Apr 02
There’s a rumor that just won’t go away about Xerox making a leap into the eBook Marketplace, doing what they do best: printing and copying. Now this story gives the rumor a bit more weight. Read it here. You know I’ve been talking about Print-on-demand Kiosks. Places where consumers can take a downloaded eBook to print. There …
Apr 01
Simba Information a publishing and media market research firm (take a breath) has released some figures that say 8% of the adult U.S. population has purchased an eBook in the past 12 months and 15% read one. (The 7% discrepancy must have visited Project Gutenberg or another of the growing number of Free eBook Outlets.) …
Mar 31
In The Trailing Edge of the Envelope department, we’ve got a story at CNNMoney entitled “Amazon: thinking beyond the Kindle” in which the reporter really doesn’t say anything new, or refer to anything beyond what many of us have been thinking about for years. Still worth a look since there are interesting links, yah. Click …
Mar 30
A pledge by Vellum Publishing Inc. to keep their eBook prices affordable highlights a shameful business over at Amazon as it puts the screws to the Kindle 2 first adopters. Prices that used to cap out at $9.99 for new releases have magically crept up to $16.00. Read the full story here. I can’t believe …
Mar 29
Fictionwise.com exec, Steven Pendergrast declared in a Computerworld article that there will be a huge surge in eBook sales in 2010. Read the wise words here. Now besides questioning the value of Computerworld interviewing someone who has everything to gain by making such an obvious statement, is it really noteworthy? Anybody who has not been …
Mar 28
It’s so fascinating to watch a brand new market evolve. Here’s another site offering free eBooks for download to readers while creating another forum for authors to display their talents. Check out GetFreeEbooks.com. They’ve got a wide selection that cross may genres, available in Mobipocket/Kindle prc, pdf or other. Worth a look, yah? Oh… and …
Mar 27
This will make Amazon’s day. Kindle is being accused by Discovery Communications of violating its development of a digital rights management scheme (their method of adding locks to digital books) and they feel they’re “entitled to fair compensation.” Read the story here. Apple is being sued by an overseas communications company for a patent violation …
Mar 26
This article makes a good point about the media focus on the big names: Kindle, iPhone, Sony Reader and now Blackberry. The ‘front runners’ better have learned from Amazon’s blunder and keep their eyes open for upstarts like Samsung’s Papyrus eBook Reader. It’s supposed to retail for under $300 (hopefully lower) and feature all the basics …
Mar 25
I don’t think I have to say more than Fictionwise released an eBook Reader for Blackberry. You can read the story at Mediabistro.com here. With the 50 millionth Blackberry sold in February, that’s one hell of a lot of potential eBook Readers… (and eyeglasses, says one IT wiseguy…) Get the Blackberry Reader here. It’s an early …
Mar 24
CNNMoney.com has an excellent list called 10 Things We Love and Hate about Kindle 2. You can read it here. Now that the dust has settled, rumor has it that Amazon is going all out to have an upgraded Kindle 3 on the market for the fall. Between iPod’s sudden inclusion in the eBook Reader …
