Google eBookstore thrives as Brick and Mortar BookStores Fade

• ebook Publishing just now
  Aptara Survey Reveals the Latest Impacts of eBooks on the Publishing Market {http://imgs.sfgate.com/graphics/busine...
• Google eBookstore 5 minutes ago
  Hands on: Google eBook readers December 10, 2010 - 2:56PM Be the first to comment {http://images.smh.com.au/2010/12/...
• Google eBookstore 13 minutes ago
  Friend or foe? Google, indie book sellers team up By , December 09, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Struggling neighborh...
• Kobo books Today 7:22 am
  Kobo Brings Social Aspects to E-Book Reading By: Mark Hachman 12.09.2010 The Kobo application for the iPad on Wednes...
• e-reader Sales Figures Today 7:19 am
  6 Million eBook Readers sold in 2010 and it’s all down to the Nook, Sony Touch and Amazon Kindle Posted on December...
• Google eBookstore Yesterday 10:19 pm
  Hands on: Google eBooks store December 8, 2010 - 9:46AM Comments **4** {http://images.theage.com.au/2010/12/08/20850...
• Barnes and Noble business Yesterday 10:13 pm
  UPDATE: Ackman Offers To Finance Borders Buyout Of Barnes & Noble DOW JONES NEWSWIRES DECEMBER 6, 2010, 7:07 A...
• 2010 wrap up Yesterday 10:10 pm
  eBook Predictions Are Futile Read More: Barnes And Noble , Book Publishing , Ebooks , Google , Ipad , Kindle , NY Ti...
• Amazon Kindle Yesterday 10:03 pm
  Kindle named gadget of the year Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader has been crowned product of the year by gadget website...
• Amazon Kindle for the Web Wednesday, 7:09 am
  Update: Amazon to demo Kindle for the Web on Tuesday Demo is one day after Google announces eBooks; battle shapes up...
• Amazon Kindle for the Web Wednesday, 6:59 am
  Amazon Responds to Google eBookstore with Kindle for the Web By Brennon Slattery, PCWorld Dec 8, 2010 3:10 am Amazon...

An e-reader for Christmas?

• e-readers compared just now
  Gift Guide: Tablet and e-reader Buying advice DANA WOLLMAN Associated Press Posted December 4, 2010 at 2:31 p.m. NEW...
• e-reader availability 10 minutes ago
  Tablets vs. e-readers and ebooks in Australia John Birmingham Technology and Games 2 Dec 2010 {http://www.abc.net.au...
• Google Books 14 minutes ago
  Google E-Book Service Launching to Challenge Amazon, Apple By: Clint Boulton 2010-12-01 Article Rating: {http://www....
• Kobo books Thursday, 9:23 pm
  Kobo Wireless eReader review: How it compares to the Amazon Kindle 3 By CHAD SKELTON 1 DEC 2010 COMMENTS(5) PARENTIN...
• Apple iPad as e-reader Thursday, 9:13 pm
  Kindle Rapidly Losing Share To iPad E-reader market penetration for Apple's tablet computer has increased 16 percen...
• Do we really want to curl up with an e-book? Thursday, 7:32 am
  =Older readers kindle fondness for e-readers= By BILL WARD Star Tribune (Minneapolis) MINNEAPOLIS - Judy Ellis, 67,...
• Project Gutenberg Thursday, 7:30 am
  Kindle users are paying for free Project Gutenberg books December 1, 2010 by Susan Wilson Amazon will turn a buck an...
• Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader Thursday, 7:13 am
  E-ReaderReview: Nookcolor Is Best Dedicated E-Reader by The Associated Press {http://media.npr.org/images/ap//AP_New...
• Google Books Thursday, 6:57 am
  Google Editions Coming Soon The book business is about to get a wake up call from Google. By **Thomas Claburn** , ...

Bookselling Disaster in Australia as e-readers multiply

• Sony Readers Today 4:50 pm
  Hands On: 5-inch Sony Reader Pocket Edition November 26, 2010 {http://images.theage.com.au/2010/11/26/2065874/Rea...
• Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader Today 12:51 pm
  E-Reader Wars: Nook Color Takes on the Kindle By Harry McCracken Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010 {http://img.timeinc.net/...
• Apple iPad as e-reader Thursday, 8:42 am
  The iPad may be the best universal ebook reader thanks to Bluefire Reader By Matthew Miller | November 23, 2010, 7:3...
• Apple iPad future Nov 22, 2010 9:08 am
  iPad 2.0: What We Think We Know Reports are slipping out about the components Apple is ordering, so we can craft a c...
• Redgroup Retail (Aust) news Nov 18, 2010 9:49 pm
  Chief executive leaves Redgroup Retail REBECCA STEVENSON - BusinessDay.co.nz The chief executive of Redgroup Retail...
• Redgroup Retail (Aust) news Nov 18, 2010 9:43 pm
  Bookstore chain looks for condensed version Eli Greenblat November 18, 2010 REDGROUP RETAIL has lost its chief exec...
• e-reader availability Nov 18, 2010 8:21 am
  HMV wants yoof ereader market Jumps into bed with View Quest on Bookbox By David Neal Wed Nov 17 2010, 13:55 MUSIC...
• Google Books Nov 18, 2010 8:18 am
  Google, Hachette ink accord on book scanning By Leila Abboud Wed Nov 17, 2010 11:26am EST PARIS (Reuters) - Google ...
• ebook Publishing Nov 18, 2010 8:14 am
  An E-Book Bonanza: 12 Saramago Novels By JULIE BOSMAN November 17, 2010, 3:05 pm In another digital publishing exp...

