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February 2011

“It’s a real page clicker.” “If a book is really good and you can’t...”

– from Know Your English section of The Hindu, India’s National Newspaper

The iPad competition is almost here from RIM, H-P...

The Motorola Xoom Despite the iPad’s ungodly dominance of a market that Apple pretty much created, the scramble for the biggest piece of that pie is still very much on. All Apple has really done done so far, really, is prove that tablet computing can actually be great – despite what anyone whose ever used a Windows Tablet Edition machine will tell you. The RIM PlayBook But before anybody...

Apple is the new AOL and new Microsoft, but are...

Here are two excellent takes on Apple’s attempt to capitalize on the iPad’s early success go beyond the device: John Battelle’s “Is The iPad A Disappointment? Depends When You Sold Your AOL Stock” and Kroc Camen’s “Will Apple Embrace the Web? No.” Joe Wilcox of betaNews gives you the short answer here. Despite the unquestioned success of the...

e-book Roadtest Sony Reader Digital Book PRS-700 Recently I have been involved in implementing from the ground up a digital publishing program for a mid level trade book publisher and in the process have used and abused just about every ebook reader made in the last two years. The very first ereader I aquired was the PRS 700 and through every Kindle version, Kobo, and even iPad I have...

More thoughts on e-book piracy →

Website EMovieBooks.com Allows Purchases Of... →

Diamond, iVerse Team Up to Sell Digital Comics Via...

By Calvin Reid, Publishers Weekly In a move that will likely be closely examined far beyond the comics marketplace, Diamond Comics Distributors is teaming with digital comics vendor iVerse to launch a digital program that will give physical comics shops the ability to offer exclusive digital delivery of a select group of comics that can be viewed on a variety of device platforms. In a...

Yahoo's New Digital Tablet Newsstand Takes on... →

In the wake of AOL purchasing the Huffington Post and News Corp. unveiling The Daily, Yahoo is looking to regain some footing in the digital news marketplace. Today, the company introduced Livestand, a personalized digital newsstand for tablets and mobile…

Pirating your own library for your iPad

From the Sydney Morning Herald YUSUKE Ohki’s 2000 books were filling his Tokyo apartment, so he scanned them into an Apple iPad. Six months later, the 28-year-old is running a 120-person start-up company doing the same thing for customers. Japan’s cramped living conditions and the arrival of the iPad in May have spawned as many as 60 companies offering to turn paper books into e-books as...

Is there hope for small bookstores in a digital... →

There are some signs of hope…

Who's the Boss, You or Your Gadget →

techspotlight: tjunkie: Professor Sutton hits the perfect note:- “The emotionally compelling nature of the device and live information it carries — and the intermittent reinforcement it carries, plus the pressure of living in a world where for many people ‘immediately’ now really means immediately — causes people to be entranced by their devices and to ignore real life as it unfolds in front...

Real Page Numbers Coming to Kindle E-Books →

pageless: Device owners will be especially happy to learn that the page numbers in tens of thousands of e-books now match the page numbers in their respective print editions, a feature that will be especially useful to academics and students who need to quickly reference and cite passages. Page numbers will be coming to Kindle’s mobile apps “in the coming months,” a spokesperson said. ...

The e-volution of the American reader →

A nice article on current e-reader experiences from a staff writer at The Great Falls Tribune in Great Falls, Montana. These aren’t NYC mid-level publishing minions on Metro North, these are real people from the heartland of the country who still use the library and have to drive 45 minutes to get to the nearest bookstore. Great Falls, Montana is the nearest town to Glacier National...

Could Digital Publishing Save Longform Journalism? →

Rather than digital versions of print delivery vehicles the way forward for journalism is just that… look forward toward new distribution models like Kindle Singles.

Calif. District Pushes Digital-Text Initiative... →

Kindle 3: So advanced, even illiterates can use it!