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...or "Why DRM is killing ebook sales outside of Amazon or Barnes & Noble". Being a international superstar and global jetsetter*, I had the pleasure of passing through Dublin's Connolly railway station today. In the atrium there was a billboard display of book covers complete with QR codes. "Totally cool," I thought. Scan the QR code, buy the ebook, download
More time is spent reading with children but parents are finding modern life tiring and stressful, according to research commissioned by Booktime. The average time spent by parents reading with their child (4 & 5 year olds) is now one hour 26 mins per week, an increase of 10% over 2009. 60% of parents read with children for pleasure on
Launched yesterday at the Hay Festival in Wales, Unbound is the latest website to link prospective funders to creators. In this instance, it's authors and books, rather than entrepreneurs and tech but it's the same concept. They have an idea for a book, the story gets pitched to you, if you like it you buy the future book and if
Tor.com are hosting a Steampunk Fortnight over at tor.com, building on the success of last year's Steampunk Month. From 20th October through to 3rd November, there will be stream of articles, stories, desktop backgrounds and giveaways all on the steampunk theme. If you aren't familiar with steampunk, it's a sub-genre of sci-fi where scientific discovery stopped in the Victorian era