Franklin eBookman finally available

The Franklin eBookman finally available in stores. The price ranges from $129 to $229. The only drawback is the limited number of books available for downloading. So far there are only around a hundred but there are thousands of free titles and digital audio books (the eBookman has an MP3 player built into it). They are presently available at Amazon.com and Staples.

Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier, a free eBook by Suelette Dreyfus and Julian Assange, has been downloaded nearly a quarter-million times over the past several weeks. The authors hope that downloads of the electronic version will help promote print sales. A big increase in downloads began after the book was publicized on http://www.Slashdot.com, a computer "geek" site. This puts Underground on the same level as Stephen King's Riding the Bullet and Seth Godwin's Unleashing the Ideavirus. And only entrenches the idea that eBooks are popular as long as they are free.

If you are looking for inexpensive eBooks, go to http://www.fictionwise.com. They have a great selection of eBooks are very reasonable prices (I'm not going to tell you how reasonable, you'll have to check it out yourself). Maybe it's the pricing but they have better than half the eBook bestseller list on their site. It is especially interesting to people looking for SciFi that hasn't been available for a while. And if you are a Harlan Ellison fan (as I am) then you'll be delighted to find many Ellison classics available there at prices that will blow you away.

More news from the world of eBooks follows:

Powells.com Adds Adobe, Microsoft eBook Titles

Powells.com, long one of the leading sources for eBooks in RocketEdition and Gemstar eBook formats, said today it will work with distributor Lightning Source to offer eBooks in Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader and Microsoft Reader formats. The move will bring Powells.com into parity with Barnesandnoble.com, the only other major online bookseller to offer eBooks in all three major formats.

http://www.ebooknet.com/story.jsp?id=4951

I Read Two Articles Today, Oh Boy

Columnist Kelly Ford is excited about electronic ink technology, but he's baffled by news articles that portray it as a way to create re-writeable bound books, with a cover and pages that you flip through like a classical paper book. "This strikes me as an extremely absurd notion" Ford writes, since it "forces electronic texts to abide by some of the limitations inherent in the [paper] medium."

http://www.ebooknet.com/story.jsp?id=4373

The Romance of ePublishing

Why do romance novels dominate the book catalogs of so many ePublishers? Maybe it's because they make great entertainment, with uplifting, relationship-driven themes. Columnist William Amos takes a special Valentine's Day look.

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