Digitimes are reporting that BenQ have released a limited edition e-reader, the nReader Young Guns. Only 200 will be sold, and they will come with the Young Guns comic book series preinstalled as part of a deal with the publisher. Retail has been set at NT$9,600 (US$300). The e-reader hardware is BenQ’ s latest model, [...]
Entries from July 26th, 2010
How Will eBookstores Earn Your Loyalty?
July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
Where I buy a print book often comes down to convenience (which store is closest), pricing, availability (is the book in stock?) and loyalty programs (e.g., member discounts). The choice of a brick-and-mortar vs. an online store adds in the component of urgency; do you need the book today or can it wait till tomorrow?
Tags:earn·ebookstores·loyalty
New 7″ LCD e-reader for Australia
July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
The GHT G2ER e-reader has a 7″ LCD screen, 2GB Flash, as well as pretty broad video, audio, and ebook support. But it doesn’t have a touchscreen, Wifi, or support for ebook DRM. The battery life is also disappointing. If you ask me, this is another converted digital picture frame. I also think it’s the [...]
Author’s Guild respond to Wylie/Random House
July 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
The Author’s Guild have responded to the events of last Thursday. Here;s the best part: 4. To a large extent, publishers have brought this on themselves. … Knowledgeable authors and agents, however, are well aware that e-book royalty rates of 25% of net proceeds are exceedingly low and contrary to the long-standing practice of authors [...]
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The Screw You eBook Deal
July 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · opinion
Every week it seems something new is happening in eBookland to set the ebook cause back a decade or two. Always at the forefront of the reversal of fortune is greed. This week’s menace to eBookland is literary agent Andrew Wylie and his new publishing venture Odyssey. Wylie could have summed up his actions in simple terms: to disserve both [...]
Apple add Newstand section to App Store
July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · app store news, Apple
Apple added a new section to the Features tab of the App Store. It’s called Newstand, and you can access it on all iOS devices. This new section highlights news source apps like newspapers, magazines, and web sources like Zinio, Instapaper, and NPR News. Probably the only ones who will care are the information junkies [...]
Yen Plus to go digital only
July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Yen Press announced back in April that their manga anthology Yen Plus would cease being printed with the July issue and would switch to being a digital only magazine. This is the first that I’ve heard of this magazine, and I find it rather interesting. It was launched in December of 2007 with the first [...]
Elsewhere on the web 25 July 2010
July 26th, 2010 · No Comments · links post
BookRepublic now open – Italy’s third ebookstore
July 25th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
A friend at MobileRead just clued me in on a new ebookstore. BookRepublic have just opened, and they have 500 Italian language ebooks in stock from Italian publishers. They expect to increase this to 1,500 ebooks fairly soon. via MobileRead UPDATE: One of my readers sent me an email with information about 2 other ebookstores [...]
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New e-reader coming to Brazil
July 25th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Grupo Positivo, a Brazilian educational technology company, have announced that they will soon be selling their first e-reader. The Positivo Alfa is based on the Benq e-reader that I’ve shown you before. It has a 6″ Sipix screen, 2GB Flash, Wifi, touchscreen, a microSD card slot, and support for Adobe DE DRM. It’s due out [...]
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