Hey all, I hope this post is correctly placed and kosher. If not, I have a faith an admin will delete it.
I've been in the ebook world for a long time, working at startup JStream/Infinite Ink in Portland OR in 1998 when mobile reading devices were Palms and Rocket books. Earlier this summer I created a blog called Ebooks From TV -
http://www.ebooksfromtv.com . The goal of this thing to is to blog for every single book author that 1) appears on either national TV or local TV with embeddable online video and that 2) has an ebook version of their books out within the last year. I'm not near that goal yet but I'm always trying to get closer.
I'm also as reader agnostic as I can be. I've got links in there to Kindle versions, Nook, Kobo and also to the Powells bookstore depending on availability. I have scripts that gather the links and each post should have all the links to all available stores from the above list.
The project came out of a bar conversation at the Balticon science fiction convention. I was describing my book buying dynamic from watching TV which was if I saw an author that seemed interesting on The Colbert Report or The Daily Show, I would either buy their book for my Kindle right then or never think about the book again. Someone suggested "why not a blog that collects all those resources so you can come back to them easily?" Why not indeed? So I came home and built the damn thing. I hope people find it useful.
I'm always looking for feedback on shows covered and readers supported. If there is something the site could do to make it more useful to you, let me know and I'll see if I can do that. Kobo support went online recently because of reader requests and I'm all ears for other suggestions.
suggestions@ebooksfromtv.com is where to send those, as well as pointers to local TV author appearances you think are blog worthy.
Thanks all. Keep on reading!