on the table using information streamed from the outdoor Pi. Your best bet here is to set the camera up in continuous shooting mode so that it’ll take several shots over a few seconds once your target has been spotted. Adrian has put exhaustive instructions on making your own setup on his blog, complete with circuit diagrams and code, alongside some video of the shutter in action. Speaking of birds, I was, sadly, nowhere near a camera when a sparrowhawk dropped out of the sky to disembowel a blue tit on my front lawn this morning. Rotten shame, that. Oh – and if anybody has any tips on how to stop my bird-feeders being reliably emptied within ten minutes of filling by a horde of marauding starlings, I’m all ears. Adrian has used that old Pi hackers’ standby, Tupperware, to house the webcam, battery pack and associated Pi in a waterproof environment. Securely housing your DSLR outside in a way that means it won’t get wet but can still take pictures is, obviously, a bit trickier; his is, I think, set up indoors, pointing out of a window, with a whacking great zoom lens attached to the front. If you’ve any ideas on how to set up and leave a good camera outdoors without it getting wet or stolen, please let us know in the comments!
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7″ Kindle Fire HD Gets Android 4.2 Jelly Bean via Alpha Release of CM 10.1
| The 7″ Kindle Fire HD just got a lot cooler today thanks to Android developers over at XDA, especially Hashcode, who has just posted an Alpha release of CyanogenMod 10.1 for the 7″ Kindle Fire HD, which brings Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and all of its Google-infested glory to Amazon’s most popular tablet. CM10 has [...] |
Debate Continues Over Enhanced, Interactive eBooks
 Photo courtesy of cinemablend.com Last week, The Guardian ran an article about the introduction of “next generation” ebooks at this year’s London Book Fair. Publisher Faber&Faber unveiled an updated, gaming-style edition of John Buchan’s The 39 Steps, created with the help of The Story Mechanics, with enhancements like hand-created digital visuals of turn-of-the-century Great Britain, stop-frame animation, and the ability to unlock achievements throughout the book. But what was actually more interesting than the news of the release of the book was the reader comments on the article itself. It seems as though book lovers are still very devoutly divided on the concept of enhanced ebooks. While supporters of the new digital format are intrigued by the visuals, archives of information that builds the back story, and the opportunity to revive older works of literature for a new audience, outspoken critics of the concept commented on the superfluous “bells and whistles” that interactive ebooks carry. The video game concept of a book was less than appealing to some, while others were not impressed with what they considered to be distractions that would pull the reader out of the book. To some, it seems that interactive ebooks do have their place in reading, but perhaps not in fiction. Science and academic books seem to be an appropriate recipient of the features that enhanced ebooks can offer, while fiction fans pointed out that the writing itself should carry the reader into the setting instead of relying on immersive graphics or embedded soundtracks. Regardless of where the fans feel interactive ebooks should go, the developers of the content are making continuous improvements to the concept. The original ebooks that came packed with distracting hyperlinks that took the reader out of the book to find more information are being replaced with books that incorporate the features into the story framework while still allowing the reader the option to see the content or not. Embedded videos no longer have to take the reader to YouTube to view them, but still afford the reader the choice of playing the video or not, while book soundtracks that were newsworthy a couple of years ago are less prevalent in some of the new concepts. Wherever the divide over enhanced ebooks falls, the capabilities are improving and hopefully serving to bring in new readers who wouldn’t have otherwise bothered with a “words on a page” title. For some readers, though, the enhancements only serve to alienate the consumers who prefer to interact with books through their imaginations.
Debate Continues Over Enhanced, Interactive eBooks is a post from: E-Reader News |
Sunday, April 21, 2013
GoComics Launches Windows Phone, Android and iOS Apps
| If you are a fan of the Sunday Funnies, then you will want to install the new fleet of apps released by Uclick’s GoComics. Lots of comics are here, plus their older archives. You can find such things as Calvin and Hobbs, Peanuts, Garfield, Ziggy and a ton more! There are two membership options free and pro, both providing e-mail subscription and personalized online access to new and classic comics. GoComics is also home to Comics Sherpa, the site where aspiring cartoonists can showcase their work and receive feedback from the comic community. GoComics is might provide a departure from the heroes and capes that permeate Marvel and DC. GoComics Launches Windows Phone, Android and iOS Apps is a post from: E-Reader News |
Kobo Aura HD Already Shipping to Customers
| The Kobo Aura HD has a street date of April 25 – April 29th, depending on who you talk to. We have a number of confirmed reports that some units have been shipped early, and a number of customers all over Canada have already received their new e-readers. Kobo ships all of its devices from Mississauga, Ontario and many people in that Province have received them first. We also have reports that customers in the United Kingdom have started receiving their tracking information on Friday, but it seems its only from orders placed at WH Smith. The Kobo Aura HD is the first 6.8 inch e-reader in the world and it also carries the highest resolution screen in the business. The front-lit display, in conjunction with the supremely excellent font augmentation options, make this a viable investment for newbie and advanced users alike. Already have your Kobo? Drop us a line what country you live in and where you purchased it from, and we’ll update this list. Kobo Aura HD Already Shipping to Customers is a post from: E-Reader News |
Penguin Brings Perseus eBooks to India
