Free Ebook of Quotes

While it's available, get your free ebook with twitter-ready quotes compiled by the Lyttle sisters, Alicia and Lorette on amazon.  It is titled A Tweet A Day. I am loving #22:   "People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them." Anthony Robbins.  Quote #30 by President Abraham Lincoln, who we are now so very interested in these days, is inspirational for the new year: "Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way."

This is eBook Universe

This is eBook Universe and we are just passing through it:

Reading Devices

·         Barnes and Noble

o   Nook Simple Touch -$99  

·         Amazon

o   Kindle (Fire- $79, Touch- $99)

·         Sony

o   Reader Pocket- $100, Reader Touch - $150

Other Mobile Devices

·         iPhone, iPod, iPad, Tablet, Android

o   Mobile apps

§  Iceberg, Course Smart, Kindle,  Nook,Kobo, iBooks

Benefits of these devices: light, small, paperless, instant delivery of eBooks, read eBooks anywhere

Free eBooks on the internet

·         HathiTrust.org, Gutenberg.org, Scribd.com, Free-ebooks.net, Openlibrary.org

The Big Six Publishers have got to be feeling threatened by Amazon's new projects: Kindle Lending Library 

and the Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP) Select which seeks to win over self-publishers.

Here is an interesting article about KDP Select  Amazon is very enticing for those new writers who want to reach a wide audience.   Other than the Big Six and other independent publishers, KDP is competing with Barnes and Noble's PubIt

eBooks in the Library

So what do librarians, watchdogs of freedom to read and promoters of equal access to library materials, think about eBooks? It was recently reported that more eBooks are sold on amazon now than regular hardcover and paperbacks.  Also, Ebscohost databases will soon have journal and eBook content in their search results.   There is an eBook revolution going on and 2011 is supposed to be the Year of the eBook.  Here is an interesting article on Library Journal and an educational video on a free digital library, by Librarian Brewster Kahle.  I like his quote on universal access, "the best we have to offer within reach."  I have not yet jumped on the band wagon to buy a Kindle or a Nook.

A Must Read for all Bloggers

If you are a "viral blogger', one who wants to spread ideas, as opposed to a "cat" blogger or a "boss" blogger, then you have to read Seth Godin's free ebook titled, Who's there? He is a man full of ideas and expresses them clearly, simply, and with humor. I would say I started as a boss blogger with a specific audience in mind but now I am branching into a viral blogger for a wider audience.

Be curious, click on the link to see what Seth means by a cat blogger, a boss blogger, and a viral blogger.