Thanks Jorgen for a link to a post at IT.TMCNET.COM where Penguin Publishing boss John Makinson waxes poetic about the coming digital age. An interesting read, if it does continue to have the paternalistic tone that we so often hear from fat cats of the ‘bricks and mortar’ days. (You know the fat cats who are …
Category: eBook Readers
The machines.
Feb 25
Infibeam Pi Calculates that there is E Ink life after iPad
And I thought we’d have to worry about them cloning people. Infibeam Pi is a new eBook Reader with a familiar look for the burgeoning eBook Marketplace. (Come on, it’s a Kindle right down to the smile…) Announced in January, as India’s first eBook Reader it has a familiar list of functions as well.  (Not …
Feb 24
Popular Wattpad Titles Now Available on Sony’s Reader™ Store
Toronto, Canada, February 22, 2010 –(PR.com)– Wattpad, the world’s most popular ebook community, today announces an ebook distribution agreement with Sony Electronics. A selection of top unique Wattpad titles will be available on Sony’s Reader Store starting today. “We are very excited to bring popular Wattpad titles to new audiences,†said Allen Lau, CEO and …
Feb 21
So much for ‘open’ format…
Our friend Jorgen dropped this link off to a story at Computerworld describing the ongoing attempt by eBook retailers to control how and where we read the eBooks they sell us. The article exposes industry leaders tinkering with the once universal and open EPUB format so that it requires a password to access, in some …
Feb 19
The Struggle for Market Dominance Begins…
Thanks Jorgen for dropping off this link to a Business Week story that predicts the shape of things to come for Amazon.com. According to the article analysts from Credit Suisse Group AG see Amazon’s market share of eBook sales slide from 90 percent in 2009 to 72 percent in the coming year. While you read …
Feb 18
eBook Readers (and Buyers) have a say…
Readers at Geeksugar.com were asked if eBooks should cost the same as traditional books. 94% of those who responded agreed that eBooks should cost less. (They’re not just being contrary either, they’ve thought it through.) Take the link to read a few of the responses. So publishers try to gouge loyal readers who obviously love books and are eager …
Feb 17
Apple iPad Will Use DRM… Ahoy eBook Pirates! Come and get ’em!
Jorgen sent us a link to a story at PCWorld that reports iPad will adopt a DRM lock on the ePub format eBooks it will sell at its iBook store. That’s part of the stupid deal they inked with some large and greedy publishers (Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Macmillan, and Hachette) that wanted to raise …
Feb 16
The White House Does eBooks
This from our friend Jorgen. A story at arstechnica.com about the White House releasing the 400 page (yawn) Annual Economic Report of the President in PDF, Amazon Kindle and ePub formats for eBook Readers. That development adds an environmental spin, and certainly puts a bit of tech-gloss on a President who just kicked the hell out …
Feb 14
Will eBooks Replace Paperbacks?
“So will the eReader replace the paperback?” That question and many others are answered in a Net4Now.com post directed at the eReader generation. (Already, it’s a generation…) The author Jade offers an in-depth, well-researched replay of the basics and ponders the future as we pause to collect our thoughts in the post-iPad-Release eBook Revolution. A great Sunday read …
Feb 12
A Valentine’s Day Gift for those of us who…well, left it to the last minute.
eBook Rumors has been such a serious little blog lately, I thought I’d take a breath and direct the Valentine’s Day procrastinators in the crowd to something a little lighter at Ubergizmo.com where they’ll find a post about a cool gift that Sony’s offering. Check out the specifics at the link.
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