Amazon just posted this note on the Kindle forums: Dear Customers: Macmillan, one of the “big six” publishers, has clearly communicated to us that, regardless of our viewpoint, they are committed to switching to an agency model and charging $12.99 to $14.99 for e-book versions of bestsellers and most hardcover releases. We have expressed our [...]
Entries from January 31st, 2010
A brief review of the WikiReader
January 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
This was released back on October, so it’s a little late for a review. But I pulled it out again today so I could look something up, and I realized how much I use it. Also, there are a number of background details that I have yet to tell. The WikiReader is 4″ by 4″ [...]
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Texas Instruments has an ebook reader
January 31st, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
It’s only a reference design, but still I wish I could get my hands on it. If you’re into computers, then you might know that TI is a chip manufacturer (as well as making a number of gadgets under their own brand). For example, one of the gadgets that uses TI’s OMAPS processor was the [...]
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Australian ebooks to go over-the-counter
January 31st, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
This is slightly old, but I thought it worth a post. The Australian Publishers Association announced a new ebook distribution platform recently. It has a rather novel approach in that it is geared towards being used in a physical bookstore. According to the article, books form most Australian publishers will be available in any bookstore [...]
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An open letter from the CEO of Macmillan
January 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
I found this letter through Publisher’s Weekly. It was released Saturday. Given the length of this letter, I will psot my thought later. To: All Macmillan authors/illustrators and the literary agent community From: John Sargent This past Thursday I met with Amazon in Seattle. I gave them our proposal for new terms of sale for [...]
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Is this the iPad killer?
January 31st, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news
Sorry, sometimes I can’t help myself. I just came across a Quebec company with a new slate PC. The ExoPC Slate (that’s really the product name) has a 8.9 screen and runs Win7. It has all the features expected on a slate that the iPad doesn’t have: USB host, ethernet, webcam,VGA, headphones, microphones, and more. [...]
National Library of Medicine to digitize “Medical Heritage” works
January 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · digitization projects
The US National Library of Medicine is about to begin a new digitization project with a goal of converting its existing collection to digital form. The NLM project is part of an international effort to convert more than 30,000 works from some of the world’s leading medical libraries. When complete, the new content will be [...]
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The Past’s Digital Presence
January 31st, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
This is a interdisciplinary graduate student symposium that will be held at Yale University on 19-20 February. Some of the discussion panels will include: How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital sources in the humanities? If the “medium is the message,” then how does the message change when primary sources are [...]
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The Library of Congress has a Flickr stream
January 31st, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
I cam across this while researching another story, and I thought worth a post. The Flickr stream I found has (at the moment) 465 scanned pages from newspapers gone into the public domain. These pages don’t have much text; that could be OCRed. These are scans of full page pictures and other pages that don’t [...]
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Swedish publishers adopt social DRM
January 30th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
I just came across this post from a Swedish blogger. She’s reporting that almost all Swedish publishers have agreed to support Epub as their primary format, as well as drop the more restrictive forms of DRM in favor of social DRM. To be exact, they plan to add a form of digital watermark to the [...]
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