Kindle for the Academic

Alex Golub reviews the advantages (and a few limitations, at least for now) of e-book readers.

Sourced at Inside Higher Ed

Filed Under: [eBooks]

Posted on 03 Nov 2009 around 7pm

It’s Time for Wider Acceptance of e-Textbooks

"Because the printed book is such a perfect technology, print books will surely continue to be produced and purchased, especially for leisure reading. But the time has come for greater use of e-textbooks for educational purposes. Efforts should be made to overcome the remaining obstacles to their broad acceptance." Editorial by Bonita Wilson, CNRI.

Sourced at D-Lib Magazine

Filed Under: [eBooks • Text Books]

Posted on 03 Nov 2009 around 7pm

Mobiles, eBooks, Androids and Media

The Pulse Report from San Francisco-based analysts Flurry claims that in the last four months, book apps have exceeded the popularity of games apps on the iconic iPhone. One out of every five new apps launched in October was a book! Apple clearly have a potential media winner if they ever get a tablet to market and also they have the potential to do to books what they have done to games. Everyone said that the games needed dedicated devices and although these still dominate there is a clear segment that are happy with just one device.

Sourced at Booksellers Association

Filed Under: [Publishing • eBooks • Technology]

Posted on 03 Nov 2009 around 4pm

Amazon Reverses Stance on Text-to-Speech Feature

"Following protests from the Authors Guild, Amazon has decided to allow rightsholders to decided for themselves whether or not to enable the text-to-speech function on the new Kindle 2. The Authors Guild said the feature was an unauthorized use of an audio right."

Read the whole thing here from Publisher's Weekly Latest News

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Posted on 02 Mar 2009 around 4pm

Why Kindle Should Be An Open Book

"Unless Amazon embraces open standards, the Kindle's lead will become a very short story."

Read the whole thing here from Forbes.com: Technology News

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Posted on 23 Feb 2009 around 6pm

eBook machines revisited

David Rothman over at TeleRead has written an interesting piece that shows some of the early ebook appliances.

Read the whole thing here from TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

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Posted on 14 Feb 2009 around 6pm

Best of TOC (Tools of Change Conference)

An e-book of Best of TOC is available at no charge from O’Reilly Press. at this link. The assemblage of tech writing by TOC speakers and others was put together as a showpiece for the second-generation Espresso Book Machine shown at the conference, with p-books printed and bound in seven minutes (on the low-end device; shorter times for more expensive equipment are promised).

Read the whole thing here from TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

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Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 10pm

An optimistic observation for publishers around ebooks

Mike Shatzkin from Publishing Frontier writes:

"OK, here’s an optimistic observation for publishers."

"Let’s say more and more real book readers find, ‘you know, reading on this iPhone, Android, smartphone I have is pretty good…’ And the marketplace for reading on the phones grows quickly. Plenty of skeptics for that idea, sure. But not impossible. (Keep this in mind: three doublings make ebooks 8% of the market. Will that happen in 3 years? It certainly couldn’t take as long as five…)" ....

Read the whole thing here from Publishing Frontier

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Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 2pm

Adobe and Stanza Open Up iPhone to Secure eBooks

"The announcement that Stanza will support Adobe’s ACS4 DRM is good news for the wider book industry. It enables PDF Adobe eBooks and epub files to be read on the iPhone platform through Stanza’s market leading free book reader ..."

(Via Booksellers Association.)

Read it here

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Posted on 12 Feb 2009 around 2pm

What’s New With The Kindle 2

This morning Amazon officially announced its second-generation ebook, the Kindle 2...

(Via TechCrunch.)

Filed Under: [eBooks • News • The Web]

Posted on 06 Feb 2009 around 9am