| This July, Penguin will begin distributing ebooks and books published by Perseus International to India. The Perseus Group's imprints include Avalon Travel, Basic Books, Basic Civitas, Da Capo Press, Da Capo Lifelong Books, PublicAffairs, Running Press, Seal Press, and Westview Press. Penguin has been operating out of India since 1985 and is hoping to capitalize on the growing digital trend by bringing a number of hot titles, such as Tom Rath's StrengthsFinder 2.0, Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad Poor Dad, Deepak Chopra's The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Shakti Gawain's Creative Visualization, and Kishore Mahbubani's The New Asian Hemisphere. Penguin India's CEO and president Andrew Phillips said, “Penguin India is delighted to be working with Perseus, and we look forward to expanding the range of books available in India and introducing great new authors to Indian readers.” Penguin Brings Perseus eBooks to India is a post from: E-Reader News |
Good e-Reader Radio Show – April 21 2013
| Welcome to another jam packed edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show! Today we talk about the latest Amazon news, such as the new Comic Book Creator and also Amazon’s expansion of the App Store. We have the Kobo Aura HD in our gadget labs, and we dive into details on how these fair against the competition. Also, we get into the new Simon and Schuster pilot project with 3M and Baker & Taylor in New York. Finally, we talk self-publishing digital comics with the new initiative by DeviantArt and how rookie creators should tap into this to make connections and learn their craft. As always, I rant and rave about various issues, including my experiences as a Game Artist and Teacher in Vancouver, BC! If you love excellent music, I play all sorts of great tunes from the UK label Tru Thoughts, and also end the show with a few favorites from Kid Koala. A great show as always, so check it out. Good e-Reader Radio Show – April 21 2013 is a post from: E-Reader News |
Archie Comics Goes Same Day as Print on Google Play
| Archie Comics just added a new platform to their digital offerings—and they are celebrating with some bargains. You can already get Archie comics via comiXology, Comics Plus, the Archie app, and the Nook store, and the graphic novels are available via Kindle and iBooks as well. Now, both single-issue comics and graphic novels are available via Google Play. Archie launched with over 500 titles, and many of them are priced at just 99 cents until April 30. The best deal, in terms of pages per dollar, is the Sabrina the Teenage Witch 50th anniversary compilation, 354 pages of classic and modern Sabrina stories, including one that has never been published before. That’s a lot of value for your buck. If you like the characters, Sonic Super Special Magazine and Jughead: Slacker University are also good deals, at 124 and 100 pages, respectively. The Sabrina and Jughead books are digital exclusives; the Archie folks are certainly making good use of their massive back catalogue. At the same time, they are making new comics available on the service the same day they come out, as they do on the other platforms. The Google Play listings note that the Archie comics are scanned pages and not suitable for small devices. They looked pretty good on my Nexus 7, though, and when I enlarged them with a double-tap they still looked good. There doesn’t seem to be any panel-by-panel view available on this platform, though. Archie Comics Goes Same Day as Print on Google Play is a post from: E-Reader News |
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Madefire and DeviantArt Team Up for Full Motion Digital Comics
| Madefire has just created a new Motion Book Tool to bring sequential art to life, and digital art nexus DeviantArt just teamed up with them. The New Madefire browser app will allow artists to create full motion digital comics. DeviantArt remains one of the largest digital artist communities, with 26 million registered users and 150,000 daily submissions. Just about everyone in the game art, comic, 2d and 3d field has used this site at one point or another. Artists who want to take advantage of the new motion tools can apply on the website for it and the first round of 20 comics are LIVE now! Content creators will be able to sell their books both through DeviantArt's own premium content platform and Madefire's existing iOS apps and Flash based internet website. The revenue share program is poised to give the creators 20% of everything sold through all the various platforms. It remains to be seen if this self-published service can compete with other services on the market, such as Comixology Submit. Still, 1200 artists belong to the group and it only went live a few weeks ago. If anything, it could be used to connect up writers and artists to gain experience making comics, if they are looking to ultimately pursue careers in the field. Madefire and DeviantArt Team Up for Full Motion Digital Comics is a post from: E-Reader News |
Adafruit WebIDE – new alpha release available
| News from across the pond arrived last night, UK time. Our good friends at Adafruit have been working on their web-based integrated development environment (IDE) – hence WebIDE – for the Raspberry Pi, and have made a number of changes based on your requests. This is a big update (“Huge!” says PT), and if you’re already using the WebIDE you’ll notice some changes. We’re big fans of Adafruit’s WebIDE for the Pi. It offers a nicely structured, easy way to learn how to program, and there’s already lots of support for it (check out Adafruit’s materials or click on the picture above), even though it’s stil in alpha. Beginners should find the visualiser especially helpful; it’s a good way to work out how simple scripts really work, and allows you to see how objects are created, how processes are stacked and so on. We’ve found it’s a real aid to understanding how things fit together, and a great way to explain concepts to people who’ve only just started programming. Please be aware that because the WebIDE is still a product under development, you may encounter bugs. If you do, please report them using the tool in the editor; user feedback’s really valuable when developing this stuff, and LadyAda, PT, Justin, Tyler and the team want to hear about your experiences. PT says:
