Now this is interesting. The Nook won’t be the first e-reader sold by Walmart, but it will be only the _second_ to be sold in stores (they sell about a dozen models online). I wonder what B&N did to get the shelf space? From the press release: October 21, 2010 – Barnes & Noble, Inc. [...]
Entries from October 21st, 2010
Reading desk 2.0
October 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
The Internet Archive recently moved to a new home, and when they did they inherited several antique reading desks from the previous owners. It’s a clever way to repurpose an antique, but I really hope they didn’t cut the hole in the reading surface. The device they mounted is only temporary (it will last 3, [...]
Cherrypal’s Max Seybold is so bad…
October 20th, 2010 · 4 Comments · opinion
His ex-wife sued him for fraud! A couple weeks ago I posted about how I was scammed by Max Seybold and a company called Cherrypal. On Monday one of Max’s other victims contacted me and suggested that I check the court records for Santa Clara County (that’s where the scumbag lives). Oh, boy. You’re not [...]
Dorchester Press are committing PIRACY
October 20th, 2010 · 4 Comments · publishing news
Dorchester are a small to medium size publisher who have been having financial difficulties for the past year (or so). As part of a move to stave off bankruptcy, in the past couple months they’ve reduced staff, announced plans to go digital only, and they’ve dropped a number of authors. There’s a problem with that [...]
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Blackboard’s NookStudy Building Block now available for download
October 20th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
The long promised Blackboard/NookStudy is now available for download. Students and instructors will now be able use NookStudy to exchange assignments, notes, and other study materials. Since it requires Blackboard, I won’t be able to test it. But I’ve passed the news along to a couple of ed-tech bloggers I know, and if any express [...]
Libre Digital to launch cloud based ebookstore – Skyshelf
October 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news
Earlier today I told you about Starbuck’s new webportal with news, music, etc, and how ebooks would be provided by Skyshelf, a new browser based reading app. I didn”t know anything about it then, but luckily someone updated the Skyshelf website this morning. You can’t actually do anything yet but you can read the FAQ [...]
New audiobook publisher launched – all titles DRM free
October 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment · press release
From the press release: We are pleased to announce Iambik Audio, a new kind of audiobook company, launching today with 11 literary fiction audiobooks from independent presses in the US and Canada. In the collection, Iambik is launching audiobooks of one giant of American letters, Gordon Lish (including a selection of stories read by Mr. [...]
New firmware out for the Amazon K3
October 20th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Amazon updated the download page today with links to the v3.0.3 firmware. Once again they’re calling it an “early preview” of the next firmware, and they want you to give feed back on how well it works. I don’t know what the improvements are; I’ve installed the new firmware and TBH I haven’t noticed any [...]
First enhanced fiction ebook now in iBookstore (video)
October 20th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news, video
I’ve just heard via Twitter and Liz Castro’s blog that the first fiction ebook with video has been uploaded to the iBookstore. The title is Awkward 2, and it was created by the indie publisher Awkward Press. It’s a collection of short stories, and the videos are rather odd. Here’s one:
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Starbucks’ new web portal is so 2006
October 20th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
Starbucks put out a press release today about the new web portal you can access from their stores. The Starbucks Digital Network will consist of several channels including News (USAToday, WSJ, NYT, Yahoo), Entertainment (iTunes, ebooks), and more. I’ll skip the rest of the list because I want to talk about the ebook angle. The [...]
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