Someone please tell me how the behavior of this ‘legitimate’ corporate entity is more benevolent, more creator and consumer sensitive than the torrent services offered at Pirate Bay? Interesting story follows exposing Amazon’s ulterior motives for Digital Rights Management and their Whispernet. I think we’ve all dated a control-freak like this. The story follows an individual …
Category: eBook Software
Apr 16
Reid Minion Release for iPhone
Reid Minion 1.0, the iPhone application offering enhanced document and book reading for the iPhone and iPod is now available from Minion Software. prMac has the full story and specifications here. Reid Minion 1.0 includes a wide array of interesting adaptations including special font settings for speed readers and the visually impaired. (Minion. I like the name, …
Apr 10
Happy Holidays
We’re pretty sure the eBook Battles will continue through the Easter weekend, but eBook Rumors wishes you a peaceful holiday just the same. Got to take one day off, yah? p.s. Oh what the hell: there’s a rumor at Slashgear that Foxconn (The ODM for Kindle 2) is charging into the eBook Revolution with an …
Apr 04
Rupert Murdoch’s Mystery Machine
I’ll say this much. For a guy who once owned a steam-driven car, Rupert Murdoch is an elder statesman of publishing who ain’t afraid of no newfangled gadgets. Go Rupert! He likes the look of Kindle but thinks he can do better, so he’s investing in a company that will build him a device with …
Mar 23
A Monday Grab Bag…
For the first time in a couple weeks, we’re not seeing the Monday morning release of some new device or big business merger of old world Publisher and eBook upstart… So, the Digital Library of Islamic Manuscripts Online is offering 200 Islamic manuscripts for scholars to consult and study. Looks like straight scans, and I’m …
Feb 21
Kindle 2 versus iPhone
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 20
MANYBOOKS.NET – 23,058 FREE eBOOKS!
Matthew McClintock creator of Manybooks.net has put together an interesting service for readers and writers that you’ve just got to see. The layout is eye-catching and easy to navigate so check it out. Offering 23,058 Free eBOOKSÂ from sources like Gutenberg and Author-direct material is just part of it. McClintock offers tools and conversion software …
Feb 19
NEW WORLD – OLD CONTROL
When you’re trying to convince consumers to buy new products, why throw a hassle into using those new products? It’s been proven that DRM is a drag on new markets when it impeded the growth of the digital music and movie industries, generating more piracy and hostility than sales. Why do they think it will …
Feb 18
Adobe’s Going Mobile
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 …
Jan 30
And the Fight is On!
So the fancy footwork before they get up in each other’s grills… In May 2008 Mobipocket president and CEO Martin Gorner said Mobipocket would release updated readers for the various platforms, as well as release a new reader for the Apple iPhone by the end of the year. iPhone and iPod Touch owners cannot read …
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