Tuesday 16 September 2008

EBooks and University presses

Some university presses are now releasing e-books for Amazon's portable reader Kindle two weeks prior to the print release date. Princeton University Press apparently unsuccessfully experimented with e-distribution in the past but reckon the time is now ripe for scholarly material to be disseminated in this way.

Read more
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/06/24/kindle

1 comment:

Roger said...

Here is some pretty interesting commentary on Kindle. The whole publishing paradigm could be shifting here!
http://www.commoncraft.com/independent-publishing-amazons-kindle-two-stories