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Entries from July 24th, 2010
Borders to delay “area-e” until September
July 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
Twice.com are reporting that Borders aren’t planning to have the area-e departments open in most stores until September. Previously Borders had scheduled August for the grand opening. They are also planning to have the Kobo e-reader in all stores by the end of July. (That may sound like a joke but it isn’t.) I stopped [...]
Overdrive announced the wrong library donation system
July 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · opinion
I missed this announcement when it came around the first time, but it’s _so_ the wrong system that I decided to post on it 2 weeks after the fact. Here’s what they announced: OverDrive has created LibraryBIN (Buy It Now), an online digital bookstore offering a comprehensive selection of eBooks for instant purchase and download. [...]
More details on India’s $35 tablet
July 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Charbax of Armdevices.net found what might be the hardware developer for the $35 tablet I reported on this morning.He was at the Freescale Technology Forum last month when he met a Bangalore based company called AllGo Systems. Here is Charbax’s bill of materials for the AllGo tablet: ARM9 Processor: $5 (Freescale i.MX233) Memory: $3 WiFi [...]
BBC launch UK version of iPad app
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · ipad app
The really odd thing about this story is the the international version has been out for at least a couple months now. From the Beeb: A BBC News app for the iPhone and iPad has been launched in the UK, the BBC has announced. The free-to-download apps for Apple products were originally due to be [...]
A couple of my ebooks are on the NASA website
July 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
Last summer I decided to start making ebooks. It wasn’t a hobby so much as it was simply a good reason to teach myself HTML+CSS. One of my sources for content was the NASA’s historical website. They’ve been printing books for at least 50 years now, and in mid to late 1990′s most of the [...]
Papers update adds PDF annotation
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · ipad app, iPhone app
This $15 app just got an update with an impressive set of new features. With Papers 1.8 you can now highlight and add notes to your PDF. This update also enables you to open PDF files in Papers from other applications (such as Mail and Safari). Library improvements were also added. You can now delete [...]
Tags:adds·annotation·papers·pdf·update
Free PDF – Reading on the OLPC laptop
July 23rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · free ebooks
I came across a useful ebook the other day. It’s titled Reading and Sugar, and it’s by James Simmons (I think). Sorry for being vague; I’ve had a number of crashes this week and one crash took my sources with it. But I did find this on the IAEP mailing list. I’d really be grateful [...]
Craze for ebooks yet to catch on in India
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Here’s another good background article on ebooks. I already knew most of the details, but this article gave me a good feel for the ebook market there. From the article: Globally, on Amazon.com, the sales of ebooks may have outstripped the sales of hardcover books over the past three months. However, this does not appear [...]
E-books attracting more Turkish readers
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Here’s a good overview of ebooks in Turkey. It had several details that were new to me. From the article: Interest in e-books, which received only lukewarm support from publishers when they first emerged, is increasing despite worries about negative effects on printed books. Fifty Turkish publishing houses are now producing e-books, while top names [...]
Tags:attracting·ebooks·readers·turkish
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