{"id":2636,"date":"2009-07-22T07:39:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T12:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2009-07-22T07:39:23","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T12:39:23","slug":"while-im-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2636","title":{"rendered":"While I’m Away…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Visitor,<\/strong><\/p>\n

eBook Rumors<\/strong> will be on hiatus from Thursday July 23 until Monday July 27, 2009. The eBook Revolution will no doubt charge ahead during our absence, as eBook Reader and hand-held device designers jockey and struggle for position and as smart publishers see the light and start to offer fair prices, yah<\/em>? <\/em>I’ve posted a few interesting links to tide you over. Thanks again\u00c2\u00a0for visiting. Feel free to comment your hearts out.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

John Cypher, Editor\/Correspondent<\/p>\n

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The Globe and Mail’s<\/strong><\/em> Social Trends Reporter Jill Mahoney<\/strong> has an excellent piece here<\/a> about how libraries are adapting to the digital age. The smart ones have been logged onto the changing times for years and are evolving to connect\u00c2\u00a0books, computers and the public. \u00c2\u00a0It’s all about staying relevant.<\/p>\n

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In a similar social shift<\/strong> we’ve found a story at the Augusta Chronicle<\/em> <\/a>where teachers are encouraging students to text the answers to questions. We’ve got teachers and profs making lectures available as podcasts, live streaming video\u00c2\u00a0with discussion boards as interface for posting questions. Students are encouraged to tweet, blog and chat online with classmates.\u00c2\u00a0Some\u00c2\u00a0are even releasing assignments and text references formatted for eBook readers and iPhone. Anything to engage the digital generation, yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n

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An update is available\u00c2\u00a0for<\/strong> Stanza<\/strong>, the popular eBook reading app for the iPhone\/iPod Touch–and recent Amazon.com purchase.\u00c2\u00a0Read what and where here<\/a> at Intomobile.com<\/strong>. They’re offering smoother page-turns in landscape and portrait orientations, etc. If you haven’t got Stanza get it here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Barnes and Noble<\/strong> is opening<\/strong> (or re-opening…remember we reported<\/a> that they abandoned eBook sales in 2003…). There’s an article about its re-opening\u00c2\u00a0here<\/a> at Reuters<\/strong>. Visit the store here<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0Looks like they’ve signed an exclusive deal to provide all content for <\/strong>Plastic Logic’s eReader<\/strong><\/a>. That should heat things up a bit for the other players like Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader.<\/p>\n

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More on Amazon’s thought-control<\/strong> tactics digging into the private libraries of Kindle subscribers without so much as knocking. It was a copyright issue that Amazon had to deal with that they settled rather arbitrarily in a fashion befitting the secret police. An article at Daniweb here<\/a> digs deeper\u00c2\u00a0into the invasion of privacy and asks the simple question: “Who owns the content you purchase?” (Another good reason to get rid of DRM!)<\/p>\n

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In the “She Ain’t No Lady” department<\/strong> this article “Gray Lady’s Dilemma<\/a>“\u00c2\u00a0by Brett Arends of the Wall Street Journal<\/em> explores the financial\u00c2\u00a0dilemma facing newspapers in the digital age. How do they go electronic and still turn a profit? (Difficult proposition since they’re only interested in making the same<\/em> profits. Not very adaptable of them…) But, Arends reassures us that\u00c2\u00a0such things\u00c2\u00a0are possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Visitor, eBook Rumors will be on hiatus from Thursday July 23 until Monday July 27, 2009. The eBook Revolution will no doubt charge ahead during our absence, as eBook Reader and hand-held device designers jockey and struggle for position and as smart publishers see the light and start to offer fair prices, yah? I’ve … <\/p>\n

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