I’m not sure what to think of this. The video speaks for itself. Some students at Osaka University are trying to enhance the eBook reading experience and came up with Paranga.
Mar 28
A Robot Book called Paranga
Mar 27
Enhanced eBooks not selling…
Thanks Jorgen for this FutureBook story about the much-touted enhanced or interactive eBooks and their inability to gain ground against more traditional text on ePaper competitors.
I think it’s too early to judge the long-term viability of these hybrids since the eBook Market is really only in its infancy, and the machinery is just coming into place for designers to build for.
Mar 26
NookColor getting Flash & Apps in April
Liliputing reports on an update coming next month to Barnes and Noble’s popular NookColor eBook Reader that will include Flash support and downloadable Apps.
I guess B&N has decided to see their full color eBook Reader in the same way it is viewed in the marketplace: as a very affordable tablet computer.
Mar 25
Free eBooks Encourage eBook Sales
The Bookseller.com offers statistics that describe the trends driving eBook sales, and consumers are calling FREE titles an important factor in the deal.
Mar 24
The eBook Revolution continues to evolve…
Gigaom.com offers this post on Marc Parrish, VP of Retention and Loyalty Management for Barnes & Noble when he spoke at the Structure Big Data conference in New York. The article’s an excellent update as the publishing world goes digital, readers continue to adopt the technology and the eBook Revolution evolves.
Mar 23
eBook Headlines March 23, 2011
ComputerWorld tells us that despite a scare from full-color iPad, E Paper (E Ink) continues to share the market with the technology offering us some advances this year.
A PRNewsWire release heralds the DinoDirect.com Ten New Style Tablet and rumored iPad2 challenger.
Bloomberg.com points to a U.S. judge’s decision that kills Google’s $125 million digital library settlement it brokered to build the world’s largest digital library.
The SchoolLibraryJournal reports on Talking Books Digital Downloads becoming a hit with the visually impaired.
Mar 22
Amazon + Android = Apple iPad slayer.
Ostatic.com proposes in a post that Amazon is the only company out there with the necessary clout to take the Apple iPad on, even though its E Ink Kindle eBook Reader is a single function device.
To do it, the article proposes Amazon team with Android to create a multifunction tablet of its own, citing 24% of consumers polled favoring an Amazon tablet over Apple’s.
It sounds like a battle that is destined to happen.
Mar 21
Kobo Wireless eReader $60!
Okay. Cnet reports on this amazing sale of the Kobo E Ink Wireless eReader for just $60!
I’ve used one of these devices and they’re very easy on the eyes, and extremely intuitive.
As the Cnet post says, the sale is confined to certain Borders stores so you’ll have to shop around, but at $60 it will be worth the effort!
This looks like a shrewd move by the troubled book giant Borders as they restructure after filing bankruptcy. Whatever it does for Borders it’s bound to make some readers very happy and jumpstart the eBook Reader pricing war that stirred the market last year.
Mar 19
eBook Review – They Had Goat Heads by D. Harlan Wilson
They Had Goat Heads by D. Harlan Wilson – Review by G. Wells Taylor
D. Harlan Wilson’s collection They Had Goat Heads (© 2010 Atlatl Press) almost explodes in your hands. The author’s deft and rapid-fire writing style reaches critical mass in seconds and a literary event of cosmic magnitude occurs. Then you realize you were standing too close: you’re not in real time or space anymore.
Years ago I was lucky enough to review Wilson’s collection, The Kafka Effekt (© 2001 Eraserhead Press), and that, my first experience with the irreal, was a trial by fire that barely prepared me for exposure to his latest.
The 39 stories in They Had Goat Heads sprint, machine-gun and warp the reader to places where normal rational thinking would never dare go and you begin to wonder, as things progress whether the collection might actually cause brain damage. One thing is certain, you will come away from the experience knowing you have read a cutting-edge piece of literature: the images are stimulating and resonant, in manifold ways unique and strangely familiar.
But I don’t want to hang They Had Goat Heads with the label ‘literature’ because it seems immune to the staid and predictable conventions often associated with the form. Wilson’s collection flies in the face of such simple categorization. Continue reading
Mar 18
Liliputing Compares the B&N NOOKcolor with the Samsung Galaxy Tab
Liliputing pits the 7-inch, full color Samsung Galaxy Tab against a ‘tweaked’ 7-inch Barnes & Noble NOOKcolor eBook Reader. Comparison and detailed video at the link.
The Galaxy Tab’s extras are soon overshadowed by its $500 pricetag, when the hacked NOOKcolor comes in at half that price.