I’m beginning to regret not having combined the several bits of comics news into one post. From the pres release: Luminous Books LLC, a newly formed company which will be delivering highly curated, rich-media content and periodicals to the tablet PC market, today announced that Andrew Cosby will be one of the first writer/producers to [...]
Entries from July 23rd, 2010
New comics publisher launched – will focus exclusively on tablets
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · press release
Square Enix to launch manga focused ebookstore this fall
July 23rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · press release
From the press release: Square Enix today announced that it will launch a digital manga store serving customers in North America and France in the fall of 2010. Localized electronic editions of such popular Square Enix manga series as Fullmetal Alchemist® and Soul Eater® will be made available for the PC via the Square Enix [...]
India announce $35 tablet, OLPC folks nowhere to be found
July 23rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news, Indian Tablet
Details are sparse on this tablet, but we do know that the Indian Gov’t. have been working on low cost devices for several years now. You might recall that last year they announced a low cost tablet (which never was produced, so far as I can tell). At this time we don’t know the specs, [...]
The New York Times Book Review is finally available on the Kindle
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From the Official Kindle blog: Amazon.com is excited to announce that The New York Times Book Review has now launched on Kindle as a stand-alone subscription. Each week, reviewers select 20-30 notable or important new books, including exceptional new authors. The New York Times Book Review has been one of the most influential and widely read book [...]
Free comics from Scribd
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news, free ebooks
From the Scribd blog: Today marks the beginning of Comic-Con 2010 and to celebrate Scribd has partnered with Liquid Comics and HP to offer free comics from celebrity creators Ed Burns, Guy Ritchie, Deepak Chopra, and Grant Morrison. Fans can browse the full Comic-Con Scribd collection here, read on the go using our send-to-device feature, or be [...]
Elsewhere on the Web 23 July 2010
July 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · links post
Random House throw a snit over Andrew Wylie
July 22nd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
This post is a follow up to the the posts here and here. This keeps getting better and better. Random House Worldwide just released this statement: The Wylie Agency’s decision to sell e-books exclusively to Amazon for titles which are subject to active Random House agreements undermines our longstanding commitments to and investments in our [...]
Publishers respond to Andrew Wylie
July 22nd, 2010 · 8 Comments · opinion
The big news today was when lit agent Andrew Wylie announced his own publishing imprint that would publish the digital backlist for his author clients. So far we have the response form 2 publishers; one is laughable and the other is puzzling. Random House were the first to weigh in. You might recall the rights [...]
Tags:andrew·publishers·respond·wylie
New firmware out for Pandigital Novel
July 22nd, 2010 · 15 Comments · hardware news
Pandigital uploaded a new firmware in Monday. Unfortunatley i returned my Novel before I heard about the update, so I can’t give a first hand account. But I’ve been following a discussion thread over at Slate Droid, and here are some of the changes some people reported: keyboard is more responsive and more accurate; I [...]
Tags:firmware·pandigital
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