Colour e-readers arrive at Barnes and Noble

• Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader Yesterday 12:29 pm
  Barnes & Noble Nook Color: The Unboxing By: David Pierce 11.16.2010 Before we tested the new Barnes & Noble ...
• Do we really want to curl up with an e-book? Yesterday 12:19 pm
  Amazon Kindle vs. Paper books: Which is better? By Chad Skelton 15 Nov 2010 COMMENTS(12) Parenting: Curious Dad Fil...
• Apple iBooks Yesterday 12:16 pm
  Nov. 16, 2010, 11:00 a.m. EST Hundreds of Pearson Books for Home & Office Computer Users and IT Professionals N...
• e-reader availability Monday, 12:29 pm
• Great Holiday Expectations for E-Readers {http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/11/15/business/ereadersjump-12896...
• e-reader availability Monday, 12:26 pm
  eReaders have arrived November 15, 2010, 11:43am Seeing how successful the iPad has been for the past few months, no...
• ebook Sales Sunday, 12:44 am
• ...The Times will also redesign the section of its Sunday Book Review that features the best-seller lists. The Times ...
• ebook Sales Sunday, 12:40 am
  ...By JULIE BOSMAN Published: November 10, 2010 In an acknowledgment of the growing sales and influence of digital pu...
• ebook Sales Sunday, 12:39 am
  Here's how Amazon took the lead in the billion-dollar ebook market — and why they'll dominate Times Will Rank E-Book...
• Books give way to e-readers Sunday, 12:35 am
  Are you ready for eBooks? aturner | November 11, 2010 Are you ready to turn your back on the printed page? eBooks ar...
• Books give way to e-readers Nov 10, 2010 12:44 pm
  FP Tech Desk: eBook business heats up as sales projections surpass US$1-billion...
• Books give way to e-readers Here's how Amazon took the lead in the billion-dollar ebook market — and why they'll dominate...

Colour e-ink readers coming

• e-readers compared 5 minutes ago
  Streaks ahead but can you put it in your pocket? Charlotte Harper November 9, 2010 - 4:55PM {http://images.smh.com....
• Do we really want to curl up with an e-book? 16 minutes ago
  5 Reasons You Don't Need an E-Book Reader By Barbara E. Hernandez, PCWorld Complete PCWorld Coverage {http://images...
• e-reader technologies 24 minutes ago
  Sources And Readers Mixed About True Impact Of eReaders The Huffington Post | Sammy Perlmutter First Posted: 11- 9-...
• Bookstore eBook Dilemma Yesterday 7:22 am
  ...even as I wonder what will replace that bookstore-shaped whole in my leisure time. Already I spend a fair amount o...
• Bookstore eBook Dilemma Yesterday 7:18 am
  ...I'm Barnes & Noble's Nightmare Customer {http://www.popmatters.com/images/news_art/b/barnes-and-noble-booksell...
• e-reader Sales Figures Yesterday 7:10 am
  And the Most Popular Way to Read an E-Book Is … By John C Abell {http://www.wired.com/epicenter/wp-content/themes...
• ebook Sales Yesterday 7:06 am
  Readers spending $966 million on eBooks Digital book industry to swell to $3 billion by 2015, according to Forrester...
• e-readers compared Monday, 8:00 am
  Apple’s iPad lead will soon face pressure from Google and Nokia Honeymoon is over for Steve jobs By Wireless Watch •...
• Apple iPad (Tablet) rumours Sunday, 8:13 pm
  =New iPad 2 Commercials Already Shot in New York by Photographer David Sims? [Apple Is Rumored to Have Already Shot t...
• Amazon Kindle Sunday, 8:11 pm
  =Two New Kindle Ads Released in Time for Christmas [Amazon Comes Up With Two New Kindle Commercials, This Time Withou...
• Apple iPad is here to stay (Fry) Sunday, 8:04 pm
  Gartner’s got it: Get iPad, gogo gangbusters! By Alex Zaharov-Reutt Saturday, 06 November 2010 18:25 When Steve Jobs...

E-Book Price Rise

• ebook Prices

  Readers give authors including Stephen King one-star reviews in concerted campaign against price rises for Kindle digital editions
• Publisher's Strategies 35 minutes ago
  Is the ebook the new hardback? Publishers are speculating that they might amplify pre-paperback word of mouth by gi...
• ebook availability Yesterday 9:44 pm
  Fleming estate to publish James Bond e-books 03.11.10 | PhilipPhilip Jones Ian Fleming's James Bond books are to b...
• Barnes and Noble business Yesterday 9:39 pm
  The NookColor Won’t Save Barnes and Noble The NookColor Won't Save Barnes and Noble ... little too late. Nov.late.N...
• Future of the Book Yesterday 9:36 pm
  ...Will physical books be gone in five years? By Cody Combs, CNN ... a.m. EDT | Filed under: Innovation {http://www.c...
• Future of the Book Yesterday 9:28 pm
  Kevin Kelly on Future Tech Book...
  
