Jan 26
GoodeReader speculates on the types of people who take part in eBook Piracy, and offers some solutions to the underground movement of digital editions.
I still think the price of eBooks is the biggest motivation for eBook Piracy and illegal file sharing. It’s too easy to justify downloading pirated content when the easily copied, stored and manufactured item is priced similar to its real-world equivalent. (In this case hard covers and paperbacks.)
Jan 25
GoodeReader is on hand for the opening of the major publishing conference Digital Book World 2012 in New York.
Business Standard warns students to prepare for the eBook Revolution after Apple’s recent leap into the eText business.
The Columbia Tribune Daily has more on the battle for eReader supremacy, and the dangerous adoption of proprietary formats.
PCAuthority updates us on the latest book emulators available for iPad. It’s meant to mimic the actual book-reading experience.
Jan 24
ZDNet’s Ed Bott tells us how Apple is attempting to sabotage the eBook Revolution by introducing a new proprietary format that locks out the open standard ePub they had previously claimed to fully support.
Jan 23
According to CNN the eBook Revolution continues its conquest of the mainstream marketplace with the gift giving season almost doubling the number of eReader and Tablet owners.
With ownership by adults jumping from 10% in December 2011 to 19% in January 2012, Â you can bet we’ll see half the adult population in possession of an eReader or Tablet by Christmas 2012.
Jan 22
The AppleInsider updates us on the class-action lawsuit that says Apple and publishers engaged in a ‘price-fixing conspiracy’ and teamed up to display ‘antagonism’ toward Amazon’s pricing scheme.
(Is it just me or is it hard to feel sorry for any of these guys?)
Jan 20
According to Reuters the American Congress has postponed the Monday vote on flawed anti-piracy legislation (SOPA & PIPA) that provoked the Internet to strike. (Us too…) The shelved legislation could have seriously hampered the Internet’s architecture and freedoms, and started a shift of power back to the old status quo. (It would have impacted the eBook Revolution too.)
eBookMagazine has the scoop on Apple’s iBooks Author publishing tool released yesterday at an ‘Education Event’ in the Guggenheim.
The Daily Beast wonders if tablet Apps and eBooks mean extinction for Pop-Up books.
And check out this MarketWatch video that speculates on the future of Enhanced eBooks. Are they the future or a passing fancy?
Jan 19
Apple is holding an “Education Event” at the Guggenheim rumored to center around eBook publishing software for iPad and an iBookstore redesign. Time has a link here.
EContent gives us a short review of the eBook Revolution in 2011.
MarketWatch says eBook ‘discovery’ and sample downloading are booming at public libraries.
eBookNewser posted a list of the top 20 free eBook Apps of the week.
Jan 18
eBookRumors.com was proud to join thousands of other web sites today in a global strike to protest the flawed American legislation: Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA).
It is an obvious power grab facilitated by connected politicos buckling under pressure from industries that have tried to control digital content since its inception.
Early reports suggest that those responsible for the legislation are now reconsidering if not outright abandoning it. It isn’t over, but they’ll know we’re ready when they try again.
Learn more about it here.
Jan 17
Here’s a very interesting story and video at Liliputing where a ‘hacked’ Sony PRS-T1 Reader running Google Android shows the true potential of E Ink displays.
Jan 16
The Washington Post reports that the eBook Revolution is having a major impact on the public library system.
It’s a case of being too successful for your own good. With limited digital editions to loan, the library waiting lists are growing insanely long for readers willing to wait. And could any wait feel justified if you’re ordering it on your eBook Reader, a device designed to allow you instant access to any published material you want…even without leaving the comfort of your bedroom?
These are growing pains that will eventually be solved as more publishers get aboard the digital revolution, and libraries determine the perfect mix of digital and paper to order on their budgets.
In the meantime, people will just have to be patient (or go buy the title you want).
