The Amazon Matchbook Program
On September 3, 2013 Kindle announced a program they call Matchbook. This will allow people who have bought print books from Amazon since 1995 to obtain an eBook copy of Continue Reading
Bundled Digital Copies, Why Not With Books?
I Have Cake But I Want to Eat It Too Recently I bought a record. It’s the new album of a band I am a big fan of. I don’t Continue Reading
The Niche Bookstore is Most Definitely Not Dead
I saw Notting Hill a few years ago. I’m sure at this point everyone knows that Hugh Grant’s character is the owner of a travel bookstore. A store that sells Continue Reading
Credit Card Payments Via Smartphones
How do you accept payments? In Toronto there are a multitude of booksellers of different types and sizes: some are huge multi-story stores with thousands of books, DVDs, and music; Continue Reading
A New eBook Distribution Solution
Spacing published an article the other day about a new way for users to interact with subway advertising devised by a few students at the Miami Ad School. The idea they propose Continue Reading
Finally Made the Move to an eReader
Finally a eReader User I finally bought an eBook reader. I know that I’ve been writing about eBooks for a few years now, but only just this past week did Continue Reading
The Anonymity of eBooks
One of the things I remember from my time in school learning to be a librarian was something the professor in the Reference Services class I took during my first Continue Reading
Closing the Book on Bookstore Closure
It’s Not All Bad News or Closing the Book on Bookstore Closure Early last week I found out that The Toronto Women’s Bookstore is closing and that the owner would Continue Reading