  

E-Lending on the Kindle

• Amazon Kindle just now
  E-Lending and E-Periodicals, the future of Kindle? Written on November 2, 2010 at 5:28 am by Jac...
• Amazon Kindle 2 minutes ago
  Amazon'sTop 10 Amazon Kindle Irritations By Keir Thomas, PCWorld I've have a Kindle 3 for a mont...
• Amazon Kindle Yesterday 9:24 pm
  Amazon's 3G Kindle leaps 'Great Firewall of China' November 2, 2010 - 2:09AM {http://images.smh...
• ebook FAQ Oct 28, 2010 9:57 pm
  Ebook Go-To Guide ARTICLE DATE: 10.27.10 By Eric Griffith Once upon a time—like two years ago...
• Amazon Kindle Oct 28, 2010 9:34 pm
  Amazon Kindle Outselling Previous E-Reader Versions: Company **Share** By: Nicholas Kolakowski ...
• Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader Oct 27, 2010 9:42 pm
  =NookBarnes and Noble launches colour Nook ebook reader Ebook reader boasts 7 inch colour touchs...
• Digital Books Oct 25, 2010 8:07 pm
  Blurring the Line Between Apps and Books By NOAM COHEN Published: October 24, 2010 ...Peter DaS...
• Digital Books Oct 25, 2010 8:03 pm
  {http://cdn.oreilly.com/radar/images/people/photo_andrew_s.jpg} Blurring the Line Between Apps an...
• Amazon Kindle Oct 25, 2010 11:24 am
  Kindle helps Amazon sales jump 39 percent By Nicole Kobie on Oct 25, 2010 8:20 AM Kindle sales h...
• Future of the Book Oct 24, 2010 5:14 pm
  ...Chris Grayson wrote: "Because when a no-name author that nobody reads and cannot get a bo...

ebooks and pbooks will co-exist, or will pbooks disappear in 5 years?

• ebooks and p-books will co-exist 4 minutes ago
  In a Digital Age, Students Still Cling to Paper Textbooks By LISA W. FODERARO Published: October...
• e-reader availability 57 minutes ago
  Digital Reading Finds a New Home at Walmart By SARAH WEINMAN Posted 7:50 AM 10/22/10 Company Ne...
• Pandigital e-reader Today 7:34 am
  Pandigital introduces second Novel e-reader October 19, 2010 11:30 AM PDT by David Carnoy {http:...
• Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader Today 7:30 am
  =Source: New=Nook Fanboys Agree: We're Idiots= Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry, provided by {http://imgs....
• Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader Yesterday 7:39 am
  =Source: New Nook is Android-based, full-color= October 21, 2010 11:30 AM PDT by David Carnoy ...
• Tablet PCs Thursday, 7:36 am
  Negroponte: One Laptop Per Child is now a $75 Android Tablet Posted by Seth Weintraub May 27, 20...
• Future of the Book Thursday, 7:34 am
  The End Of Books. The Beginning Of Reading. How The Peace Corps Could Make A Difference! Posted...
• Future of the Book Thursday, 7:32 am
  Will physical books be gone in five years? By Cody Combs, CNN October 18, 2010 10:56 a.m. EDT 
• ebook readership Wednesday, 9:49 pm
  More bibliophiles get on the same page with digital readers Updated 9h 10m ago | Comments **14*...
• Education and e-readers Wednesday, 9:34 pm
  Japan to pilot digital textbooks in primary schools soon By IBTimes Staff Reporter | September 2...
• ebook Publishing Wednesday, 7:23 am
  How some ebooks don't look good

iBooks from Apple a dismal failure

• ebook Prices Yesterday 4:04 pm
  Publishers' crazy e-book prices {http://www.thebookseller.co.uk/images/uploaded/6897.jpg} Weldo...
• Apple iBooks Yesterday 4:00 pm
  {http://www.internetretailer.com/images/spacer.gif} iBookstore is a “dismal failure” says David W...
• Amazon.com v. Book publishers Thursday, 8:39 am
  Amazon Kindle Singles: longer than an article, cheaper than a book By: Geoff Duncan October 12, ...
• Do we really want to curl up with an e-book? Oct 11, 2010 8:35 pm
  {http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2010/10/05/E-reader_in_drawer_610x458.jpg} Wordstock authors ...
• Do we really want to curl up with an e-book? Oct 11, 2010 8:28 pm
  Wordstock authors see quality trumping technology in the pursuit of readers Published: Sunday, O...
• DRM and Copyright Oct 11, 2010 10:24 am
  Adobe Rewrites PDF Reader for Security By John E Dunn, Techworld.com Oct 11, 2010 12:28 am Adobe...
• Book design and ebooks Oct 11, 2010 10:17 am
  7 Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs By Tom Kaneshige, CIO Oct 11, 2010 5:15 am In 1972, Steve Job...
• Book design and ebooks Oct 11, 2010 10:11 am
  Kindle, iPad must rethink design in order to stay relevant iPad's design 'horrifying' as e-book ...
• ebooks and p-books will co-exist Oct 11, 2010 9:59 am
  The printed book is not dead yet I've got two things to say to all you smug ebook evangelists: a...
• ebooks and p-books will co-exist Oct 10, 2010 8:05 pm
  August When eReaders nudge into bookshelves D. Murali {http://www.thehindu.com/multimedia/dynami...

