Focusing ebooks and ereaders
E-readers: To be open or not to be open — that is the question
By Matt Hamblen | ComputerWorld
As e-readers grow in popularity, a debate is growing about how well proprietary formats such as Amazon.com uses with the kindle will do against more open approaches that allow users to download e-books to just about any device.
LibreDigital Inc. is previewing its AllAccess content delivery platform to allow publishers, authors and [...]
Gizmodo Australia Reports e-books are Disappearing from Kindle Store
Gizmodo Australiahas published a very disheatening piece for Australian kindle lovers or prospective kindle buyers:
…..there seems to be something happening with publishers pulling out of the kindle Store – or at least the Australian store.
“The first book I purchased for the kindle was Raymond Feist’s Krondor: The Betrayal. It’s the first book in a collection [...]
Where Are One Million Nook e-books? I Kind of Got Them, But………..
As soon as B&N announced nook stating that over one million e-books were available downloadable including Google Books for nook, people got puzzled trying to find out where are those books. I even tried to find the actual number of e-books available on B&N’s e-book site. Unlike amazon, B&N’s cataloging of e-books seems little weird. [...]
Is Book Sharing Really a Threat to Publishing?
By Kirk Biglione | MediaLoper
Last week bookseller Barnes and Noble unveiled the nook, its long-awaited eReading device. Although ill-named, the nook is a worthy competitor to the kindle, offering a number of features not found on the Amazon device, including LendMe, a feature that allows for controlled sharing of ebooks. While the sharing feature [...]
ECTACO jetBook-Lite is the Cheapest e-reader in the Market Now
Ectaco have announced the world’s cheapest e-reader jetBook-lite at $149.95. According to the company: “The main difference between the ordinary jetBook and the jetBook Lite is the fact that the accumulators are replaced by usual AA batteries which does not only make it possible to reduce the price, but to also economize energy used by [...]
Congratulations B&N, you’ve built my Kindroid. So now what?
By Jason Perlow| zdnet
The Barnes and Noble “nook”, which was launched earlier this month, is the real-life version of the “Kindroid” I envisioned one year ago. So now that it has been built for real, what do we do with it?
A year ago, I posited that Amazon might do better with the kindle platform if [...]
Australian Publishers Rejects Kindle, Likely to Accept Apple Slate As Apple & Amazon Follow Opposite Revenue Sharing Models
The Sydney Morning Herald published a report back in August quoting Fairfax’s director of marketing and newspaper sales, Robert Whitehead: “Their business model represents a very unattractive partnership deal for newspaper publishers” since Amazon keeps 70% of the revenue. Today the Daily reports another news titled “Apple shops tablet around Australia” detailing that Apple has [...]
Plastic Logic QUE will be Sold By B&N, Nook is the Top Seller
Plastic Logic and Barnes & Noble have announced on Tuesday that Plastic Logic’s Que e-Reader will be sold through Barnes & Noble’s retail stores and on B&N’s Web site in 2010. I hope you remember a short post two weeks back on this site titled, Que Reader From Plastic Logic: 8.5″X11″,Touch Screen, AT&T 3G, Wi-Fi, [...]
Apple Tablet / MacBook Touch is Apple Slate: Not Rumor, Seems Imminent
“….We need to figure out the right journalistic product to deliver to mobile platforms and devices. I’m hoping we can get the newsroom more actively involved in the challenge of delivering our best journalism in the form of Times Reader, iPhone apps, WAP, or the impending Apple slate, or whatever comes after that…” says Bill [...]
e-Reader + NetBook: Entourage Edge: e-Ink + LCD – Dual Screen
A virginia-based company Entourage has announced a dual-screen e-reader+netbook. It acts as an e-reader, but also allows users to write notes or highlight text, send emails and instant messages, browse the Web, take pictures, record and play audio as well as [...]
Kindle for PC Coming Soon, Kindle for Mac Later
Amazon was always reluctant releasing any desktop software to read kindle books. Now after B&N’s announcement of nook Amazon has taken some steps to make kindle more competitive and friendly by cutting the price of international kindle and announcing kindle for PC very soon. Here is the list what you can do with kindle for [...]
E-Readers: The Most Recent Future
by Eric Nicolas | The Recent Future
Remember back in the 1980s companies were making dedicated word processors that were a hybrid typewriter/computer approach? They were actually fairly popular until PC prices came down and made them redundant. Now, technology is approaching The Written Word from the opposite angle: reading. Before long companies will realize that [...]
Nook Might be Available in B&N Store as Early as November 20
Reader.ly describes a fascinating experience as as an avid and enthusiastic e-book lover in search of nook at a B&N store which is supposed to be available November 30. The conversation with sales person seems to suggest that nook will be available in-store November 20. Here is the relevant section from Reader.ly:
Finally I spotted a [...]
To Buy or Not to Buy: Nook Frequently Asked Questions
Nobody has any hand-on experience of nook yet. No videos or review of nook is available except what B&N had already provided us. The website is not yet detail enough to get a complete idea about nook. B&N is far behind the marketing strategies when compared to amazon’s launch of kindle. Even though lot of [...]
Amazon’s Response to Nook: Kindle 2 Price Cut, Kindle for iPhone Update, Kindle for PC, & a Possible Kindle 3 Release Soon
Amazon has dropped the price of international kindle to $259, and announced there would be no kindle 2 US. Previously there were two version of kindle: kindle 2 US, and kindle 2 International. From now on, there will be one kindle 2 – kindle 2 international. So now there is a perfect match of prices [...]
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