Can’t we all just get along? I love this stuff. Now Sony’s eBook Reader PRS-700 (a rumored new version is on the way too…) has joined forces with Google’s massive army of digitally scanned works, now converted to epub format. Read the story here or at Techtree.com. It’s all to get in the face of Amazon’s …
Category: eBooks
eBook formats listed and discussed.
Mar 18
“Bande Dessinée” at the Paris Book Fair
 The Paris Book Fair  continues with a shift in focus to the companies Aquafada and MobiLire who have a different take on the eBook Reader. Read the full story at PCWorld here. They’re adapting smaller smartphones with software to display full-page comics and graphic novels on tiny screens. MobiLire is using a paintstaking process based …
Mar 17
Wattpad.com – Read What You Like – Share What You Write.
Wattpad.com offers eBooks to Mobile users. They’ve got a really interesting and large selection of free eBooks formatted for your favorite device. Not just the old public domain stuff either. (Ever read Moby Dick on a cell phone?) Writers and publishers are using it to show off their wares, and users can add their two cents …
Mar 10
Whoops… well, how was I to know? It’s Read An eBook Week!
Sorry folks. Turns out this is Read an eBOOK WEEK! Apparently it runs from March 8-19, 2009. How was I to know, I mean, come on… I’ve been busy, and… But there’s a new technology for you. It’s being celebrated and few of us know. (I’m assuming few of us know…yah?) Anyway, I’m not going …
Feb 28
Digital Divide Narrows
Author Patrick Carman (wow…mental gap there…at first I thought Eric Carmen…) is flogging a new multimedia book, Skeleton Creek. See the full story here. The children’s ghost mystery is a hybrid that takes the form of an ‘actual’ book that is also an online movie. Both elements depend on the other for the complete experience. …
Feb 25
An Excellent Option…now we need a Kiosk!
Here’s a nice warm and fuzzy, environmentally friendly meshing of worlds, perfect for anybody who’s nervous about leaving the Paperback Age behind. It’s another fantastic option, yah? Using print-on-demand technology, the Espresso Book Machine can print a paperback in 3 – 5 minutes. That’s so cool! I can see this working very well. It will take a …
Feb 16
Freedom for millions…
Happy President’s Day or Family Day or happy what-have-you…depending where you make your home. China’s authors and readers are taking full advantage of online and digital publishing. The full story’s here. Let’s hope the follow-up headline isn’t about their fun-free government putting more restrictions on Internet access. So the net’s opening doors to expression for …
Feb 12
And here comes Android…
Not sure if I’ll say Google is getting into the act, or getting back into the act, or letting us know exactly where they are in the act, but Google, once a favorite of dead authors for digitizing public-domain books, is now making those works available over the phone. 500,000 of these eBooks are now …
Feb 11
Adventure in the Palm of Your Hand
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 10
Of course it’s brand new technology, so they’re still paying for research and development, yah? It’s ridiculous.
Kindle 2 is here. You know I think it’s too expensive. And Stephen King signed on for the pillaging tour with an “original” story of a POSSESSED KINDLE! (Can you imagine a machine with special powers? Honestly, Stephen, can you? This is like the umpteenth time…) I always say there’s nothing that will capture the imagination of the average …
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