Get the full story about the iPad’s release at CNN.com. Pre-Ordering starts March 12, and the devices will be available in the U.S. on April 3. It will be interesting to see how big an impact this machine has on the eBook Revolution. I still think it’s a greater threat to laptops and netbooks. The …
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Mar 05
Penguin Shows off Mega-Apps for iPad
Obviously, this video speaks volumes. Check out Penguin’s “Digital Books” for iPad below. It’s the kind of eBook Reader that Mr. Spock might carry around with him. It’s like having Encarta/Atlas/Video Game/iPhone App/Facebook Reading Circle/Email all in one touch-screen device. (Can anyone say Netbook?) Great for many, and it’s easy to see there will be a big …
Feb 23
The Student Body Not Ready for eBooks?
The eBook Revolution as it applies to students and small publishers was brought to my attention by a couple of small  publishers of textbooks responding to my post “Apple iPad Will Use DRM… Ahoy eBook Pirates! Come and get ‘em!” (Okay, maybe the title’s a bit provocative…) It has been theorized that schools and students would …
Feb 17
Apple iPad Will Use DRM… Ahoy eBook Pirates! Come and get ’em!
Jorgen sent us a link to a story at PCWorld that reports iPad will adopt a DRM lock on the ePub format eBooks it will sell at its iBook store. That’s part of the stupid deal they inked with some large and greedy publishers (Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette) that wanted to raise …
Feb 14
Will eBooks Replace Paperbacks?
“So will the eReader replace the paperback?” That question and many others are answered in a Net4Now.com post directed at the eReader generation. (Already, it’s a generation…) The author Jade offers an in-depth, well-researched replay of the basics and ponders the future as we pause to collect our thoughts in the post-iPad-Release eBook Revolution. A great Sunday read …
Feb 08
A New eBook Reader on the Block with an iPad Look…
Yinlips? Not sure about that name. Certainly unforgettable. Honestly, say it: Yinlips. Now shut your eyes and repeat it. See what I mean? Yinlips. Sure it’s the company name, but would you call their device an eBook reader if you could call it a Yinlips? Read the ubergizmo.com story about the new eBook Reader from Yinlips. …
Feb 07
Amazon versus Macmillan from a different perspective.
Here’s a different take on the Amazon and Macmillan showdown. Nathan Bransford, literary agent, offers a post called The Kindle Missile Crisis. Excellent read. I think the moral to the story is the consumer will ultimately dictate prices. (After the pirates have filled their pockets on the illicit sale of overpriced digital booty!) We also …
Feb 03
Apple Gets Controlling – My iPad Way or the Highway!
In a move reminiscent of Amazon’s most despotic market machination, Apple has ordered Lexcycle to disable its hit App Stanza’s ability to share files via the USB cable. Read the story at VentureBeat. Conspiracy theorists whisper that it’s another step in Apple’s attempt to isolate its iPad and iPhone from the competition. (The USB hookup …
Feb 02
Will iPad’s Color make Kindle’s E Ink Obsolete? Not likely…
Thanks to our friend Jorgen for a link to a Huffington Post article that makes some predictions based on wild assumptions about a marketplace and technology that is barely off the drawing board. I wonder why everyone rushes to make predictions on emerging and relatively rare technology. As much as first adopters are integral to technological developments, …
Feb 01
Amazon and Macmillan Struggle over Pricing
Take this link from Jorgen to an article at the Wall Street Journal about some nasty market moves that were made by Amazon.com and Macmillan Publishing over the last few days. Macmillan balked at Amazon’s pricing and was rewarded by Amazon removing all Macmillan titles from their sales lists. Then, following a high level exchange AMAZON …
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