March 11, 2010
In his review of the new Irex eReader--the first targeted at the US market, with 3G and an interesting "mall" concept for buying eBooks--Wall Street Journal tech columnist Walter Mossberg says the Irex has some good...
Google has made its first book canning deal with a national government's ministry of culture, reports The Bookseller. Through the agreement, Google will scan, and pay for the scanning of, public domain books from libraries in Rome and Florence. The coolest part is that,...
Hachette Book Group reported its forth quarter 2009 numbers yesterday. Profits were up in forth quarter, despite a decrease in sales of Stephanie Meyer's 'Twilight' books. But eBooks were there to take up some of the slack!
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The iBooks store will have a sprawling network of categories for iPad readership--a shopping experience beyond the App Store's simple interface. Forbes explored a report by Busted Loop about the inner workings of the iBooks platform. Here's more...
EPub, an open and widely-used format for eBooks, is a great ideal, but, as Gizmodo points out in a lengthy post running down the various eBook and DRM formats, but various companies different kinds of DRM basically kills the promise of...
Where will you be at midnight tonight? We know, even if you won't admit it--you will be sitting in front of your computer, like the rest of us, waiting for Apple to switch on the iPad pre-order button (which this blogger is betting they won't do until much earlier in the morning). Then you will pre-order your iPad. Right?
In case you haven't been...
HarperOne has just launched a series of new eBook editions of the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Bible, making this popular edition of The Good Word available on the major eReaders, including Kindle, Sony Reader, Nook and various smartphones. The newly available editions include the NRSV, NRSV with Apocrypha, NRSV Catholic Edition, The HarperCollins Study Bible (...
Dell's upcoming mini-tablet, called the Streak, will come with the Kindle app pre-loaded, reports Engadget. Dell is apparently hammering out a content agreement with Amazon to place all its digital content apps, including its Mp3 store and the...
March 10, 2010
In an GalleyCat interview this morning, one New Yorker staff writer refused to "sugarcoat" the declining state of long form journalism. However, he placed hope in online outlets and digital tools for carrying the art into the 21st Century.Today's guest on the Morning Media Menu was ...
Distributor Baker & Taylor and LibreDigital are partnering with Elsevier, the scientific, medical and technical publisher, to bring Elsevier's books to the forthcoming Blio platform. The titles will include all sorts of rich-text enhancements, including video, audio and other cool stuff.
Tom Morgan, Chairman and CEO of Baker...
