by Lee Purcell | Jan 2, 2015 | Interview, Meet
When Connie Brooks and her husband founded Battenkill Books in 2009 in the small village of Cambridge, NY, the determined move was accompanied by a fair amount of trepidation. At the time, the economy was in the midst of a serious recession, the popularity of ebooks...
by Lee Purcell | Jan 2, 2015 | Feature, Interview, Meet
In a field that is still too young to have many luminaries, Joanna Penn stands out as a prolific, talented author of both fiction and non-fiction work; a popular speaker and educator with a friendly, engaging style; and a crusader for independent authors seeking to...
by Lee Purcell | Jan 2, 2015 | Beginner, Sell
In a BookBaby post from last month, Chris Robley weighed in on the ebook piracy issue, discussing an NeoMam Studios produced infographic that also appeared in an Encremento story. The bottom line: fears about ebook piracy are vastly overstated. Among the raft of...
by Lee Purcell | Dec 31, 2014 | Beginner, Meet
View image | gettyimages.com On the occasion of accepting an award from the National Book Foundation—the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters—Ursula K. Le Guin offered some cautionary words on the future of publishing and some inspiring words on...
by Lee Purcell | Dec 31, 2014 | Beginner, Discover
The ebook subscription service Scribd has just expanded its catalog offerings with a mountain of audiobooks—30,000, if you’re counting. This is a small fraction of the existing Scribd ebook catalog, which now surpasses 500,000 titles, but it represents a...
by Lee Purcell | Dec 29, 2014 | Learn
Unlike those books lining the shelves in your living room, the ownership of books in the amorphous digital realm is much less clearcut. As Michael Kozlowski points out in this article for Good E-Reader, “When Amazon sells you an eBook for the Kindle, they have...
by Lee Purcell | Dec 26, 2014 | Beginner, Discover
It would be difficult to find any form of literature or popular storytelling that hasn’t made its way into digital form in recent years. Comics have begun to show an increasing presence in online bookstores as color tablets and high-resolution smartphones have...
by Lee Purcell | Dec 26, 2014 | Beginner, Feature, Meet
In Part Two of an hour-long interview, conducted earlier this year, Martyn Daniels discusses the slow evolution of the digital publishing world and the origins of Read Petite, a subscription service focusing on short-form digital content that is being developed by an...
