by Gareth Cuddy of Direct eBooks So, I finally bit the bullet and got a Sony 600 yesterday. I know, I know, I’m way behind the times, but the reason I hadn’t splashed out previously is because I am so happy with my “old” Sony, the PRS-505. Its reliable, has great screen quality and sits [...]
Entries from April 23rd, 2010
1 in 4 Chinese read ebooks
April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · surveys & polls
I found an article on a reading survey conducted in the PRC. There were over 19k responses from 29 provinces, municipalities, and autonomous regions, which makes this the largest survey response group I’ve ever seen (for digital reading, at least). From the Global Times: “The public gets its news and information from the Internet today,” [...]
New E-reader for the Education market?
April 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware rumors
All Things Digital broke a story yesterday about Kakai, a quiet little tech start-up in Silicon Valley. According to ATD’s sources, Kakai is planning to release an e-reader for the academic market. I think there is a better than even chance that they’re right. According to their source, the e-reader will have 2 screens and [...]
Seizing the Means of Publication … No Small Undertaking
April 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
by John Miedema reposted with permission of the author It sounds revolutionary to “seize the means of publication” but it is no small undertaking. A few weeks back I dashed off a post introducing a series on epublishing. I had hacked together an experimental epub in minutes. I’ve been playing with epub files since. I [...]
Alex – Second Impressions
April 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Android, hardware reviews
I don’t normally do a second impressions post, but a couple people have requested one. I bet some of you would like pictures. I’m only now starting to take some; I’ll post the pictures and a short video tomorrow. I regret that I haven’t posted them yet, but I honestly expected that at least one [...]
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Oppo Enjoy hands on video
April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Android, hardware news, video
I just came across a hands on video for the Oppo Enjoy. This is a Chinese e-reader with a 6″ E-ink screen, runs Android 1.5, 2GB storage, and a microSD card. Format support inclides TXT, HTML, CHM, EPUB, PDF ebooks and their zip format, and notably Microsoft Office file formats doc, xls, ppt. Other than [...]
Marvell announces the Moby MED
April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Marvell announced their latest reference design yesterday. The MED tablet is a new variation of the existing Moby design. As you can tell from the name, the target audience for the MED is the medical profession. I haven’t heard back about the specs, but I’d guess that they are the same as the Moby. This [...]
Hachette Children’s UK is getting into ebooks
April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From The Bookseller: Hachette Children’s UK is to launch its first e-book range in May and will make around 120 titles available as e-books this year. The publisher plans to keep the same pricing for its e-books as its printed editions and is moving towards simultaneous publication of printed books and e-books, where possible. Andrew [...]
Love & Sex Now Available in the Kindle Store
April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
I couldn’t resist messing with the title. It should actually read something along the lines of: TIME Magazine’s ‘Love, Sex, Freedom and the Paradox of the Pill Now Available Exclusively in the Kindle Store from the press release: Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that TIME magazine has released the short e-book by the magazine’s executive [...]
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