A story here at InformationWeek outlines Amazon’s Monday launch of a Kindle eBook Store tricked out for Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch users. They declare a ‘mulitplatform strategy’ in the article, but I’m unconvinced. Having watched Amazon’s awkward attempts to monopolize the market with delays releasing a Mobipocket Reader and Kindle Reader for iPhone, the creation …
Category: Rumors
May 11
Slow news day at eBook Rumors…
Honestly, other than a few stories about people debating copyright (yawn) and digital rights management (when will they learn?) it seems to be a slow news day for the eBook Revolution. After a week of exciting KINDLE DX mania…what can we expect? Announcements are definitely in the pipe. And rumors suggest something is coming from …
May 06
Super-sized Kindle On the Way
According to a story at cnet.com here Amazon’s new large format Kindle, the “KINDLE DX,” will be introduced Wednesday morning at Pace University in Manhattan. No word on price but some of the specs are listed in the cnet.com piece. 9.7″ inch screen compared to Kindle 2’s 6″, that type of thing. We’ll be watching this …
May 05
More Heat in the Kitchen!
There’s a rumor that Amazon is getting ready to release a large format Kindle (roughly letter-sized), maybe this week, designed to handle newspaper and magazine-sized displays. Read the full story here at the New York Times. Kindle 2 already offers some specially formatted news feeds, but lacks the display ad capability that is integral to …
May 04
SAY NO to DRM!
Read a press release from Kitabe announcing the expansion of DRM Free MP3 Audio Book Downloads here. So, if a leading audiobook retailer understands its product should be DRM-free, why are the eBook heavyweights Amazon, Mobi, Fictionwise, etc. still pedalling that contentious form of content control? DRM HURTS CONTENT CREATORS and CONSUMERS by PROMOTING PIRACY! When …
May 03
$99 eBook Reader? Kind of…
An article at wired.com talks about BooksOnBoard, the largest independent eBookstore, announcing a $99 eBook Reader. It’s a little misleading. Read the story here, and you’ll see there are strings attached. You can buy the reader for $99 after you shell out $500 for a Gift Certificate. They’re offering the older Sony PRS-505 model Reader …
May 01
Writers: Start Your Engines
These two stories signify important steps in the eBook Revolution. The technology is new, and the prices are still too high, but this is the beginning of the start. $200 eBook Reader to make its Debut BOOKS ON DEMAND We’ve got a related story about Print on Demand (POD) Printing Machines and Kiosks here. If I …
Apr 30
Rumbling from the Apple Orchard has the Amazon trembling.
Click here to read this story at Powerpage.org about Apple’s rumored iPhone Lite release this summer. We’ve all heard the whispers about Apple gearing up to enter the eBook market. There has been talk of an Apple Tablet or “Mediapad” as described in the article, and now this, a thinner, stripped down iPhone with a …
Apr 29
Fall out from the Amazon Stanza purchase.
The future of Mobipocket Reader is now in question as Amazon nabs Stanza–even though Amazon owns Mobipocket. (It get’s confusing…) This article is just the first of the sob songs, yah? Read it here at AllAboutSymbian.com. Watch now, as the market adjusts, as monopoly slips away from Amazon again. Watch Mobipocket Reader designers disappear and then …
Apr 28
Amazon Buys Stanza’s Creator
In the “I’m My Own Worst Enemy” department, Amazon has purchased Lexcycle, creator of Stanza eBook Reader for iPhone and iPod Touch. Read the New York Times story here. Why not, they almost forced Stanza into existence? Have you have been following this? Amazon’s subsidiary, Mobipocket, delayed the release of Mobipocket Reader software for iPhone …
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