From the press release: With the book selling widget, FastPencil completely changes book commerce for authors by extending beyond the limitations of Amazon and other on- and off- line bookstores. When a consumer decides to purchase a book, the FastPencil BookBuy Widget presents them with the easiest possible way to purchase it right now. Unlike [...]
Entries from March 21st, 2010
Six iPad Magazine Demos: Which is the best?
March 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · opinion, software reviews, video
Last week I posted an opinion on how not to release a digital magazine, and as I was looking at the post I got the idea to collect the iPad magazine demos and compare them.
New E-ink Watch from Seiko
March 21st, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Seiko announced their second E-ink watch Thursday. The watch has a new display system that is just as legible as the original, but allows for a much richer range of imagery and data to be displayed on the watch dial. The original watch had a segmented display (much like an ordinary watch). This watch replaced [...]
Browsing the web with your DR800SG
March 21st, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
The DR800SG came out about a month ago, and it shares a trait with most other e-readers with a wireless connection: you can’t use it to browse the web. The wireless connection costs money, and naturally Irex (and their business partners) only want you to use it to access their ebookstore. Most of the other [...]
Print Newspapers win out over online (Canada)
March 21st, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From the Media Daily News: A new survey of Canadian adults in 53 media markets indicates continuing popularity for print newspapers north of the border, with a surprisingly low number of survey respondents only reading content online.The survey covered populations in markets served by a total of 81 Canadian daily newspapers (as well as 60 [...]
Tags:canada·newspapers·online·print·win
Got Glue? (an alternative to Amazon links)
March 21st, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From Digital Book World: Adaptive Blue’s Firefox browser add-on, Glue, has been downloaded an impressive 2.4 million times and counting, and it is integrated with a variety of book-related ecommerce, social networking and review websites, including Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, IndieBound.com, Goodreads.com, Oprah.com and many, many others. Their widgets are actively being used on a wide variety [...]
Tags:alternative·Amazon·glue·links
National Library goes the e-way (India)
March 20th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
From the Times of India: Care to access the catalogue at National Library from home? And how about requisitioning books online? Or for that matter, downloading rare, priceless books displayed on the website? From this month-end, you can do it all at the click of a mouse. Readers from across the world can access the [...]
The future of children’s book publishing
March 19th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
From the Washington Post: Jeff Kinney has worked full-time for a decade designing popular kid-friendly Web games. He also writes stories, but his best-selling series, “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” was originally published online, not in a book. This free online version regularly gets 70,000 hits a day. If he can capture the attention of [...]
Tags:book·children·future·publishing
Indie Publishers Look to Subscriptions for Sales Boost
March 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From Daily Finance: However the future of book publishing shakes out, independent companies are harder pressed than ever to figure out how to survive, much less thrive. Some publishers feel the answer is to try a more direct approach, complimenting the usual bookseller and retailer-oriented sales channels with a subscription model that reaches readers directly. [...]
Newpan unveils ebook reader for Israel
March 19th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Details are sketchy at this point, but Globes is reporting: Newpan Ltd. yesterday unveiled the ebook reader that it will distribute in Israel in a few weeks. It is the first ebook device with extensive contracts with major Israeli publishers, including Keter publishing House Ltd., Am Oved Publishers Ltd. Yediot Ahronot Publishing Ltd., Ahuzat Bayit [...]
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