Oct 25
Liliputing has a story about a hack that turns Sony’s $150 PRS-T1 E Ink Reader into an android ‘tablet.’ Â The details and video at the link.
Oct 24
GoodeReader has a post and leaked video of the Dell Latitude ST tablet. The Latitude ST runs Windows and from the video appears to be positioned for entrepreneurial, professional and institutional work. It’s got all of the expected tablet bells and whistles including integrated cameras front and back. Since they haven’t released the price, it’s …
Oct 23
GoodeReader’s Michael Kozlowski digs into the notion of advertisements in eBooks. Amazon.com’s recent release of its $79 Kindle with special offers (subsidized by ads on the Kindle) suggests there might be compromises in the future that could make digital publishing affordable for everyone in the mainstream marketplace. It will be a question of balance. And …
Oct 21
Our friend Jorgen dropped by with a link to a Lapham’s Quarterly Roundtable feature by Curtis White on the future of Literature in the digital age. It’s well-written and certainly worth your time. It might be a nice read to start your weekend.
Oct 20
The HuffingtonPost has a detailed feature by Robert J. Elisberg that looks at the newest crop of competitors in the eBook Revolution. He talks Amazon Kindle(s), Barnes and Noble Nook(s) and the Pandigital Nova.
Oct 19
eBookNewser has the story on the Kobo Vox Tablet now on sale for $199. (The same price as Kindle Fire. Can anybody say tablet war? Or Price War?) The Vox has a 7-inch color touch screen with Android and is ready to play eBooks, apps, video games, music and just about everything other than movies. …
Oct 18
The New York Times has this story about Amazon.com skipping past agents and publishers and approaching authors directly with offers of lucrative publishing deals. This is something that the publishing status quo has long feared, and the rest of us know is overdue. While the old power brokers lament this development, one wonders what they …
Oct 17
The BBC reports on a recent dispute between the British Library and British booksellers over a recent move by the institution to allow links from its list of 13-million titles to Amazon where readers can order the books for purchase. The booksellers say that the British Library has a responsibility to support the independent bookseller …
Oct 16
Liliputing says tech company Epesitec is releasing a 7-inch, full color tablet priced to sell at $189. This price is clearly intended as a shot across the bow of Amazon’s new $199 Kindle Fire tablet. It remains to be seen if Epesitec’s android device can compete.
Oct 15
Many thanks to our friend Jorgen who dropped in with a link to a New York Times feature on the evolution of the eBook Revolution. Here the writer Alexandra Horowitz laments the questionable future of the old standard: the footnote.
