From CES 2011, Engadget.com has a couple of posts on the BlackBerry PlayBook that are worth checking out. (Especially for all you BlackBerry users.) At this link you’ll find Engadget’s PlayBook Preview with pictures and video. And here you’ll find an updated post with new pics, specs and video. We’re still waiting to see how …
Category: Publishers
Jan 06
2011 International CES, January 6-9
The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas opened with tablet PCs (think iPad) headlining one of the events. In fact, as you read or hear around the net, tablet PCs are expected to dominate this year’s show. This is good for the eBook Revolution, and does not represent the harbinger of doom for single purpose …
Dec 27
The eBook Revolution Continues to Grow
This Los Angeles Times feature on the future of reading starts to describe the shifting ground in the publishing world. Now that technology allows writers to bypass the old publishing paradigm and basically cut traditional publishers out of the loop, more and more established authors are seeing this as an opportunity to increase their profits …
Dec 22
Kobo eReader $139
PCMag reviews the highly competitive Kobo Wireless eReader. At $139, the E Ink device is sporting a sharper screen that puts it into competition with the leaders from Amazon (Kindle) and Barnes and Noble (Nook). With the mammoth Borders bookstore chain in its corner, it will be interesting to see how the Kobo performs through …
Dec 14
Smashwords Indie eBook Author Makes Sales Records
Here’s an interesting post and interview over at Stuart Aken’s blog, about the recent success of an indie author. We mentioned Smashwords before, the eBook publishing platform for independent authors and small publishers that was way ahead of its time. Well, here we’ve got Smashword’s founder Mark Coker interviewing indie (& Smashwords) author, Brian S. …
Dec 10
eBook Trend Survey at Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly offers a new survey on eBook trends here. These surveys are going to become more meaningful, the longer the eBook Revolution has been rolling. It is so explosive right now that it’s hard to bank on any particular trend in eBook title or format, let alone the ever-changing landscape of eBook reading technology.
Dec 05
Was Reading Always a Social Experience?
Thanks Jorgen for this link to a Booksquare feature that questions whether digital publishing is really changing the way we read. A thought-provoking piece for a Sunday afternoon.
Dec 02
Google Editions set to Rock the eBook Revolution!
And Google Editions is bound to cause some major waves in the eBook Revolution when it arrives later this month as it’s described in TechCrunch’s post. The actual ‘shape’ of this new net-wide eBook Store is still nebulous but we’re told it will decentralize eBook sales and make any eBook-related site an eBook store. We’re …
Nov 22
Pandigital’s Novel eReader Launches!
GoodeReader updates us on the release of the Pandigital Novel eReader, now available for $213 at QVC. This after a shaky start that involved a recall of units as problems with firmware cast the future of the 9″ full-color Android tablet in doubt.
Nov 21
iPad Newspaper on the Way!
Our friend Jorgen dropped by with a link to an interesting story at the Guardian.co.uk that announces the upcoming release of the Daily, a digital newspaper designed specifically for iPad and similar devices. A brainchild of Steve Jobs and Rupert Murdoch, the Daily breaks new ground in several ways, most significantly in its adoption of …
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