Tag: Amazon

Caneday’s Book Now on Kindle

Los Angeles columnist Patrick Caneday reminded fellow NSNC members at NSNCdiscussions@yahoogroups.com that his book is now available on Kindle and is free to borrow for Amazon Prime members. Crooked Little Birdhouse: Random Thoughts on Being Human is a collection of Caneday’s “Small Wonders” columns that have appeared in the Glendale News Press and Burbank Leader. But,…

Death of a Bookstore Chain

Borders closed 200 stores nationwide in February and announced last week that it’s going out of business for good. Market experts believe that Borders was unable to compete with cheaper online retailers and  electronic readers. We can see a parallel between the decline of the book industry and the decline of the newspaper industry. E-readers…

eBook sales soar

Recently, Amazon announced that ebooks sold for the Kindle now outnumber the hardcover books they sell. The Kindle, in case you are a technosarus,  is an electronic reader developed by Amazon.com that allows books to be downloaded electronically and read on the device. The Kindle eReader has been around since 2007, but only recently came…