All right. They’re waking up over at Barnes and Noble. I hate to say I told you so, but Dec. 30, I kind of inferred it so, in my mildly catty way, that the old flagship Barnes and Noble was missing the boat. Read this story. Barnes and Noble has acquired Fictionwise (15.7 million cash) …
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Mar 05
BUZZKILL ALERT!
This article about eBooks and eBook Readers from the snooty bastards at Time Magazine got my dander up. Read it here. I don’t offer it to venerate the snobbish tone, but to illustrate the kind of mocking resistance eBook and other technologies face from the establishment. (When I say “establishment” I mean, powers-that-be, status quo… …
Mar 04
First iPhone, now this rumored challenge to AMAZON’s attempt at eBOOK EMPIRE!
Over at the theiphoneblog.com you can hear rumbling that is being felt deep inside the Amazon, and might be the reason the tribe there is getting ready to launch a new touch-screen Kindle 3 in the fall. The growing phenomena of iPhone & iTouch eBook reading has the people at Apple watching with great interest, …
Mar 02
I’m sorry, but I have to report this rumor…
God! Just when I thought all the Kindle-talk was winding down, yah? Honestly, there are other eBook Reading devices… If this rumor is true, it proves that the eBook Revolution is kicking into high gear. (and suggests that Amazon is already feeling the heat…) Read the story here.
Mar 01
Gadgets and Gizmos out the Ying Yang…
Here’s another interesting piece of machinery that can be applied to the eBook Revolution. Plustek has the BookReader, a device that will scan in printed text (your books) and convert it into a lifelike voice (voice options there…). Â At $699 you’ve got to be serious about converting books into MP3 audio files, but the application …
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 27
Newspaper Extinction? Not likely…
You can read it and see it all over the place. But that doesn’t make it true.  This morning CNN had a story about the loss of newspaper jobs and the approaching demise of the newspaper industry. Watch it below. The powers that be blame the Internet for a decline in profitability due to the loss …
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 24
Tired of Kindle 2 Talk Yet?
Okay, I’m almost finished with it. (Yah, right!) I might have sounded a bit catty earlier, about Stephen King‘s contribution to the launch of the new Kindle. I don’t want my reservations about his rationale to undercut what I believe to be a sincere effort on his part to embrace the new technology. Mr. King has …
Feb 23
Not something Amazon will be happy to hear…
While waiting in line at a coffee shop, I watched an 80-year-old man at a table reading something on his iPhone. The old devil had his specs on deftly flipping through pages…quite comfortably defining his place in the digital age. It really hit home how prepared people are for eBooks and eBook Readers. It also …
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