Jorgen dropped off a link to a Publishers Weekly post with highlights from a second discussion panel: From Book to E- Book: Aesthetics, Design and the Digital in their Think Future series. Panel guests included Matteo Bologna, founder and creative director of Mucca Design, a branding agency responsible for delivering “many, many book jackets” to clients like Penguin …
Category: eBook Readers
The machines.
Mar 03
Looks like a March 3rd eBook Revolution Grab Bag
As the eBook Revolution continues its charge into 2010, we find ourselves with a varied but unexciting news day. So I’ve got a grab bag of links. First of all, thanks to Jorgen for a link to this Reuters story that has Rupert Murdoch seriously insulting the Mexican people and predicting the demise of the Kindle …
Feb 26
A Word from the Penguin Boss on the eBook Revolution…
Thanks Jorgen for a link to a post at IT.TMCNET.COM where Penguin Publishing boss John Makinson waxes poetic about the coming digital age. An interesting read, if it does continue to have the paternalistic tone that we so often hear from fat cats of the ‘bricks and mortar’ days. (You know the fat cats who are …
Feb 25
Infibeam Pi Calculates that there is E Ink life after iPad
And I thought we’d have to worry about them cloning people. Infibeam Pi is a new eBook Reader with a familiar look for the burgeoning eBook Marketplace. (Come on, it’s a Kindle right down to the smile…) Announced in January, as India’s first eBook Reader it has a familiar list of functions as well.  (Not …
Feb 24
Popular Wattpad Titles Now Available on Sony’s Reader™ Store
Toronto, Canada, February 22, 2010 –(PR.com)– Wattpad, the world’s most popular ebook community, today announces an ebook distribution agreement with Sony Electronics. A selection of top unique Wattpad titles will be available on Sony’s Reader Store starting today. “We are very excited to bring popular Wattpad titles to new audiences,†said Allen Lau, CEO and …
Feb 21
So much for ‘open’ format…
Our friend Jorgen dropped this link off to a story at Computerworld describing the ongoing attempt by eBook retailers to control how and where we read the eBooks they sell us. The article exposes industry leaders tinkering with the once universal and open EPUB format so that it requires a password to access, in some …
Feb 19
The Struggle for Market Dominance Begins…
Thanks Jorgen for dropping off this link to a Business Week story that predicts the shape of things to come for Amazon.com. According to the article analysts from Credit Suisse Group AG see Amazon’s market share of eBook sales slide from 90 percent in 2009 to 72 percent in the coming year. While you read …
Feb 18
eBook Readers (and Buyers) have a say…
Readers at Geeksugar.com were asked if eBooks should cost the same as traditional books. 94% of those who responded agreed that eBooks should cost less. (They’re not just being contrary either, they’ve thought it through.) Take the link to read a few of the responses. So publishers try to gouge loyal readers who obviously love books and are eager …
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 16
The White House Does eBooks
This from our friend Jorgen. A story at arstechnica.com about the White House releasing the 400 page (yawn) Annual Economic Report of the President in PDF, Amazon Kindle and ePub formats for eBook Readers. That development adds an environmental spin, and certainly puts a bit of tech-gloss on a President who just kicked the hell out …
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