Kindle in public libraries?

According to an article on ReadWriteWeb, "The CEO of OverDrive, which distributes e-books and audiobooks to libraries, has dropped a pretty obvious hint that the Kindle will join other major e-readers in public libraries in September. EarlyWord reports that Steve Potash looked "like a kid with a delicious secret" at OverDrive's Digipalooza conference last weekend, saying that he was "not allowed to announce a date ye[t]," but he included this blunt clue in his "Crystal Ball Report" during the final session:


Streamlining (both downloading and ordering)
Explosion (we have gone from two reading devices to 85 and more are coming)
Premium (the library catalog as the most premium, value-added site on the Web)
Traffic (enormous growth coming by year's end).


I find this agreement very interesting.  It is great news for public libraries and the general public, but not for school libraries.  Recently Amazon made the statement that a separate email address for each device is required.  This requirement seems a bit unruly for school libraries with numerous Kindles.   Is this Amazon's way of forcing school libraries to subscribe to Overdrive?  However, the policy just might send school libraries to the Nook!

Self-published author sells over a million books for Kindle

John Locke, a self-published author sells over a million books for Kindle on Amazon.com.   MSN reports the "Amazon.com recently announced that Locke is the eighth author to sell over one million Kindle books — over 1,010,370 — to become the newest member of the "Kindle Million Club," and the first independently published author to do so. Using Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Locke has made protagonist Donovan Creed a household — or at least a beach and bedside reading — presence that would probably make plenty of print-only authors envious."

I haven't read any of these books, but the last time I looked on Amazon most of Locke's the books were selling for 99 cents.  Surely an inspiration for other authors.

Barnes & Noble sales

A recent press release from Barnes & Noble announced an overall loss of dollars, but soaring  ebook sales:



"The rapidly growing digital business propelled the top-line at BN.com driven by the company’s NOOK™ eReader product line and digital content from the NOOK Bookstore™.  BN.com comparable sales growth accelerated throughout the year, increasing 78% for the fourth quarter and 65% for the full year as compared to the same periods in fiscal 2010.  BN.com sales were $217 million for the quarter and $858 million for the full year."

Another way to get free Kindle books

Came across this site by accident -- eReaderIQ.com:

"eReaderIQ provides Amazon Kindle price drop alerts, watches your favorite titles to let you know when they are available for Kindle, and gives you a regularly updated list of all non-public domain freebies on Amazon.com. We also offer a superior search engine which not only lets you search the Kindle store by genre and keyword, but also lets you define the price range, reader age, language and more!"

The service is free and easy to use.

ebook sources

Lately I've been seeing more and more ebook sources (free and not free).  Below are a few:

         "The largest independent eBook store globally, BooksOnBoard - headquartered in Austin, Texas - opened in 2006 and offers eBooks and audio books in six different formats, including the industry standard Adobe ePUB format, available from all the major publishers and most of the smaller ones. With 7 day a week support, BooksOnBoard never closes for its customers, having thousands of unsolicited testimonials from happy support customers...."       $$$

 The World's classic literature at your fingertips. Over 1,000,000 free ebook titles available.

"LendInk is a free service that allows you to connect with other book lovers, loan your lendable eBooks in seconds and find new books to borrow."

15 Best websites to find and download ebooks

15 Best Websites to Find and Download ebooks   (many of these websites are technology related).