RIM are throwing a developers conference right this week for the Blackberry. It just kicked off in San Francisco today. Apparently Kobo are at the conference and they just accidentally announced their new social networking features. Here’s the blog post (they didn’t take it down quite fast enough):
Entries from September 27th, 2010
Kobo going social with Blackberry Messenger
September 27th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news, kobo, software news
Tags:blackberry·kobo·messenger·social
Your Kindle has been eaten by a Grue
September 27th, 2010 · 5 Comments · apps & games, kindle app
by Chris Walters If you’re tired of Minesweeper, don’t like the free word games Shuffled Row and Every Word, and don’t want to pay $5 for the new Scrabble game, then how about old-school text adventures? On Friday, Kindle fan E. Yagi announced on Amazon’s customer discussion pages a new website, kindlequest.com, that presents 19 [...]
HP Exec Bradley: WebOS won’t be licensed
September 27th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news
TechCrunch just posted a summary of an interview with Todd Bradley, the Executive VP for the Personal Systems Group. There are a number of interesting details in the article, but this is what caught my eye: The strategy with webOS is not just the OS but it’s also to have a consistent interface from phones [...]
Kno dual-screen tablet to drop second screen
September 27th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Know issued a press release today announcing a new model for their textbook platform. They plan to offer a single screen 14″ tablet alongside the dual screen Kno. (They really need to come up with some product names.) My guess is that they finally realized the market for a dual screen tablet that weighs 6 [...]
Tags:drop·dualscreen·kno·screen·tablet
Toshiba Bookplace to launch tomorrow – get your $80 in free ebooks
September 27th, 2010 · 4 Comments · ebookstore news
I just got an email from Toshiba reminding me that the Toshiba Bookplace website will be open tomorrow. As part of the launch Toshiba will be giving away 4 ebooks: History’s Greatest Lies: The Startling Truths Behind World Events our History Books Got Wrong – William Weir (Fair Winds Press) I Know an Old Teacher [...]
Safari Books Online now on iPhone, Android
September 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · press release
Safari Books have just announced the launch of a new mobile friendly site. From the press release: Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), the leading on-demand digital library for technology, digital media and business professionals, today achieved another milestone in its mobile device strategy – the seamless extension of its popular portal features to mobile devices. Subscribers [...]
David Morrell on the Current State of Print Publishing: “This Is Nuts”
September 27th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
by Evil Wylie David Morrell (the creator of Rambo and a damn good thriller writer) recently signed an exclusive deal with Amazon to release 10 of his books as Kindle e-books (nine of which are backlist). Is he a trailblazer, or has he signed a deal with THE DEVIL? Here are his thoughts on the [...]
Today’s Quote Of Book Doom
September 27th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
Business owners slash prices, offer creative discounts to keep customers buying during recession The venerable Strand Book Store is combating the Kindle – with candy. … “We’re selling five times as much candy as we did ‘register books’. Candy is an impulse buy.” The Strand bookstore in New York City removes books to sell candy. [...]
Sharp to launch ebookstore in Japan
September 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news, hardware news, video
Sharp put out a press release today on the XMDF format e-reader we saw a couple months ago. I’ve combed through it (and the related website), and here are the high points. Sharp finally listed the specs for the Galapagos e-readers. One will be based on a 5.5″ LCD screen (1024×600 resolution), and the other [...]
Tags:ebookstore·japan·launch·sharp
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