I just came across another digital magazine retailer in the Ukraine and Russia. They have about 200 titles on their site, and you can buy both individual issues and subscriptions. You can read up to 10 pages of an issue free, and the pages displayed match the print layout. Besides current magazines, they also offer [...]
Entries from April 27th, 2010
Wattpad sponsors poetry contest
April 27th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From the press release: Do you have a poem pacing about in the confines of your computer or your mind? Is it wild? Gentle? Hilarious? Tragic? Insane? Serious? Abstract? Concrete? All of the above? Or is it something completely different? Submit it to Wattpad and you may get published! Be sure to include the tag [...]
Smashwords adds TOC support
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Mark Coker just announced this over on the Smashwords blog: Smashwords authors can now add enhanced navigation to their ebooks with linked, clickable ToCs. This is good news for our 4,992 authors (we should reach 5,000+ by tonight or tomorrow!) and their 10,943 books. The lack of live ToC support has been one of the [...]
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“No more gatekeepers” – where do Publishers stand?
April 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · opinion
by Gareth Cuddy of Direct eBooks I was asked to speak at an eBook event last week in Cork and there was some great debate before during and after as is the wont at these types of events. I also read an interesting article by Bryan Appleyard in the Sunday Times examining the iPad and [...]
Tags:gatekeepers·publishers·stand
More iPad Wifi problems
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
This time it’s from South Korea. The Wall Street Journal is reporting: South Korea’s culture minister, Yu In-chon, strode into a government briefing room Monday for what seemed to be a routine photo-op as his ministry announced a $50 million program to help develop the country’s budding electronic-books industry. But trouble came when Mr. Yu [...]
Dictionary.com announces 10^7 mobile app downloads
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
From the press release: Dictionary.com (www.dictionary.com), the leading online and mobile dictionary, and a service of Ask.com, announced that it has reached the 10 million download milestone for its popular mobile products.Every month, 50 million unique users leverage Dictionary.com online and on-the-go with mobile devices for real-time word discovery. The company’s new iPad application, with [...]
New e-reader pilot program launched in Germany
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The University of Hagen (a distance learning school in Hagen, Germany) put out a press release earlier this month. A group of Graduate Education students were given Sony Touch Editions for the summer semester. All of the content for the summer semester is included on the e-reader, and the devices will only be loaned to [...]
India’s National Library plans a ‘Museum of the Word’
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
From Topnew.in: The National Library is planning to establish a a Museum of the Word to mark and preserve the long history of various scripts created, used and some lost in our country on continued history.The museum is to come up in an old heritage building, which was once the home of Warren Hastings, Bengal’s [...]
I can’t text and adore dusty old book,
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
…but when I was given an electronic reader, I was hooked. From the Daily Mail: Last week, millions of people spent days kicking their heels in airports and hotels, thanks to the great flight shutdown. I had emails from several friends marooned and bored in unlikely places. I felt sorry for them, because they were [...]
Reading on iPad before bed can affect sleep habits
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
I found this over on the L.A. Times blog. It’s true, by the way. The LCD screen is like looking into a flashlight, and it can mess up your sleep pattern. You really should set the iPad aside an hour or more before going to sleep. …But staring at the screen before bed could leave [...]
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