From the press release: NetRead Software and Services, LLC, a solutions-provider to the book industry, launched EbookCaster today, a digital warehousing, content, and metadata distribution application. NetRead’s EbookCaster addresses the challenge of delivering properly-formatted electronic content and metadata on-demand to the major ebook device companies, online ebook companies, and libraries. … NetRead celebrates the 10-year [...]
Entries from May 26th, 2010
NetRead announces EbookCaster
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments · publishing news
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Baker & Taylor signs deal with Simon & Schuster, De Gruyter
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments · publishing news
From the press release: Baker & Taylor Inc., the world’s largest distributor of physical and digital books and entertainment products, today at Book Expo America announced it has signed agreements to provide print-on-demand services – via its TextStream Digital Print Service unit – to Simon & Schuster and German academic publisher De Gruyter. …The agreements [...]
BEA 2010: Kobo
May 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
There’s not much in the way of real news to report here, but I was told that the new Kobo apps were coming “real soon now”. Also, Kobo isn’t planning on a second e-reader. Right now they’re focusing on getting the apps out the door, expanding to more countries (hint, hint), and improving the user [...]
Copia E-readers Delayed until Fall
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
I briefly stopped by the Copia booth. Copia debuted their reading platform and e-readers at CES 2010. If you’re not familiar with Copia, then think of them as reading meets social media. They had some really impressive demos back at CES, and the demo taday was even better (it worked). They didn’t have any devices [...]
New Android E-reader from Shenzhen Switek
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Android, hardware news
Shenzhen Switek is a 5 year old consumer electronics company based in Shenzhen, China. (FYI: Shenzhen is a city in China just across the border from Hong Kong.) This was their first US trade show, and they brought their 2 e-reader models with them. The first is your standard Netronix model. Switek is calling it [...]
New Sony Screen can be wrapped around a pencil
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
This may never be used in an e-reader, but it’s still shiny. Sony just demoed a new ultra-flexible OLED screen.The amazing part isn’t the screen, but that the electronics behind the screen are this thin and flexible. via Akihabara News
Kids more likely to own a cell than a book
May 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The Telegraph is reporting: Almost nine-in-10 pupils now have a mobile compared with fewer than three-quarters who have their own books in the home, it was disclosed. The study by the National Literacy Trust suggested a link between regular access to books outside school and high test scores. According to figures, some 80 per cent [...]
The E-reader is _not_ Toast
May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
There’s an editorial over on Futurebook about a recent market survey in the UK. Tom Tivnan thinks that the dedicated e-reader is a goner, and I disagree. Here’s the key quote: In this year’s Reading the Future, The Bookseller’s third annual survey of UK consumer reading habits, we had an increased focus on digital. … [...]
The color Kindle’s not coming any time soon
May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Amazon, hardware news
Amazon held their shareholders meeting today, and Jeff Bezos dropped a few hints about the future of the Kindle. The bit about the color screen isn’t really news if you were keeping track of the screen manufacturers. None of the new screen tech is anywhere near ready for market. Here is what Jeff said (according [...]
BEA 2010: Lies Readers Tell Themselves
May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows
The real title for this session is “I’ll never pay more than $9.99 for an E-book!”, but that doesn’t work quite so well. The presenter was Michael Norris, senior analyst for Simba Information, an independent research house based in Connecticut. The first thing he told us was that when you look at survey data, be [...]
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