CRAVE the gadget blog from CNETnews offers this cool little chart here comparing Apple iPads and Amazon Kindles as eBook Readers. Nice to see it all laid out there. I have to say, I’m still waiting for Apple to clear the air about the Apple iPad App iBooks. We know it will read EPUB format, …
Category: eBook Readers
The machines.
Jan 29
An Opinion on the Apple iPad
More reaction to the release of Apple’s self-described ‘game-changer’ iPad. Thanks to our friend Jorgen for this link to an opinion piece by the Telegraph’s Justin Williams entitled: “Why I don’t want an Apple iPad.” (nuff said?) It’s just the hype-hangover talking, yah?
Jan 28
iBooks on the Apple iPad
It stands to reason that we’ll all be inundated with stories and articles about the Apple iPad. As the dust settles, we’re starting to get to the specifics. Ok. We’ve all heard that it’s just a big iPhone, but it does have eBook reading capability and that’s what we were waiting to hear. PCWorld goes …
Jan 27
Apple iPad- More at Engadget.com
Here is a link to Engadget.com (again, great job covering the launch!) where they get their hands on the Apple iPad and give it their ‘first look.’ Sounds like they are both impressed and disappointed. They’ve got a full video walkthrough too… The eBooks with the ‘flipping’ pages looks very cool, but it’s got to …
Jan 27
Apple Tablet (Pad or Slate?) Launches in minutes…
Here’s a link to live updates from CNNMoney. Apple is launching a ‘secret’ device that everyone believes is the rumored ‘tablet.’ This is touted as an eBook Revolution game changer. Here’s another link to the launch at Engadget. Check it out!
Jan 24
As we approach Apple Nirvana
Thanks again to Jorgen who dropped off this link to an excellent article at the Telegraph shaped around the notion that the rumored release of Apple’s Tablet on January 27 may be a way to end the onslaught of new hand-held devices and replace “our heaps of disorderly electronic debris with a single, all-purpose device, …
Jan 20
Newsstand in your Hand
Many thanks to Jorgen for a link this story at the TimesOnline about the future of digital publishing as it relates to the next generation of eReaders revealed by tech companies at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas. Even though the first generation of early adopters are patiently waiting for their grayscale Kindles, Nooks, COOL-ERs …
Jan 19
Apple’s Being Coy, but this must be the Tablet!
CNN has a story here about Apple inviting the press to see ‘our latest creation’ at an event planned for January 27 in San Francisco, California. After a year of online rumors and claims about Apple’s legendary beast, the cocky devils neglected to use the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas as their launch site, …
Jan 17
eBook buyer statistics…
Thanks Jorgen for a link to an article at Resourceshelf.com that features highlights from a survey conducted by the Book Industry Study Group, Inc. (BISG) addressing how “print book buyers access, purchase and use e-books and e-readers.” Two things stood out. Apparently 30% of print book buyers will wait up to three months to purchase …
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