Feb 27
You can read it and see it all over the place. But that doesn’t make it true.  This morning CNN had a story about the loss of newspaper jobs and the approaching demise of the newspaper industry. Watch it below. The powers that be blame the Internet for a decline in profitability due to the loss …
Feb 26
Look, you know I have to do this. There’s such a ballyhoo, it wouldn’t be fair to skip over something as important as Gizmodo.com‘s Kindle 2 Review Matrix. You can find it here. Enjoy! Yah? I promise, soon we’ll all be talking about the next eBook reader out of the blocks… Who would that be, …
Feb 25
Here’s a nice warm and fuzzy, environmentally friendly meshing of worlds, perfect for anybody who’s nervous about leaving the Paperback Age behind. It’s another fantastic option, yah? Using print-on-demand technology, the Espresso Book Machine can print a paperback in 3 – 5 minutes. That’s so cool! I can see this working very well. It will take a …
Feb 24
Okay, I’m almost finished with it. (Yah, right!) I might have sounded a bit catty earlier, about Stephen King‘s contribution to the launch of the new Kindle. I don’t want my reservations about his rationale to undercut what I believe to be a sincere effort on his part to embrace the new technology. Mr. King has …
Feb 23
While waiting in line at a coffee shop, I watched an 80-year-old man at a table reading something on his iPhone. The old devil had his specs on deftly flipping through pages…quite comfortably defining his place in the digital age. It really hit home how prepared people are for eBooks and eBook Readers. It also …
Feb 22
Kindle 2 talks and apparently it exhibits this controversial text-to-speech function in a voice similar to Tom Cruise’s. A rumor over at Engadget.com suggests it’s based on or was voiced by Cruise. You can find an analysis of Kindle 2’s voice here at KindleBoards. Give it a listen. What do you think? Is Amazon.com hoping the Top Gun will make Kindle …
Feb 21
WOW! This is happening way faster than I imagined. All of it… Amazon’s already being challenged. I’d say “that will teach them” but it won’t. Even eBook prices are starting to drop! This is the most detailed Kindle 2 review I’ve read so far. Read it here. For good measure, David Berlind of Informationweek.com, throws …
Feb 20
Matthew McClintock creator of Manybooks.net has put together an interesting service for readers and writers that you’ve just got to see. The layout is eye-catching and easy to navigate so check it out. Offering 23,058 Free eBOOKSÂ from sources like Gutenberg and Author-direct material is just part of it. McClintock offers tools and conversion software …
Feb 19
When you’re trying to convince consumers to buy new products, why throw a hassle into using those new products? It’s been proven that DRM is a drag on new markets when it impeded the growth of the digital music and movie industries, generating more piracy and hostility than sales. Why do they think it will …
Feb 18
Adobe is promising support for reflowable PDF technology (“The reflowable PDF technology allows text to auto-adjust as per the device screen size for maintaining the layout integrity” – Techtree.com) and XML-based eBook standard with EPUB file format in its new ADOBE Reader Mobile SDK. This news came from the on-going GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009 …
