LJ Digital

http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/digital-strategies/213043/what-news-organizations-are-learning-from-their-ebook-efforts/

“We think [ebooks] are ideally suited to the rhythms of a newspaper, where we are writing the first draft of history every day,” Vince Bzdek, deputy national political editor and lead for ebooks at The Washington Post, said in an email. “Ebooks are like the second draft, so [it] feels like a natural fit for us.”

Thin Reads Covers eBook Singles Marketplace

*54% of all e-book singles available in the database are listed as Original, which means they were created especially as short works of non-fiction or fiction intended to be read on an electronic platform for its original release.
*12% of all e-book singles available in the database are listed as Encore, which means they were originally published or presented previously in another format. 2% of all e-book singles in the database are listed as Encore+, which means that new or updated content was added to a story that was previously published.
* 31% of e-book singles in the database are fiction. 69% are non-fiction. Narrative non-fiction accounted for 20% of all e-book singles in the database.

National Magazine Award includes two finalists from Byliner. From LAT article, “This is Byliner’s first year among the National Magazine Award finalists. It’s interesting that Byliner’s stories, which are individually delivered e-books, are in competition against works published in traditional monthly magazines: GQ, Wired, Harper’s, Texas Monthly, the New Yorker.” 

LJ Digital: This is a great breakthrough for the digital world. Ebooks are often brushed to the side and not taken seriously for consideration by avid readers. “The Living and the Dead,” Brian Mockenhaupt’s true story of American Marines in Afghanistan and novelist Jennifer Haigh’s short story, “The Boy Vanishes,” made the cut for the prestigious award. Check them out at Byliner’s website. 

LJ Digital: Thanks, 50 Shades of Grey.

infoneer-pulse:

Many of us will accumulate vast libraries of digital books and music over the course of our lifetimes. But when we die, our collections of words and music may expire with us.

Someone who owned 10,000 hardcover books and the same number of vinyl records could bequeath them to descendants, but legal experts say passing on iTunes and Kindle libraries would be much more complicated.

And one’s heirs stand to lose huge sums of money. “I find it hard to imagine a situation where a family would be OK with losing a collection of 10,000 books and songs,” says Evan Carroll, co-author of “Your Digital Afterlife.” “Legally dividing one account among several heirs would also be extremely difficult.”

» via MarketWatch

LJ Digital: Interesting. Who would you leave your digital belongings to?