Showing posts with label ereaders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ereaders. Show all posts

Monday 6 January 2014

How to get free ebooks for kindle, nook, kobo, ipad etc

These past few months, I've been busy setting up 
a new free service for readers called eBookSoda
a way to get free and cheap ebooks in genres you love.

http://www.ebooksoda.com

With millions of books out there, it’s hard to find the stuff you like. eBookSoda emails you with great deals on highly rated ebooks in your favourite genres. 

If you like thrillers and cookery, that's what you'll get. If you like contemporary romance and bestsellers, then you'll only receive those types of deals.

The deals are available for all reading devices, including kindle, nook, ipad, kobo, sony, laptop and more.

Getting Started: 
1. Enter your email address. 
2. Select the types of books you’re interested in. 
3 . Receive a daily email with fantastic free and bargain ebooks. 
    Join up for free here: http://www.ebooksoda.com 


Authors and publishers are now welcome to submit their books to eBookSoda for free inclusion in their listings. The site is a fantastic platform for authors to showcase their books, and for readers to get their hands on various genres of books at low prices and for free.



Thursday 5 July 2012

Are Ereaders Teaching Us to Read Again?


Kaitlyn from OnlineTeachingDegree.com contacted me with some interesting statistics.  She's part of the design and research team and they created a graphic illustrating how ereaders have taught us to start reading again.

I'm a British author/reader and the following statistics relate mainly to Americans but I found it really interesting nonetheless. Maybe you will too:


Teaching to Read Again
Created by: www.OnlineTeachingDegree.com

Saturday 27 August 2011

Free Ereaders Coming Soon!



I’ve been thinking about the publishing industry and, more specifically, about where the publishing industry is headed and what it will mean for readers and authors - the rise of ebooks, the decline of print books etc etc. And then something occurred to me. Ereaders will soon be free.

Of course they will. It’s blindingly obvious to me now. Kindles and Nooks and Kobo Readers will be given away or sold for a fraction of their current price. Surely the real revenue is in the thousands of books we download each month. If Amazon wants to sell Kindle books, it has to make sure everyone owns a Kindle.

Maybe readers will pay a monthly subscription, like a mobile phone tariff. For example: Get a free Kindle 3G for a monthly payment of $20 and receive 4 free downloads.

As authors, we might even be given the opportunity to opt in to the ‘monthly subscription programme’, where we receive a set fee each time a reader chooses our ebook as one of their monthly downloads.

At the moment, a lot of video games consoles are sold at a huge loss because the games themselves are where the money is. So it follows that the same could happen with Ereaders.

And where would this leave the author? Wouldn’t it eventually make more sense to go directly to the ereader manufacturer rather than via a traditional publisher?

So this takes me back to my initial pondering about where the publishing industry is heading. What of the traditional publisher? In the short term, print books will still be around, but if everyone owns a free ereader, why would anyone want a paperback? Aside from nostalgic and aesthetic reasons, of course.

As an author, I can buy in editing, design and formatting from freelancers, get it straight from Amazon or do it myself. Which means, one day maybe we’ll all be indie authors. Interesting times.