In ebook news this week


Sony’s Reader Store has had over ten million books downloaded, Sony announced in a press release yesterday. The top ten most downloaded books in their ebook store are:

1. “The Lost Symbol,” by Dan Brown
2. “I, Alex Cross,” by James Patterson
3. “Breaking Dawn,” by Stephenie Meyer
4. “Eclipse,” by Stephenie Meyer
5. “The Help,” by Kathryn Stockett
6. “Twilight,” by Stephenie Meyer
7. “New Moon,” by Stephenie Meyer
8. “The Lovely Bones,” by Alice Sebold
9. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,” by Stieg Larsson
10. “The Last Song,” by Nicholas Sparks

It looks like the Twilight crowd is into eReaders!


Barnes & Noble tweeted about a new HP ebook store and ereader available for HP computers.


Book News Related to the Flooding in Nashville, Tennessee (USA)


Romance Writers of America (RWA) had to move their 2010 Annual Conference to Orlando after the conference hotel in Nashville was flooded.


GalleyCat has a post about some Nashville-based writers that are putting together an auction to raise money for flood victims.


Closings


SMU Press may close down June 1st due to budget problems.  Authors and others are fighting to keep it open.


Other Book News


Internet Archive  has released that they now have one million books available in special format for the print disabled.  The books are downloaded to a device that reads it aloud.  Internet Archive also has two million free ebooks available to all.


The World Bank has placed a six year ban on Macmillan, blocking them from contracts due to payments made in an attempt to secure a textbook printing contract in Sudan.


One Book, One Twitter started this week with their reading of American Gods by Neil Gaiman.  The twitter discussion schedule is up.  The Twitter hashtag is #1b1t.


Bookseller.com has an interesting article about how the sales of the cookbook, Pasta Bible, increased dramatically after the word got out about an unfortunate typo.  A recipe mistakenly read “freshly ground black people” in place of “freshly ground black pepper.”

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