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Free Random e-books for iPhone
Random US will offer free backlist titles and exerpts from new releases from 'a wide variety of authors' on the popular Stanza e-reader for the Apple iPhone
Thomas Nelson offers free books to blogger reviewers
Is the move by US religious publisher Thomas Nelson to offer free books to bloggers in exchange for reviews a great marketing idea, or is it 'intrusive' and dangerous to the culture of reviewing, asks...
Will the $1 e-book save the publishing industry?
'The market doesn't care a whit about maintaining your industry,' says author and tech pundit Seth Godin in this interview with HarperStudio on its 26th Story blog.
Free audio downloads of Booker shortlist
'Teaser audio downloads' of the titles shortlisted for this year's Man Booker Prize are available to download to your mobile phone -- type gospoken.com/a/mbp08 into your mobile web...
Booker shortlist for free mobile download
Extracts from all this year's Booker-shortlisted titles will be made availiable for free download to UK mobile phone users.
iPhone e-book software upgraded
E-book retailer Fictionwise has announced an upgrage to its free e-book reader software for Apple's iPhone. The software has been downloaded by users and installed on over 130,000 phones in ...
Freebies, widgets and snippets: do they help sell books?
A panel at BEA discussed the use of free online content, widgets, search engines, 'chunks' and 'snippets' in marketing print books. The conclusion? Keep experimenting and see what happens.
Brittanica now free for bloggers
In an effort to fight off the influence of online sources such as Wikipedia, the publisher of Encylopedia Brittanica have announced that they will allow bloggers and other 'web publishers' free a...
Zinio puts classics online for free
Online publishing, distribution and retail-services company Zinio has launched a range of over 100 classics downloadable as free e-books in order to showcase its technology.
Better than free
Tech pundit Kevin Kelly sets out his key principals for maintaining value in an online world where free seems to be the expectation: When copies are super abundant, they become worthless. When copies ...
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