The machines.
Mar 05
This article about eBooks and eBook Readers from the snooty bastards at Time Magazine got my dander up. Read it here. I don’t offer it to venerate the snobbish tone, but to illustrate the kind of mocking resistance eBook and other technologies face from the establishment. (When I say “establishment” I mean, powers-that-be, status quo… …
Mar 04
Over at the theiphoneblog.com you can hear rumbling that is being felt deep inside the Amazon, and might be the reason the tribe there is getting ready to launch a new touch-screen Kindle 3 in the fall. The growing phenomena of iPhone & iTouch eBook reading has the people at Apple watching with great interest, …
Mar 03
Ok… I’m just going to put up a couple links to new eBook Readers. Why two at a time? They’re coming that quickly. It’s like everyone in the tech industry has been waiting for the release of Kindle 2, because it’s been one after the other ever since. The latest development in the evolution of …
Mar 01
Here’s another interesting piece of machinery that can be applied to the eBook Revolution. Plustek has the BookReader, a device that will scan in printed text (your books) and convert it into a lifelike voice (voice options there…). Â At $699 you’ve got to be serious about converting books into MP3 audio files, but the application …
Feb 26
Look, you know I have to do this. There’s such a ballyhoo, it wouldn’t be fair to skip over something as important as Gizmodo.com‘s Kindle 2 Review Matrix. You can find it here. Enjoy! Yah? I promise, soon we’ll all be talking about the next eBook reader out of the blocks… Who would that be, …
Feb 22
Kindle 2 talks and apparently it exhibits this controversial text-to-speech function in a voice similar to Tom Cruise’s. A rumor over at Engadget.com suggests it’s based on or was voiced by Cruise. You can find an analysis of Kindle 2’s voice here at KindleBoards. Give it a listen. What do you think? Is Amazon.com hoping the Top Gun will make Kindle …
Feb 21
WOW! This is happening way faster than I imagined. All of it… Amazon’s already being challenged. I’d say “that will teach them” but it won’t. Even eBook prices are starting to drop! This is the most detailed Kindle 2 review I’ve read so far. Read it here. For good measure, David Berlind of Informationweek.com, throws …
Feb 18
Adobe is promising support for reflowable PDF technology (“The reflowable PDF technology allows text to auto-adjust as per the device screen size for maintaining the layout integrity” – Techtree.com) and XML-based eBook standard with EPUB file format in its new ADOBE Reader Mobile SDK. This news came from the on-going GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009 …
Feb 11
Uclick.com has an app that turns your iPhone into a perfect platform for frame by frame comic book viewing. And offering the comics at .99 per download will assure that this idea is going to make a SPLASH! With all the digitizing going on, this is one of those moments where anyone can see the …
Feb 09
All the eBook news today will be about the rumored launch of Amazon’s Kindle 2. The word at Engadget.com here is that Stephen King is sending a horror story with a Kindle-twist along for the ride. The world will be watching!