Self Publishing digitally

• Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader just now
  Self-publish Books and Profit with B&N's PubIt! 4:10 AM - October 6, 2010 - By Jane McEntega...
• Apple iPad Apps Friday, 7:15 am
  =No iPad smashes adoption records as Aussies get app fever Asher Moses October 7, 2010 - 1:32PM...
• ebook Piracy Thursday, 8:53 pm
  New study suggests e-book piracy is on the rise by David Carnoy October 6, 2010 4:54 PM PDT {htt...
• Amazon Kindle App Thursday, 8:48 pm
  The Latest E-Reader Applications: Amazon, Blio, Kalahari: There But for the Grace of God… by Ben...
• ebook Prices Thursday, 6:21 am
  Publishers' crazy e-book prices {http://images.salon.com/img/squib/overhead_danGillmor.gif} Dan ...
• Kobo books Oct 6, 2010 9:03 pm
  E-publishing’s ‘pure play’ Upstart Kobo is holding its own by sticking to digital books Matt Har...
• Do we really want to curl up with an e-book? Oct 6, 2010 8:56 pm
  {http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2010/10/05/E-reader_in_drawer_610x458.jpg} October 5, 2010 3:...
• ebook Prices Oct 5, 2010 9:44 pm
  2 E-Books Cost More Than Amazon Hardcovers JULIE BOSMAN Published: Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 5...
• Kobo books Oct 5, 2010 9:40 pm
  Kindle’s real competition is Kobo, not iBooks October 4, 2010 By Martin Hoscik Leave a Comment K...

Death of the Bookstore?

• Future of the Book 4 minutes ago
  We'll all lose money. And then we'll learn Submitted by Gayle Feldman on Tue, 09/28/2010 - 14:18...
• Amazon Kindle Today 12:46 pm
  Kindle for Web Introduced Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 | Filed under Internet | Posted by Tec...
• e-reader mobility Today 11:42 am
  Case Study: Lonely Planet's augmented reality guides Submitted by Sam Missingham on Fri, 09/24/...
• Digital Books Today 11:27 am
  {http://cdn.oreilly.com/radar/images/people/photo_andrew_s.jpg} Andrew Savikas Neat visualizatio...
• Libraries digitize Today 11:23 am
  What will new libraries look like? By Michael Morton/Daily News staff Posted Oct 03, 2010 @ 12:...
• Future of Magazines Today 11:08 am
  ...by Jim Stogdill | @jstogdill | Comments: 43 | 13 April 2010 "You don't want your phone to...

ebooks outselling hardcover edtion(s)

• Do we really want to curl up with an e-book? 14 minutes ago
  Device update: Analyzing the publishing value chain Ereaders get the attention for now; new tabl...
• Kobo books Yesterday 7:18 am
  Borders Releases Kobo Wi-Fi Version Amazon's cheapest Kindle e-reader is on par in price and w...
• e-reader mobility Yesterday 7:02 am
  Google Says Mobile Will Dwarf the Web; Microsoft Could be the Loser One day mobile searches and ...
• Kobo books Thursday, 10:05 pm
  Amazon one-upped in RIM tablet ebook duel Canucks unite By Rik Myslewski in San Francisco • Get ...
• ebook Publishing Thursday, 9:55 pm
  Are E-Books Killing the Literary Novel? Nonsense By Marion Maneker | September 29, 2010 These se...
• Blio e-reader software Wednesday, 8:49 pm
  Ray Kurzweil's e-reader turns a page ... AM PDT {http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2010/09/27/Bl...
• Blio e-reader software Wednesday, 8:43 pm
  Ray Kurzweil's e-reader turns a page by Ina Fried September 28, 2010 8:00 AM PDT {http://i.i.com...
• Libraries digitize Wednesday, 8:37 pm
  Library can't lend an eBook to Kindle user {http://stmedia.startribune.com/images/columnSig_ale...
• e-readers compared Wednesday, 7:25 am
  Best eBook reader: Kindle, Kobo or Sony Reader? By Chad Skelton 27 Sep 2010 COMMENTS(13) Parenti...

eBooks Sales Increasing

• e-reader Sales Figures Today 2:20 pm
  
  
  Quercus sees e-book sales at 10% of revenue in 18 months By Tommy Stubbington, Dow Jones Newswir...
• Amazon Kindle Today 2:07 pm
  
  
  Steven Levy on Kindles in the Tabletized World By Steven Levy {http://www.wired.com/magazine/wp...
• ebook readership Today 1:53 am
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  Aspiring authors fail to click during e-book emergence September 26, 2010 By Jeff...
• ebook readership Today 1:34 am
  
  
  Ereader Users Likely to Read More, Buy More Books, Study Says EmailPrint |Reprint/License |Subsc...
• ebook readership Yesterday 1:37 am
  
  
  Nearly 1 in 10 using e-readers, pollEreader Users Likely to Read More, Buy More Books, Study Say...
• Amazon Kindle App Sep 23, 2010 2:24 pm
  
  
  Amazon spruces up Kindle Android app, but... by Stephen Shankland September 23, 2010 12:06 PM P...
• Digital Publishing (ebooks) Sep 23, 2010 4:51 am
  
  
  A Trial for Conventional Book Publishing By Heidi B Malhotra Epoch Times StaffCreated: Sep 23, 2...
• Education and e-readers Sep 23, 2010 4:42 am
  
  
  Education departments go wild for the iPad by Jenna Pitcher on Wednesday, September 22, 2010 14...
• ebook readership Sep 22, 2010 2:27 pm
  
  
  Nearly 1 in 10 using e-readers, poll says by Lance Whitney September 22, 2010 9:36 AM PDT Read...

