Sep 12
Jorgen came to the rescue as eBook Rumors struggled with tech issues by pointing us to this story at the Ethiopian Review Science and Technology News Forum. Apparently, Sony does not think that the United Kingdom is ready for the much anticipated 3G ‘Daily Edition’ eBook Reader that is coming onto the market in the …
Sep 11
Mary-Jo Foley at Zdnet.com offers a humorous but thought-provoking article about the fabled all-in-one device that can read eBooks, play movies and cruise the Internet for recipes, all while you’re using it to trim your nose hairs. The truth is, designers have to be careful they don’t assume that consumers are as wild about technology …
Sep 10
Jorgen returns with a link to an article by Jessica E. Vascellaro at the Wall Street Journal. In it, we see that Google, long considered the nemesis of publishing, is offering its services to help newspaper publishers get paid for their content. The newspaper industry has been staring oblivion in the face since the beginning of the Internet, …
Sep 09
We talked before about a rumored eBook Reader in Asus’ Eee-line of products. Now we’ve got an article from Mark Hachman at PCMag.com that starts to confirm the rumor, and adds an exciting new element to the story. Hachman writes that The Times of London reported that this thing is going to have a hinged spine connecting two reading …
Sep 08
ITProPortal reports Google Books signing a deal to provide eBooks to Interead’s COOL-ER  eBook Reader. This move makes Interead the first eBook store outside of the United States to offer a million-plus free eBook titles. Beleaguered web searcher and soon WORLD LIBRARIAN, Google Books is not letting the ongoing debates surrounding the legality of scanning the world’s …
Sep 07
Scribd.com is growing in size, function–AND POPULARITY. They boast: “Tens of millions of readers. Millions of documents. 35 billion words.” Sign in to purchase eBooks from some of the world’s leading authors and independents for direct download to your eBook Reader or other handheld device. They offer an excellent pdf-based file format for online reading at your desk or …
Sep 06
CNN has an excellent report on some of the changes that are coming to that tried and true institution, the Public Library. Read the article here. With the relentless forces of the digital age chipping away at every corner, one has to wonder what the library of the future will look like. The widespread adoption of …
Sep 05
We talked about it before here, and now PCWorld is updating the story. Back in July, Amazon brazenly entered Kindle owners’ collections and summarily deleted titles by George Orwell that they had mistakenly sold them…this without asking permission or offering explanation. Read some of the fallout here. Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos ended up dishing out …
Sep 04
Thanks again to our friend Jorgen who returned to direct us to a couple of stories about the ongoing debate over Google Books’ attempt to rule the eBook World… First the Wall Street Journal offers this ‘hard to believe’ author and consumer defense mounted by Amazon. (Honestly, Amazon, don’t you want to rule the eBook World …
Sep 03
Here’s a story at Bookseller.com describing how Transworld, (…there’s a warm and cuddly name for you…) the publisher of Dan Brown’s new book The Lost Symbol,  will release hardback and eBook editions simultaneously on September 15th both priced at $29.95. That while Amazon offers a $9.99 Kindle edition. Come on! $29.95 for an eBook, when most …
