I haven’t had a chance to post anything new for the past few days; life got in the way. So let me give you a summary of what I’ll post in the next few days. PocketBook 302 I have what is probably the first PB302 in the wild. I got it at O’Reilly TOC (from [...]
Entries from February 28th, 2010
Introducing the Onda MyTile 9.7″ ebook reader – video
February 28th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
I just came across this dark horse entry into the e-reader field. Onda Communications is an Italian tech company that specializes in wireless devices: Wifi, 3G dongles, etc. The MyTile is their first ebook reader. It has a 9.7″ E-ink touch screen, Wifi, Bluetooth, SD card slot, HDMI out (WTF?), email, handwriting recognition, voice recording, [...]
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Introducing the Dainuo T500 MID
February 28th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
I found another odd little MID out of China. The Dainuo T500 is a 5″ tablet running, of all things, WindowsXP. The basic model has an Intel Atom CPU, 32GB Flash, 1GB RAM, Bluetooth, Wifi, and weighs 420g. There is no word yet on price or availability, but I suspect that we won’t see it [...]
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New Digital Publishing Conference in Asia
February 28th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
This just came across my desk, and I don’t think it’s been covered elsewhere. Digital Publishing Asia Pacific 2010 is a new conference, and will be held from June 9th to 10th, 2010 in Shanghai… You know what? I can’t muster the enthusiasm to write about _another_ digital publishing conference. It’s like there is a [...]
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New Reader for iPhone – great concept, poor execution
February 28th, 2010 · No Comments · software news, software reviews
I came across another reader app for the iPhone. It was developed by a company called dBelement, and it’s their 10th app for the iPhone. I don’t think it’s all that good as a reader app. The dBelement reader only supports PDF and TXT, and repeatedly choked on the PDFs I tried to read. The [...]
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Digital archivists work to save rare books, historical documents
February 28th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
From the Miami Herald: The three largest heritage libraries and the National Archives — keepers of much of Haiti’s complicated, heroic, rich story — were reportedly lost to the random nature of earthquakes. Within days of the Jan. 12 disaster, a university staffer 750 miles away worked frantically to deliver better news: the buildings were [...]
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Elsevier releases their publication guidelines
February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Elsevier announced Tuesday that they will be releasing the publishing standards they use internally. From the press release: Elsevier, the world’s leading publisher of scientific, technical and medical (STM) information products and services announced today that it is publicly sharing its internal custom publication guidelines so that the scientific and medical communities can have insight [...]
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ISBN releases position paper – each format will get a different number
February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
You might recall that a few months ago the International ISBN Agency requested input on how they each ISBN code was assigned to ebooks. At the time, the accepted practice was to assign each ebook format its own ISBN. The International ISBN Agency has decided to continue the accepted practice, and they released a position [...]
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New e-reader by Sagem Wireless (video)
February 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news, video
Charbax of ArmDevices.net is the first to ever get his hands on this new ebook reader from Sagem Wireless. We don’t know much about it yet, other than it’s an early prototype, has a capacitive touchscreen, and will come with 3G, Wifi, and a web browser.
Interview with Entourage team
February 27th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
E-Reader-info posted an interview with Entourage yesterday. It’s worth a read. Here is an excerpt: Q: The e-reader market is still in its infancy, but already there are leaders: Amazon, Sony and possibly the new Apple iPad. Will there be room for smaller players like enTourage? DA: There are many e-readers on the market but [...]
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