e-books and the Apple iPad

• Do we really want to curl up with an e-book? Today 7:02 am
  5 Reasons You Need an Ereader Tuesday - 12:00PM by GeekSugar
• Apple iPad as e-reader Today 7:00 am
  If iPad Wants to Be All the E-Reader It Can Be ... {http://www.macnewsworld.com/images/rw214547/...
• Who needs publishers, bookstores or even books? Today 6:47 am
   How to Digitize Your Textbooks {http://s.huffpost.com/contributors/hack-college/headshot.jpg...
• Barnes and Noble business Yesterday 8:53 pm
  Can Barnes & Noble (BKS) Survive the Kindle, iPad and eReader Push? Kindle's electronic book...
• Apple iPad Apps Yesterday 7:16 am
  No clear winner among iPad e-reader apps  By WALTER MOSSBERG THE WALL STREET JOURNAL S...
• Apple iPad Apps Yesterday 7:03 am
  iNewspaper: The Next iPad Service? Paul Suarez, PC World Sep 19, 2010 7:42 am {http://images.pcw...
• e-reader Sales Figures Monday, 9:43 pm
  ...It's different than the early days of digital music. The first iPod from an electronics standp...
• e-reader Sales Figures Monday, 9:42 pm
  E-books: A new chapter begins Kobo CEO says... everything in publishing  Lastpublishi...
• Sony Readers Monday, 8:12 pm
• Sony e-reader – hands on EVENT REVIEWS, FEATURED, GADGETS & GIZMOS — BY JACK RATCLIFFE ON SE...
• Apple iPad as e-reader Monday, 6:53 am
  iNewspaper: The Next iPad Service? Paul Suarez, PC World Sep 19, 2010 7:42 am {http://images.pcw..

Stephen Fry and Our Transmedia Reading Future

• ebook Publishing just now
  Stephen Fry and Our Transmedia Reading Future By Tim Carmody ...

• ebook Publishing Friday, 8:22 pm
  Ebooks: the future is now By Gary Kemble Posted 9 hours 58 minutes...
• Apple iPad as e-reader Friday, 7:08 am
  Newspaper industry in quandary over Apple's revenue model for its ...
• Publishing Industry “at a defining moment Friday, 7:03 am
  = 12 Game Changers in Publishing= {http://s.huffpost.com/contribut...
• Publishing Industry “at a defining moment Thursday, 7:16 am
  The New Sleekness AboutPublished: January 12, 2010 Filed Under: Le...
• Publishing Industry “at a defining moment Thursday, 6:54 am
  Rethinking the Publishing Company September 14th, 2010 · 17 Commen...
• Amazon Kindle Sep 15, 2010 8:25 pm
  September 14, 2010 7:03 AM Kindle Marketing Attack Against iPad is...
• Future of the Book Sep 15, 2010 7:36 am
  Stephen Fry autobiography is ‘publishing first’ 'The Fry Chronicle...
• Amazon Kindle App Sep 14, 2010 10:01 pm
  The problem with Kindle app ebooks By Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | Sep...
• Future of the Book Sep 14, 2010 7:05 am
  How Gail Rebuck turned Tony Blair's book into a bestseller The bos...
• Sony Readers Sep 12, 2010 9:07 am
  SonyHow The Sony Reader’s New E-Ink Touchscreen Works By Nick Bro...
• Sony Readers Sep 10, 2010 7:15 am
  Sony shows Amazon how to do touchscreen ebooks Takes the shine ...
• Sony Readers (Reverted to Sep 2, 2010 9:22 pm: New text too narrow) Sep 10, 2010 7:11 am
  =Sony shows Amazon how to do touchscreen ebooks= Takes the shine ..

Sony e-reader has Touch Screen

• Sony Readers Today 9:07 am
  =SonyHow The Sony Reader’s New E-Ink Touchscreen Works By Nick Bro...
• Sony Readers Friday, 7:15 am
  =Sony shows Amazon how to do touchscreen ebooks= Takes the shine ...
• Sony Readers (Reverted to Sep 2, 2010 9:22 pm: New text too narrow) Friday, 7:11 am
  =Sony shows Amazon how to do touchscreen ebooks= Takes the shine ...
• Sony Readers Friday, 7:09 am
  =Sony shows Amazon how to do touchscreen ebooks= Takes the shine ...
• ebook availability Friday, 7:06 am
  Fall preview: Publishing || The latest version of the Amazon Kindl...
• Future of the Book Sep 7, 2010 7:06 am
  September 6, 2010, 12:00 PM ET William Gibson On the Future of Pub...
• Future of the Book Sep 6, 2010 8:21 pm
  ... Tony Blair... can can these blockbusters... world of books?Asb...
• Future of the Book Sep 6, 2010 8:18 pm
  Harry Potter, Tony Blair... can these blockbusters save the world ...
• Bookstore eBook Dilemma Sep 3, 2010 8:06 pm
  ...From my perspective, ebooks and ereaders are an alternative - a...
• Bookstore eBook Dilemma Sep 3, 2010 8:03 pm
  Are bookstores dead? By Dennis Posadas on September 3, 2010 9:21 ...
• Bookstore eBook Dilemma Sep 3, 2010 7:59 pm
  Are bookstores dead? By Dennis Posadas on September 3, 2010 9:21 ...
• Sony Readers Sep 2, 2010 9:22 pm
  Sony's Pocket Edition e-reader is coming to Australia. Sony brings...
• Future of the Book Sep 2, 2010 9:54 am
  To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish Jun. 9 2010 - 9:52 am | Bo...
• ebook Prices Sep 1, 2010 9:58 pm
  Amazon confirms that Australians will still pay more for eBooks by...
• Kobo books Sep 1, 2010 9:04 pm
  E-Reader Price Wars: Kobo Tries to Keep Up Borders drops the price...

