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Entries from January 30th, 2010
Hacking the Kindle DX
January 30th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
You may recall that a few weeks Amazon announced the Kindle SDK, which will allow software developers to write their own apps for the K2 and the Kindle DX. Well, not everyone has the patience to wait for Amazon. Before I get into the code that Darron Black has running on his Kindle DX, I [...]
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Do you love your kids?
January 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Someone forwarded me a link to this article in the Boston Herald. It has the best iPad put down that I’ve seen so far. (I wish I was this clever.) “If you like your kids, get them an iPad so they can play games,” said Russ Wilcox, the head of E Ink Corp., which created [...]
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Amazon is pulling Macmillan books. Why?
January 30th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Brad Stone of the NYTimes just reported that Amazon has pulled Macmillan books as a response to a dispute over ebook prices. I can’t confirm why this happened, but I can say that there are a startlingly large number of Macmillan titles that aren’t being sold by Amazon. I’ve glanced through the first 5 pages [...]
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DBW final roundup post
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
This will be the last of the roundup posts. I hope you enjoyed reading them as much as I did. Publisher’s Weekly Digital Book World: Little Consensus on e-Book Pricing, Timing GalleyCat As the Digital Book World Turns
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DigitalPreservation.gov launches new feature series: “On the Leading Edge”
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
from the announcement: The Library of Congress is presenting a new series of articles that focus on organizations that are working on innovative approaches to digital preservation and access. Known as “On the Leading Edge,” the series kicks off with a story about DigitalPreservationEurope.Future articles will examine institutions, partnerships and projects that are breaking new [...]
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DigitalPreservation.gov launches podcast series
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
From the announcement: The Library of Congress presents a new podcast series, featuring interviews with prominent digital preservation practitioners and thought leaders. These podcasts offer a chance to hear experts talk about their lessons learned and goals for future projects.The debut podcasts are interviews with Patricia Cruse and Martin Halbert. Cruse is the director of [...]
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PageBurst – new digital platform from Elsevier
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
From the press release: Elsevier, the leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical information, today announced the launch of Pageburst™, an interactive digital learning platform for Elsevier health science education content. Pageburst surpasses existing e-Book platforms because it is designed for the way students learn, with features such as integrated multimedia, text-to-speech, social networking tools [...]
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Android on the Ectaco Jetbook
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
The Jetbook development community (it’s one guy who goes by the username gr8npwrfl) has announced that Android is running on the Jetbook. He hasn’t posted any pictures yet. From MobileRead: I made a major breakthrough today !! I got the signon screen up and running on the jetbook running Android 2.0 ! Now I have [...]
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FBReader 0.12.2 announced
January 29th, 2010 · 3 Comments · software news
An update for FBReader was announced Friday with bug fixes that included a non terminating process under Windows, and fixes for Czech, Finnish, French, German, Italian, and Ukrainian localizations. I use FBReader on a number of different Linux handhelds. There are a couple of things that bug me, but it’s one heck of a great [...]
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