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 the book, assuming that the pu…
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 own a record player but I bought it anyway since a) the album art i…
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 only travel books. When I first saw Nott…
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; others are small st…
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 is called the Undergro…
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 I finally decide to get a dedicated eBook rea…
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 semester said: never apologize for wha…
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 have to head over to Fusion Peop…