eBooksale this weekend: 50% off on all titles purchased on AllRomanceeBooks.com and OmniLit.com if you use the code SBTBARe1. My romantic fantasy book, The Frog Prince’s Daughters, is usually only $4, but you can try it for $2 if you buy it today.
The big news in ebook world is of course the release of the Apple iPad. It’s such big news there seems little point linking to any of the thousands of articles about it, since I’m sure you’ve read about it already. It has, as usual, garnered the usual backlash and griping that results when any product gets this much hype. [Some of the complaints are just silly -- it's too big? That's what the Touch is for. It hasn't got a camera? Why the hell do people want cameras in every device anyway? It doesn't have a phone in it? That's because it's not actually meant to be a phone; it can be used with the Skype app; and who planned to hold something that size up to their head anyway? The name is dumb? Did iPod sound all that sensible when it first came out?] I read the same sort of complaints about the Touch, and yet the Touch is incredibly successful among the people it was actually designed to be sold to…The real test comes from real use of the iBook app and store, and I look forward to reading those specific reviews.
Teleread has a link to and commentary on an essay about Picard’s Syndrome, the attitude that physical books are better than ebooks. Teleread is great to follow if you’re interested in ebooks and ebook reading.
