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Are you eager to get an early look at your favorite author’s next book? Then I have good news and bad news for you.
Penguin has just announced a new program called First to Read. According to the press release this is an “exciting new program that will grant readers free sneak peeks of some of Penguin’s most anticipated books – months before they are available in stores and online retailers”, but what we’re really looking at is Penguin’s latest marketing foray.
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7″ budget tablets have long been worth buying at $99, and today they may have gotten some company. E-Fun has just announced their latest budget tablet, the Nextbook Premium 8HD, and if it lives up to E-Fun’s past reputation for decent but unexceptional hardware then this baby could be a keeper.
TBH, I do not know whether that will happen.
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What do you do if your biggest competitor is about to abandon the market in 11 days and there’s no real replacement other than you? Well, if you’re Feedly you update your blog with a little gloating.
Feedly is pleased to remind us today they they are the heir apparent to Google Reader. Ostensibly today’s news is an announcement that Feedly’s servers are now completely independent of Google, but in all honesty that was revealed last week with the update of the Feedly app for iPad and iPhone.
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The Readerpocalypse is only 11 days away, and new alternatives to Google Reader are still coming out of the woodwork.
I’ve just come across another news reader app called Yoelo Reader.Do you like minimalist layouts heavily accented in red? Then this is the news reading app for you.
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Here are a few stories to read this morning.
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There’s been no official announcement from Barnes & Noble, but a few minutes ago a reader tipped me to a minor change on the B&N website. They’ve restored the link to the PC and Mac apps.
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If you’ve been following the ebook news this past week then you’ve probably read about Joyland, Stephen King’s latest novel, and how it has already been pirated and released digitally.
Now, Mr King had decided not to release Joyland as an ebook (he wants you to buy the paper book in a bookstore, or Amazon), so I was all set to write a post showing the pointlessness of his decision. I was going to explain how he has no effective control over the digital release of his novel; he can only control whether readers pay for the copy.
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Has anyone tried FlowReader?
This is a several month old Google Reader alternative that combines your existing RSS feeds (they can be imported) with the news stories that your friends share on Twitter and Facebook, all of which can be read offline. It has the potential of combining a news junkie’s personally curated news sources with the more random readings suggested organically by your social network.
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Android tablets with laptop sized screens are nothing new, with both Viewsonic and Archos debuting out-sized devices last year, and now it seems yet another generic Chinese tablet maker has joined the fray.
The Colorfly CT132 has a screen the same size as the Archos FamilyPad, and it improves upon that older tablet with a quad-core CPU, a newer version of Android, better cameras, more storage, and a slightly lower price.
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Did you ever wonder what happens in a bookstore after everyone leaves for the night?
The following video was shot in Type books in Toronto, and it shows exactly what all booklovers secretly wished existed. Enjoy.
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