If you are already running v0.2.0 or higher, you will be able to upgrade (and may already have done) from inside the editor. If you’re running an earlier version, you’ll need to completely remove your old editor and reinstall again. You can find out more at Adafruit. Thanks so much for all your work on this, Adafruit folks – we continue to be bowled over by all the work you’ve been putting into the Pi platform, and we couldn’t be more grateful. We’re looking forward to seeing you when we’re next in NYC! |
My Kobo Glo has Become Too Glitchy To Function
| While I’m eagerly waiting for the new Kobo Aura HD to arrive at my door, I can only hope that it works better than my Kobo Glo. I noticed the other day at MobileRead that there is a new firmware update, version 2.5, for the Kobo Glo. So I charged mine up and tried to [...] |
Penguin and Random House Merger Approved in Canada
| Penguin and Random House intend to merge and have been submitting approval documents to regulatory authorities in all of the major countries they operate in. When the two companies join forces, they will account for 1/4 of all books published. It was announced late Friday that the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Canadian Competition Bureau have both approved the proposal "without conditions." A Canadian Press release on the subject said, “The two companies announced their agreement to combine Penguin and Random House in October 2012. To date, approval has been granted by the US Department of Justice in the US, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, and The New Zealand Commerce Commission. Pearson and Bertelsmann continue to expect the transaction to close in the second half of 2013, after all necessary approvals have been received.” The release went on to outline “Following completion of the merger, Bertelsmann will own 53% and Pearson 47% of Penguin Random House. It will encompass all of Random House and Penguin Group's publishing units in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, India and South Africa, as well as Penguin's operations in China and Random House's publishers in Spain and Latin America. Pearson and Bertelsmann believe that the combined organisation, the world's leading consumer publishing company, will have a stronger platform and greater resources to invest in rich content, new digital publishing models and high-growth emerging markets.” Penguin and Random House Merger Approved in Canada is a post from: E-Reader News |
Friday, April 19, 2013
Kobo Aura HD VS Amazon Kindle Paperwhite
| The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite and Kobo Aura HD are have reached the apex on what the current generation of e-Readers can do. These two devices are released by companies who both sell the hardware and digital content. The big hyping factor behind these two electronic readers is the ability to read in the dark via the front-lit display and the high resolution. Today, we pit these head to head in a video comparison, to give you a sense on what they both bring to the table. The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite features a six inch e-ink Pearl display with tremendous resolution. You are looking at a very solid 1024×768, which makes pictures looking very crisp. It runs on a 800 MHZ CPU processor and has 512 MB of RAM. There is 2 GB of internal storage and most purchases you make are stored in the cloud, one of the drawbacks is there is no expandable memory. Amazon has one of the deepest ecosystems in the world, and has over 1.2 million books that are mainstream bestsellers and thousands of self-published titles. The Kobo Aura HD features a 6.8 inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1440×1080 with 265 DPI. This e-reader is seriously the best in the business with its high-definition display. The Kindle Fire HD 7 has 1280×800 and the Nook HD has 1440×900. What this means is that as an e-reader, it actually has better image quality than the majority of mainstream tablets on the market. The Aura HD also has a built in comfort light, which allows you to read in the dark with a front-lit display. It is powered by a 1 GB processor and has 4 GB of internal memory, which can be expanded via a SD Card. People choose e-Readers because of their minimal distractions and is the closest you can get to reading a real book. The Aura edges out the Paperwhite in terms of screen resolution, screen size and brightness of the front-lit display. Pictures, text and UI elements tend to look better on the Aura, and the extra 1 inch screen size really enhances your experience. Over the course of this video comparison we check out the eBook reading experience with purchased books and also PDF files. You can get a sense on what type of augmentation options you can employ via fonts, linespacing, margins, highlights, dictionaries and annotations. We also dive deep into the core features both bring to the table and by the end of the video you should get a strong sense on what e-Reader is perfect for you. Kobo Aura HD VS Amazon Kindle Paperwhite is a post from: E-Reader News |
Amazon Expanding into Russia
| Amazon may be setting up shop in Russia in the near future. The company intends on opening up a new office and has filed for new Kindle patents. Former ABC-Atticus publishing head Arkady Vitrouk has been hired and will leading the Russian Kindle content division. Not only has Amazon hired Vitrouk to spearhead the entire program, but the company is actively hiring for three new positions for the Russian office. The listings are for a senior product manager for Kindle content pricing, and a principal for content acquisition for Kindle Russia, and another content acquisition manager position. Amazon has filed for a number of technology patents in Russia, which is a huge indication that it will begin selling e-readers and tablets. Amazon has recently filed the ability to storae and deliver goods; the storage of electronic texts and media files; and book publishing. This means that not only will Amazon be selling devices and ebooks in Russia, but also launch its self-publishing program, Kindle Direct Publishing. Russia is a very large untapped market with over 61 million online users. There are a bunch of e-reader companies, such as Wexler, Pocketbook, and Ectaco, which do well in that market, but are considered minor players. Amazon Expanding into Russia is a post from: E-Reader News |