Future of the Book and Self Publishing

• Amazon.com v. Book publishers just now
  Wylie, Random House settle e-books dispute, but Godin goes his own...
• Future of the Book 4 minutes ago
  = To Self-Publish or Not to Self-Publish= {http://s.huffpost.com/...
• Kobo books Yesterday 2:29 pm
  eBooks by Kobo for iPhone and iPad August 26, 2010, 6:24 PM EDT By...
• Future of the Book Yesterday 7:34 am
  iPadsiWork update enables iBooks self-publishing by Jim Dalrymple ...
• ebooks and p-books will co-exist Friday, 10:12 pm
  The digital era has not made publishers defunct The services we pr...
• ebooks and p-books will co-exist Friday, 10:05 pm
  E-books enticing but they can’t go everywhere By GAIL LETHBRIDGE ...
• Amazon Kindle Friday, 7:35 am
  WANTED: Amazon Kindle, 3rd Generation BY Dan NosowitzTue Aug 24, ...
• Apple iPad as e-reader Friday, 7:32 am
  iPad quickly adopted as e-reader on Wattpad Smartphones widely use...
• Future of the Book Friday, 7:25 am
  ...An even better option is to walk to your local library, which ca...

E-Readers about to explode the market

• e-readers compared just now
  The Next Wave of E-Readers: Flood of New Models Coming Soon Ian Pa...
• Do we really want to curl up with an e-book? 6 minutes ago
  E-books make readers less isolated, more social Social mores surro...
• Apple iPad as e-reader Yesterday 9:40 am
  iAds in iBooks may be closer than you think by Joe Aimonetti Augus...
• Amazon.com v. Book publishers Yesterday 9:38 am
  Amazon Loses Digital Rights By: Zacks Equity Research August 25,...
• Samsung e-reader Wednesday, 7:38 am
  Samsung’s e-reader hits the shelves WHSmith first with orders By ...
• Barnes and Noble business Wednesday, 7:31 am
  Barnes & Noble Beaten After Loss MarketNewsVideo.com , 08.24....
• Future of the Book Tuesday, 10:07 pm
  iPads and Kindles are better for the environment than books By Bri...
• Future of the Book Tuesday, 9:59 pm
  US author to bypass “fundamentally broken” publishers 24.08.10 | ...
• e-reader Sales Figures Tuesday, 7:34 am
  June e-Book Sales Up 119% By PW Staff Aug 20, 2010 Electronic boo...
• Future of the Book Tuesday, 7:32 am
  Seth Godin Quits Traditional Publishing; Readers Respond By Jason ...
• e-readers compared Tuesday, 7:29 am
  How to choose: Best eReader August 23, 2010 12:57 pm {http://188....
• Barnes and Noble business Aug 21, 2010 3:09 pm
  Will Barnes & Noble Lose the E-Book War? by Alexander Moschin...
• Future of the Book Aug 19, 2010 9:36 pm
  E-Publishing Consultant Mike Shatzkin Doesn't Understand Books Mik...
• Barnes and Noble business Aug 18, 2010 8:27 pm
  ForAs e-books gain, Barnes & Noble tries to stay ahead By Juli...
• Future of Magazines Aug 18, 2010 7:59 pm
  Google and the Search for the Future The Web icon's CEO on the mo...

Google Editions due in June

• Google's e-books entry unlikely to lower pricesGoogle will open an online bookstore, Editions, in July.

  SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Google Inc.'s entry into the electronic book market is not completely unexpected, as it has been scanning and sparring over digital rights over out-of-print books with publishers and authors for years.
  But with Google now confirming it plans to join the e-book frenzy with Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and others, via a new service this summer called Google Editions, one wonders what advantages will it really have versus its entrenched rivals. See Google news here.
  
• Google Books just now
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  As Steve Jobs goes out of his way to badmouth Adobe Flash and keep it off both the iPhone and the iPad, Apple is developing its own Flash alternative. Apple building its own Flash, says rogue Tweeter Coding web apps w...
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• The proliferation of digital media and e-reading devices has notappeared to ring a death knell for old-fashioned bound paper and ink.
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• Tap, tap, tap.
  All the PCs and laptops are basically not being used. All the Macs are not being used. All have been powered off.
  Everyone in the family is waiting for their turn at the iPad.
  What iPads Did To My Family Posted at 02:50 PM in Technology Debat...
• Borders eBooks Yesterday 5:48 pmTwo significant steps were announced yesterday for the advancement of the eBook phenomenon in Australia -- the imminent launch of Borders eBooks and a move by retail chain Dymocks to make its eBooks available in the DNL and ePub formats. Dymocks e-reader too expensive.
  
  Two big steps for eBooks in Australia By Renai LeMay Friday, 07 Ma...

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Browsing the aisles of Apple's iBookstore

E-book store has potential, but there are early missteps
by Kirk McElhearn, Macworld.com

Kobo eReader, sets the bar for low cost ebook ereader

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Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader

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Easy readers: Kindle, iPads more than novel ideas

E-books lure fans by the volumes

By Matt Frassica • mfrassica@courier-journal.com • April 19, 2010

Sarah Ruml has already given up on paper books. The Kindle is all she needs.“They're better than regular books,” Ruml, 38, said of e-readers like Amazon's Kindle. “They're lighter, and if you're trying to get under your covers to read, you can just use one hand. The page doesn't have that gutter (the space between the edge of the text and the page binding). You can read faster.”
Also: the bookstore is always open, and what you buy doesn't stack up in the house.

DRM and Copyright

Can You Survive a Benevolent Dictatorship?

