It’s only fair to keep talking about Barnes and Noble‘s new eBook Reader, the Nook. We burned up a lot of net time on the Kindle, after all. This link from Jorgen (thanks) that takes us to an excellent display set at engaget.com. Lots of pictures, even video. Well worth a look. All this excitement, and …
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Oct 21
Introducing Barnes and Noble’s “Nook”
The Barnes and Noble eBook Reader the “Nook” was launched yesterday at a 4 p.m news conference in Manhattan. Read the play by play on The New York Times Technology page here. At $259 it’s priced to compete with Kindle, also priced at $259. (That’s a missed opportunity… $239 would have sold a million of them and made …
Oct 20
Global Kindle Finally Out of the Gates!
Amazon is shaking off those dreams of market monopoly, smelling the coffee and realizing there are some real world-class competitors coming into the game with the same grand ambitions. Yesterday Amazon started shipping a souped-up Kindle for U.S. and International adopters. Read here at Channel Web for a story about the global Kindle’s migration to one hundred countries with …
Oct 18
European Union Gets into the Act
Watch out Google Books, looks like the EU is going to push back with the launch of the EU Bookshop’s digital library. Announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the library contains 50 years of documents in 50 languages. All FREE. Check out the story here.
Oct 17
Will Your Brain Like This Article?
Here is a thought-provoking read for your weekend. The New York Times offers an opinion piece on whether the brain is willing to go along with the switch to eBooks and eBook Readers. They asked five experts from different disciplines and areas of study these questions (from the article): “Is there a difference in the …
Oct 16
Google Editions in 2010
More tough news for Amazon. Google will sell eBooks for any device through an online store called Google Editions that they plan to launch next year. The development announced in a release here at Reuters is a nice change for Google’s otherwise complicated press life as they battle the many challenges to Google Books. Google Editions …
Oct 15
Barnes and Noble eBook Reader to Launch Next Week
ZDNet’s got the scoop and apparently pictures of the rumored Barnes and Noble eBook Reader designed and set to launch through a partnership with IREX and Plastic Logic. Read the story and see the pictures here. So this is going to heat things up, with Barnes and Noble’s long track record as book seller and distributor, …
Oct 14
Time Magazine cautiously adds its two cents…
Hey, since everyone on the web’s been chattering about eBooks and eBook Readers for years now, isn’t Time kind of imitating us? Anyway, there is a good story at Time about the upcoming eBook Revolution. (Notice how they waited until things got into full swing before commenting…but I digress.) Read the article, it starts out lamenting how …
Oct 11
Smashwords
Smashwords is an online distribution service for independent eBook authors and publishers. And it’s FREE! They offer a wide variety of eBooks for sale direct from the Smashwords.com bookstore, as well as distribute through various online channels. And many of the titles are very fairly priced, some starting as low as $1.99. They’ve also inked …
Oct 10
The Scourge of Piracy
Jorgen stopped by to direct us to this article at techdirt.com debunking some of the myths that surround digital content piracy and file sharing. It’s an excellent piece that suggests eBook piracy might not be the bad thing publishers want us to believe it is. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Stop …
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