Toasters, coffee machines and vacuum cleaners are
all perfectly good things to buy on Amazon, the general manager of
Toronto-based Kobo told us yesterday when we sat down with him for a
product demo of the company’s latest e-reader tablet, but not books.
Kobo
GM: Why Buy Books From Amazon?The corner bookstore is supposed to go extinct once Amazon takes over the world. If Borders — and even mighty Barnes & Noble's — couldn't fight off the behemoth, how would the lowly local shop even stand a chance? Used Book Stores Are In A Great Position To Benefit From The E-book Apocalypse.
Self-published authors frequently take the hit for poorly edited and badly formatted e-books. But the truth is, many of them are more careful about proofing their work than traditional publishers seem to be. Why Are E-books Filled With Errors?
Old people read faster than normal on an iPad, even though most claim to prefer 'real books', a study shows. German researchers discovered that people of different ages could read just as well from iPads and Kindles as they do from traditional books. In fact, old people read even faster using the the iPad as it made reading easier than both the Kindle and traditional book. Elderly people 'read iPads three times faster than normal books’.
Every book counts. Malaysia’s Silverfish Books.
