There are lot’s of ways to get an ISBN number for self-published books or e-books, but I chose to go all the way and become a Canadian publisher.
Category: Technology
Lots of people got Kindles and Nooks and e-readers over Christmas this year. These lucky people also apparently decided it was too snowy to go out shopping between Christmas and New Year’s, because instead they stayed home and purchased record numbers of e-books.
While I’ve trashed the Sony E-reader a couple of times when comparing to the Kindle, a whole new world just opened up for the little device: Google has launched their new Google ebookstore.
Amazon and Sony have crossed the line from e-book stores to publishers, although they’re using a very old method to recruit want-to-be-authors: self-publishers, also known as vanity presses.
For those of you who have a life and don’t have time for the article: the salient prediction is that Amazon and the Kindle will move from 50% e-book market share to 90% market share.
The Crime Writers of Canada asked me for an article on e-books for their newsletter. The article I wrote above turned out to be very similar to one they’d published last month. Who knew? I’m not the first person to see this coming.
Amazon’s Kindle e-readers may cost you some bucks, but the Kindle reader software is free to download onto your computer.
What’s really amazing is that Barnes and Noble have already sold a million of the old version of the Nook and expect to sell a million of this version.