The press loves the iPad, but beware Apple's attempt to shackle your readers to its hardware
By Cory Doctorow -- Publishers Weekly, 4/19/2010

Family tech: In with the e-reader, out with the bookshelf

By Mark Stout For the News & Messenger

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Children today might find a vinyl record in the attic and ask, "What's this?" Their children are likely to hold up a book and ask the same question.

E-books are wildly gaining in popularity.

Australia and eBooks

• Australia and eBooks 
  
  
  Kim Carr’s eBook working group is a joke By Renai LeMay There is an enormous amount of effort going on in the Australian technology community and the book publishing industry as both sides of the game work out how to transition to the new digital reality — as Delimiter’s recent feature article on the topic made clear.
  Take Central Book Services, which has launched its ECO Reader device in Australia to stimulate demand, or the recent launch of the BeBook readers.
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  DRM is clouding Australia’s eBook market By Renai LeMay retailers who sell eBooks.
  
  So, in order to read an eBook, I am forced to choose an eBook platform, and then look for a retailer who will support the platform.
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Apple iPad Alice in Wonderland a hit with reviewers

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• Apple iPad Apps Today 2:12 pm
  'Alice' app for iPad points the way toward a new generation of pop-up books
  A video clip depicting some of app's features, posted April 12, has garnered more than 22,000 views on YouTube. Among reviews of the app, Ipadmodo calls it "clearly one of the must buy apps for the iPad platform," while Mashable says it "Shows Why E-Books Are Cool," and Gizmodo calls it "The Cleverest iPad Book Yet.... For the first time in my life, I'm blown away by an interactive book design."
  Alice for the iPad is available in a free "lite" version or in a full version for $8.99.
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Apple iPad disrupts Amazon ebook monopoly

It has finally happened. Publishers are so desperate to survive and Apple so hungry to succeed with the iPad, that Amazon has blinked, and agreed to the usual Apple 70/30 deal with publishers, so perhaps the iBook store will not be as monopolistic on prices as the iTunes store.

"Publishers aren't wasting any time getting their books onto the new iPad.
Publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kaplan Publishing, McGraw-Hill Education, and Pearson have signed deals to be among the first to port their textbooks over to Apple's new tablet. Heading to the iPad as well as the iPhone and iPod Touch will be their textbooks, study guides, and test prep manuals.

See full story:

Textbook publishers heading to iPad by Lance Whitney

And now Mr Murdoch, Australian emigre, reminding us that newspaper and magazine publishers are desperate for the iPad, has weighed into the battle -

"Rupert Murdoch has suggested the iPad and the Kindle would be ''unloved and unsold'' without creativity from companies like his News Corporation.
Tablet computers, e-readers and smartphones would be unloved ''empty vessels'' without quality creative content, he said in New York on Tuesday as News Corp opened a new front in its battle to get people to pay for journalism and entertainment."
see story: iPad unloved without us: Murdoch

"Amazon and Macmillian have not yet got the perfect deal: Macmillan  demanded a price hike for its best-sellers in electronic books to $12.99-$14.99, from $9.99, so Amazon initially stopped selling all Macmillan titles." see the story: Amazon reshelves Macmillan titles but not e-books

"Online retailer Amazon.com Inc resumed selling hardcover and paperback books from Macmillan Publishers late on Friday."

"HarperCollins joined Macmillan in trashing Amazon’s $9.99 model and now Hachette is on the bandwagon. They’re all looking to Apple and the iPad to save their profit margins in the electronic reader market and Amazon’s surrendering means that you Kindle owners can probably expect your e-book prices to go up to match Apple."

Story: Amazon Facing Heat From Third Publisher Over Book Price Issue

"In a foolish public relations move, Amazon.com  said that it would "capitulate," and accused Macmillan of having a "monopoly" over its titles. (I guess it takes one to know one). It had expressed disagreement by temporarily ceasing sales of all Macmillan books. At deadline Wednesday afternoon, some titles published by Macmillan's imprints, such as the best-selling novel "Sarah's Key" and "Priceless" -- ironically about the myth of fair value and the hidden psychology of price -- were still not available from Amazon directly, only its resellers." see full story:  

Commentary: iPad disappoints but Steve Jobs looks shrewd Therese Poletti's Tech Tales -Amazon looking foolish in e-book flap  

The other major theme of the week is that of content and technologies used by the Apple iPad.

The lack of Flash (by Adobe) is a major criticism of the iPad, but Steve Jobs himself has all but declared war on Adobe Flash:

"The iPhone, and now the iPad, both lack support for Adobe Flash, an inexplicable omission for many users who have become used to Flash as one of the most common plugins on their desktop and laptop computers.
Jobs and Adobe have traded barbs over the issue. Adobe has called the iPad restricted and Jobs has fired back with claims that Adobe is lazy and its software causes the Mac to crash."
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Flashpoint as Jobs takes aim at Adobe  by ASHER MOSES February 1, 2010 - 3:12PM

Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch has countered: "it is unlikely that HTML5 will supplant the need for Flash in the foreseeable future. "If HTML could reliably do everything Flash" can, it would "certainly save us a lot of effort," Lynch says. But because Flash is still enabling more than 75 percent of Web video, according to Lynch, Flash will be around "even as HTML advances."

See full story:

CTO Counters Steve Jobs' Claim that Adobe Is 'Lazy' by Sarah Jacobsson, PC World Feb 4, 2010 12:29 pm

 

Apple iPad arrives

Well, it's certainly not called the iTablet or iSlate now, contrary to the rumours. And the iPad will be no use to Australians wanting to read Australian titles, because the iBook store will only be accessible to Americans. Why? Because iBook, like Amazon, must respect the copyright areas allowed in the author/publisher contracts.
If the author's contract says something like, "only in USA and dependencies", then Amazon and iBook must preclude our purchases.

