Thursday, August 26, 2010

E-Readers about to explode the market

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Saturday, May 8, 2010

Google Editions due in June

  • Google's e-books entry unlikely to lower pricesGoogle will open an online bookstore, Editions, in July.Google 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
    Oz publishers like Google e-bookstore GORDON FARRER May 6, 2010 {h...
  • Apple iPad Technologies Today 12:03 pm
    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...
  • Do we really want to curl up with an e-book? Today 11:59 am
  • The proliferation of digital media and e-reading devices has notappeared to ring a death knell for old-fashioned bound paper and ink.
    Books taking on all comers Hollie Shaw, Financial Post Published:...
  • Apple iPad early progress Yesterday 6:04 pm
  • 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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Monday, May 3, 2010

Apple iPad 3G and e-reader rivals Kobo and Nook updated


Apple iPad 3G: Review Roundup

Reviewers are quick to offer tips and workarounds for early buyers of the newest iPad.

The reviews are in: here are our favorite bloggers' early reactions to Apple'smouthfullishly-named iPad with Wi-Fi+3G. In IT Blogwatch, your humble blogwatcher summarizes their verdicts for your reading pleasure. Not to mention an impossible helicopter...
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    The iPad 3G: Is the extra $130 worth it? The new version of Apple'...
  • ebook Publishing Today 2:16 pm
    How to Pair Smashwords and Scribd for Ideal E-Book Strategy {http:...
  • Kobo books Today 2:14 pm
    Kobo ebook reader now in stores Posted by digitalhome on May 3, 20...
  • Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader Today 2:13 pm
    B&N delivers meaty Nook update, teases iPad app by David Carno...
  • ebook Sales Today 2:10 pm
    Rise of the e-book presents major challenges for future of publish...
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**Featured:** Apple iPad Apps:

Browsing the aisles of Apple's iBookstore

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

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Monday, April 19, 2010

Kobo eReader, sets the bar for low cost ebook ereader

Kobo books  Hands on with the Kobo eReader, setting the bar for low cost ebook..

Barnes and Noble Nook e-reader

  • Barnes & Noble Updates E-Reader to Fix Frozen Screen (Update1)...

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

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

By Mark Stout For the News & Messenger

Published: April 17, 2010 » 0 Comments | Post a Comment

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.
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Friday, April 16, 2010

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.
  • Australia and eBooks 

    DRM is clouding Australia’s eBook market By Renai LeMay retailers who sell eBooks.
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    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.
  • Australia and eBooks 

    Keeping the magic alive: Australia and eBooks Tags: amazon, author...
  • Apple iPad Apps 

    5 amazing iPad e-books for kids by Rick Broida
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Apple iPad Alice in Wonderland a hit with reviewers

Digitalbook - recent changes
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Saturday, February 6, 2010

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.
external image hero_20100127_270x326.png 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.
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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."

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


 

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