From the Open Book Alliance blog: On January 22, the National Writers Union held its third and final briefing for writers still scratching their heads about the proposed Google Book Settlement. Those unable to attend in person can check out a recording of the event on NWU’s website here. Just two days earlier, the American Society [...]
Entries from January 27th, 2010
Still confused about the Google Book Settlement?
January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
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California steps up digital textbook initiative
January 27th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
Last summer the governor of California announced the Free Digital Textbook Initiative. The goal: reduce the cost of education by finding digital textbooks that met California’s content standards and that could be freely copied and distributed. Phase one of the initiative was completed in August of last year, and covered digital textbooks with topics in [...]
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Brother SV-70
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Brother Japan just announced a second model in its SV Document Viewer line. The SV-70 has a 9.7″ E-ink screen, the same size screen as its predecessor, the SV-100B. Actually, aside from the model number I’d say the 2 models were identical. Based on the spec page, I would guess that the SV-70 will share [...]
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Mustek MER-6T
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Other than the 6″ touchscreen, the Mustek MER-6T has pretty much the same features as any other reader. It doesn’t say what kind of touchscreen (Wacom, capacitive, resistive), so we can’t tell if it will degrade the screen. The only image available was made in Photoshop, so that doesn’t help either. I don’t recognize the [...]
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Confessions of a Book Pirate
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
There is a really interesting interview over on The Millions. I’m not going to comment; this issue is too polarizing.
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Vook releases MotherVook publishing tool
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
From the press release: ALAMEDA, CA–(Marketwire – January 26, 2010) – Vook, the company that pioneered the integration of text and video into an innovative new multi-media experience, announced today the creation of MotherVook 1.0, a technology tool to provide a streamlined system for creating multi-media e-books, as well as an exclusive partnership with online [...]
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InfiBeam Pi – India’s first native ebook reader
January 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news
InfiBeam is a web retailer based in India whose chief feature is that it’s trying to be an Amazon clone. That makes sense; if you’re going to copy someone why not copy the most successful? Just like Amazon, InfiBeam has their new ebook reader front and center on the homepage. The InfiBeam Pi appears to [...]
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ABBYY releases first iPhone app
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
ABBYY is a developer with some really good OCR software packages. They just announced an app for the iPhone that converts business cards to address book listings. From the press release: MILPITAS, Calif., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ — ABBYY®, a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced the availability of its [...]
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B&N could be on the Apple tablet at launch
January 26th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware rumors, software rumors
TechCrunch is reporting that Barnes & Noble might be at The Unveiling on Wednesday. Erick goes on to speculate that the B&N ebookstore might even be integrated into the new tablet as the ebook reader. I highly doubt it. Look at the iTunes model as it applies to music. Apple deals directly with record labels [...]
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Publishers talk about Apple’s tablet
January 25th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware rumors, software rumors
You’ve probably already seen this, but 9to5mac has some insider information on the hypothetical Apple Tablet: We had a chance to speak with a few friends in the publishing business last week. Both work in Manhattan for companies not previously quoted by the Wall St. Journal or Bloomberg but who were recently contacted by Apple [...]
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