I love second-hand bookshops. Whenever I go on holiday, one of the first things I do is go to the nearest Tourism Information outlet and get a list of the local used bookshops.
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5 free and low-cost ebook websites
If you have an ebook reader or app, especially the Kindle, then you're in luck. Here are 5 free and low-cost services from which you can obtain new books every day!
Read MoreIs implementing digital rights management a good idea?
Is it a good idea to lock down your ebooks to prevent piracy?
Read MoreE-reading vs p-reading: your brain knows the difference
Whether you read books on an ebook reader or read the paper versions instead makes a more profound difference than you might imagine.
Read More8 useful books for writers
I've either read, or am in the process of reading, several books to do with writing or self-publishing. Here's a list of 8 that I have found useful.
Read MoreSecond-hand ebooks?
So, what do I like about them, and what does this have to do with ebooks?
Tesco’s gets into ebooks
Consumers don’t want interactive ebooks
Inheriting ebooks
Amanda Katz asks: Will Your Children Inherit Your E-Books?
It’s a fascinating article. Is rummaging through the contents of a Kindle that belonged to your grandmother the same as rummaging through boxes of books that belonged to her, assuming that you can even access them?
Tweeting, blogging and self-publishing ebooks
I attended a really useful seminar – well, two seminars – run by the Society of Authors. The morning session was on tweeting and blogging, and the afternoon one on ebook self-publishing.
Books vs e-books
I came across an interesting post by Jeff Thomas, in which he refers to an Infographic by Newsweek, which compares printed books with electronic or e-books. (An infographic, by the way, is a graphical or otherwise succinct way of presenting a lot of information quickly. Newsweek’s books vs e-books graphic is one of the few easily readable ones I’ve come across, but that’s neither here nor there.)