Category: Ebooks and Ereaders

  • How to read ebooks, Part 3: Touchscreen vs. e-ink

    How to read ebooks, Part 3: Touchscreen vs. e-ink

    Here’s part 3 of my little series of posts about ebooks and ereaders! As I’ve mentioned on previous posts, this series of posts about how to read ebooks and what ereader you might want to get focuses on what reading devices I’ve had personal experience with: the nook and the iPhone. The nook: E-ink is…

  • How to read ebooks, Part 2: Ebook pricing

    How to read ebooks, Part 2: Ebook pricing

    This is the post where I get a bit into the agency pricing model, how it’s affected what books you can buy where, and how much you can expect to pay for them.

  • How to read ebooks, Part 1: Ebook formats

    How to read ebooks, Part 1: Ebook formats

    Depending on where you get your ebooks from, they’ll come in several different and often proprietary formats. If you’ve been an ebook reader for a while, you’ll know as well that several formats that used to be in play have fallen out of favor. It can get pretty confusing pretty fast. So this post is…

  • What kind of e-reader should you get? Posts to come!

    What kind of e-reader should you get? Posts to come!

    As y’all know, I’m an e-author as well as a voracious reader of ebooks. So I get asked about this semi-regularly, and just this afternoon keethrax was the latest person to ask me about recommendations for e-readers. So I thought I’d do me a series of posts about ebooks and e-reading devices. I don’t have…