E-books

(title unknown) via The Reader's Advisor Online Blog by Cindy Orr on 4/12/09

Digital Future*Tim O’Reilly, the founder of O’Reilly Publishing, predicts that the Amazon Kindle electronic book reader will be gone in two years if Amazon does not make changes so that the content can be read on other devices.

Rumor has it that Barnes and Noble is working on an ebook reader of its own.

Protestors marched outside the headquarters of The Author’s Guild, which recently convinced Amazon to remove text-to-speech capablities form its Kindle reader, demanding that the robotic voices be put back so that disabled readers could use the device too.

Romance Readers Love E-Books!

From

Romance: E-Ink Inroads via In the Bookroom on 3/24/09

Fictionwise, a major ebook retailer with total 2008 U.S. sales of at least $100M that was recently acquired by Barnes & Noble, has just acknowledged that 50 percent of its sales are romances (Wall Street Journal, 3/6/09).

There has been some discussion about the merits of various e-readers at Smart Bitches, Trashy Books including e-reader reviews and places to purchase

While Kindle is good, romance readers are stuck with only books available on Amazon. The Sony 770 seems to be the best reviewed recently. Also information on price-shopping

E-book Price Shopping
Sony 700 Review: Individual All-Around Competition
Kindle II Review: Individual All Around Competition
Kindle for iPhone: Available Now