Kindle 2 talks and apparently it exhibits this controversial text-to-speech function in a voice similar to Tom Cruise’s. A rumor over at Engadget.com suggests it’s based on or was voiced by Cruise. You can find an analysis of Kindle 2’s voice here at KindleBoards. Give it a listen. What do you think? Is Amazon.com hoping the Top Gun will make Kindle …
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Feb 19
NEW WORLD – OLD CONTROL
When you’re trying to convince consumers to buy new products, why throw a hassle into using those new products? It’s been proven that DRM is a drag on new markets when it impeded the growth of the digital music and movie industries, generating more piracy and hostility than sales. Why do they think it will …
Feb 18
Adobe’s Going Mobile
Adobe is promising support for reflowable PDF technology (“The reflowable PDF technology allows text to auto-adjust as per the device screen size for maintaining the layout integrity” – Techtree.com) and XML-based eBook standard with EPUB file format in its new ADOBE Reader Mobile SDK. This news came from the on-going GSMA Mobile World Congress 2009 …
Feb 17
An Imperfect Reader for an Imperfect World
Here’s a link to a very interesting discussion at Gizmodo.com attempting to explain what is seen as the slow adoption of eBook readers. Their reasons are many and well thought out, but the question remains: Why are the masses not grabbing these things up?
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 15
The Price is Still Too High
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 …
Feb 13
Stretch your head around this…
So, Kindle 2 is available. The overpricing and specs are here. I wanted to mention the debate that has cropped up since its release. You should know that it is a debate that we could only be having in the FUTURE, in some sort of spacey metropolis with robots. Sorry, I love saying things like that. It goes like …
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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