This is NOT the case for books. Australians can buy any BOOK they want from Amazon, so long it is just one copy. Significantly, Australians have the right to buy any book from almost any part of the world.

But try to buy software from Amazon, and the copyright enforcement is 'bleedingly obvious' - cannot ship software or electronics to Australia. So this is an example Digital Rights Management enforced by the retailer because of Amazon's supply contract with each publisher or distributor.

What was new this week?

iPad's Big Target: E-Readers

Matt Hamblen, Computerworld Jan 31, 2010 4:31 am

Apple ipad

"The new Apple iPad's color multitouch display will clobber -- but not kill -- the blossoming e-reader market, which includes Amazon.com's Kindle, the Sony Reader and other devices that use gray-scale displays and slower interfaces, some analysts said.
"Apple 's full-color, full motion [iPad] device makes not only netbooks, but any product with an E Ink display look tired and dated," wrote Yankee Group analyst Carl Howe in a blog after spending a few minutes using the tablet device.


"If you're a publisher who lives and dies by what your content looks like, you want to be talking to Apple now; any other digital distribution is going to look very last decade,"

iPad: What it means for Australia

GORDON FARRER January 29, 2010

"WHAT we know about plans for the iPad in Australia is far outweighed by what we don't know. We know that the basic wifi - wireless broadband - version of the iPad will be available worldwide in late March. The wifi+3G version will be available in the US and ''selected countries'' in April. We also know that iBooks, which gives users access to e-books and digital textbooks and one of the iPad's biggest selling points, will only be available via US models.

"We don't know how much the devices will cost in Australia; which telcos will carry the device; or whether Australia is a ''selected country''. And we don't know which Australian media outlets will provide content tailored to take advantage of a technological breakthrough some optimistic souls see as a potential saviour of the newspaper industry."

Australian Designer Creates The ‘iPad Wall’

Posted by Brenton Currie on Jan 31st, 2010

A Melbourne architectural firm, ClarkeHopkinsClarke, has created a mockup design of an ‘iPad wall’, a wall fitted out with hundreds of iPads.

iPad Wall (Credit: CHC)

The wall could be used in situations such as libraries, where users could browse books on the devices, or be used in place of televisions which are used currently to display interactive scenes or promotional information.
“With the built-in features of the iPad and customisable applications, there is literally an endless number of things we can do on the wall,” the company said in a post introducing the design.
“Interchangeable wallpaper pattern & video is just the beginning, but imaging a giant jigsaw that you can play using multitouch, an interactive aquarium scene, digital graffiti, interactive speaker wall, even a life sized digital bookcase for your iBooks!”
Because of the relatively cheap price of the iPad ($499 USD), many of the devices could be purchased for a smaller cost than say fitting out the wall with large LCD televisions, and unlike normal feature wall mosaic tiles, the iPad contains groundbreaking technology and features, which are usually only seen in $600 or above priced products.

Kobo E-Reader is First such App on iPad

• By Charlie Sorrel January 28, 2010 6:16 am Categories: Media Players

Third party e-book readers

"The iPad might have iBooks, but if Apple’s built-in iPhone apps are anything to go by, then it will likely be gorgeous but limited (the Mail app, anyone?). We think that it’ll be the third party e-book readers that turn the Moses Tablet into the Kindle Killer people so obviously want it to be.

Stephen Fry: why the Apple iPad is here to stay

The self-confessed Apple fanatic on why the launch of the company's new tablet will change everything

"Well bless my soul and whiskers. This is the first time I've joined the congregation at the Church of Apple for a new product launch. I've watched all the past ones, downloaded the Quicktime movies and marvelled as Apple's leader has stood before an ovating faithful and announced the switch to Intel, the birth of iPod, the miniMac, the iTunes Store, OS X, iPhoto, the swan's-neck iMac, the Shuffle, Apple retail stores, the iPhone, the titanium Powerbook, Garageband, the App Store and so much more. But this time I finally made it. I went to San Francisco for the launch of the iPad. Oh, happy man."

"The speed, the responsiveness, the smooth glide of it, the richness and detail of the display, the heft in your hand, the rightness of the actions and gestures that you employ, untutored and instinctively, it's not just a scaled up iPhone or a scaled-down multitouch enhanced laptop – it is a whole new kind of device. And it will change so much. Newspapers, magazines, literature, academic textbooks, brochures, fliers and pamphlets are going to be transformed (poor Kindle). Specific dedicated apps and enhancements will amaze us. You will see characters in movies use the iPad. Jack Bauer will want to return for another season of 24 just so he can download schematics and track vehicles on it. James Bond will have one. Jason Bourne will have one. Some character, in a Tron-like way, might even be trapped in one."

Amazon CEO: “Millions” of Kindles Sold

Posted by: Douglas MacMillan on January 28
"Amazon.com keeps secret the number of Kindles it sells, saying the devices generate too small a portion of overall revenues to warrant disclosure. But on Thursday, the company gave its first big hint at the e-book reader’s financial success.
In a press release detailing the e-commerce giant’s solid all-around performance in the fourth quarter of 2009, CEO Jeff Bezos says, “Millions of people now own Kindles.” So, assuming that at least two million people have bought the device, and that each paid at least $259 – the cost of the least-expensive Kindle – Amazon now has a business worth more than $500 million in sales. Not bad for a product that’s a little more than two years old."