Quote Of The Day: Jenn Topper

I’m unsure anything needs to be priced more than $10. It’s a fucking book, not a piece of gold.

Consumption Paradigms: PART I

Digital Book: The Whale Hunt

This is just extraordinary!

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GUD’s Pricing Experiment

What is GUD?

GUD (pronounced “good”) is Greatest Uncommon Denominator, an award-winning print/pdf magazine with two hundred pages of literary and genre fiction, poetry, art, and articles.

Our hardcopy issues are 5″x8″, slightly narrower than a mainstream paperback but solid in the hands and easy to read.

GUD’s also available on the Kindle, and in a number of eBook formats via Fictionwise, and beautiful PDF straight from us! Need more convincing? Check out what critics have said about us.

I’d never heard of this before. They’re doing a pricing experiment:

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Pay What You Want!

We’ve given you deals before, but nothing quite like this. Now’s the best time to get a PDF of any issue of GUD–for whatever price you like (minimum one US cent; though we don’t see a cent unless you pay more than 5 cents; and half the net of every sale goes back to our contributors. Help us bump their advances from semi-pro to earned-out pro rates?

Apparently the experiment extends only to the PDF version purchased directly from their website.

But if it looks interesting to you, go for the eBook version via the stores they mention.

The Fine Print = Apple iTablet WIN!

In a prior post, I teased all of you with this:

What Vook’s running into here is precisely why the iTablet is going to be a monstrous hit — even beyond the monstrous hit of the iPhone. I won’t explain that statement right now. I’m saving that for a future post.

The post I did earlier today reminded me I should do this follow-up.

Buy A Vook For Less Than A Dollar!

If you’ve been curious about trying out one of the Vook digital books, now is the time to do so. They have a promotion going:

The Breakaway Japanese Kitchen

The Breakaway Japanese Kitchen vook is a revolutionary new way to follow the inspiring recipes of chef Eric Gower. You can now read Eric’s recipes, watch videos of Eric cooking the dishes or shopping for ingredients, and connect to Eric and the cooking community through social media.

Take the shot!

Previously here:

Jeff Jarvis Wanted To Vook
eBook Notes For Wednesday, November 4, 2009
eBook Notes For Monday, November 2, 2009
Reading Is NOT Sacrosanct!
eBook Notes For Tuesday October 13, 2009
eBook Notes For Monday, October 5, 2009
FTC Wants Bloggers To Disclose: My Disclosure
Why Digital Books Will Win
How To Properly Integrate Video Into Fiction Digital Books
Eveda: How NOT To Do A Digital Book
Vook Debuts Digital Books

Hybrid iPhone/Print Book Glimpse Of The Future

Thanks to the folks over at Vook who tweeted this to me:

What most people will fixate on is the paper.

Look beyond that.

With a 10″-screen tablet, there can be virtual pages bookending the interactivity in the center of the screen. In other words, imagine what you’re looking at above is a single screen.

I think Disney will be looking at this video keenly.

eBook Notes For Thursday November 12, 2009

Confessions of an Apple Manager-Turned-iPhone App Creator

How was Air Sharing received?

We gave it away for two weeks and later set the price at $7, lowered it to $5 and then introduced a more capable one for $10. I was optimistically thinking maybe 100,000 people would download it. But really I thought that was crazy talk.

As it turned out, a million downloaded it in two weeks—168,000 in the first day. That’s without advertising, no banner ads. It was just word-of-mouth and the power of the Internet.

I await figures like those for a digital book!

Dave Winer Asks THAT Question

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If you were taking a trip which would you want to pack?

Previously here:

The Horror Of Paper Books

Go Buy Winterland By Alan Glynn!

Winterland publisher website

Alan Glynn’s first novel, The Dark Fields, came out in 2002.

Close to eight long years later, Winterland will be his second — and it will be out in February 2010.

I’ve read The Dark Fields twice. I should do it a third time. It’s one of those rare books that sticks in your mind and has to be re-read.

Winterland will probably be just like that. Go buy it and find out.

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t pimp a book so far in advance, but Barnes & Noble is offering it at near one-third off as a pre-order.

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Think of this: If you pre-order it today, you get a great price. And in February, a package will arrive at your door unexpectedly — because you will have forgotten it by then. It will be very happy surprise!

The Dark Fields is out-of-print right now. But it’ll be back next year as a tie-in to the upcoming movie.

Meanwhile, buy Winterland.

Previously at Mike Cane 2008:

Writer Alan Glynn Speaks!
Calling Alan Glynn!

AMC’s The Prisoner: Digital Book Is Now Live!

Yesterday, as promised, AMC released the opening pages of the online digital book that will spin-off their re-imagined The Prisoner series.

It contains eleven screens and is a great example of how to do a graphic novel as a digital book.