The Taipei Times are reproting that Hanvon how have a user base with over 1 million users. Hanvon Technology, China’s largest e-reader brand, yesterday said it has accumulated more than 1 million users to date after it made a foray into the market segment in mid-2008. Is that all they’ve managed to sell in a [...]
Entries from December 27th, 2010
EC Media to release iPad app
December 27th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
India’s home grown e-reader company have announced a new reading app, MagsonWink. They’re launching it this week at the Delhi Book Fair, and it will be available for iPad and Android. (Why not the iPhone? I don’t know.) MagsonWink will have 25 Indian magazine titles available on launch, and EC Media expect to expand this [...]
iFlow reader takes reading down the wrong path
December 27th, 2010 · 8 Comments · software reviews
iFlow Reader is getting a lot of attention today. This is a new reading app for iOS, with different versions for iPhone and iPad. While it comes with a good set of reading options, iFlow’s one big pitch point is that it abandons page turns in favor of scrolling. This is so not a good [...]
Books as Art: Laura Cahill
December 27th, 2010 · No Comments · books as art
Next on my series on Books as Art is a UK based designer by the name of Laura Cahill. She’s recently started working in the medium of old books and she’s been turning them into vases, reading lamps, and furniture. If you visit her site then make sure to look at the Book vases she’s [...]
Amazon severing final ties between Mobipocket and the Kindle Store
December 27th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Steve Weber, editor of the Plug your Book blog, got this email from Amazon a few days ago. Soon, publishing for distribution in the Kindle Store will no longer be available through Mobipocket.com. Publishing and selling in the Mobipocket.com store and other Mobipocket partner retailers will not be affected, but the Digital Text Platform (DTP) [...]
Amazon K3 best selling product in Amazon’s history
December 27th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
But what does that actually mean? From the press release: Amazon.com today announced that the third-generation Kindle is now the bestselling product in Amazon’s history, eclipsing “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7).” The company also announced that on its peak day, Nov. 29, customers ordered more than 13.7 million items worldwide across all [...]
Some light reading for the weekend
December 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
This photo popped up on Reddit today. You’re looking at an original reference doc for the Saturn V. It was originally published for the Apollo Lunar Program. Do you see the signature? That’s Werner von Braun. Do you have any idea how much that thing’s worth?!?
B&N’s Nook servers are down
December 26th, 2010 · 9 Comments · hardware news
Interesting story today. B&N didn’t bother to keep track how many Nooks they sold this holiday season. The B&N servers that are supposed to support downloading ebooks and Nook activation crashed on Christmas, and the servers are still down.
I’m getting a Kobo Wifi
December 26th, 2010 · 4 Comments · hardware news
Kobo are running a contest this week on their website. You can enter once each day and try to win any number of prized from discount coupons and gift cards all the way up to a Kobo Wifi. you can find the contest here. I entered the contest today and much to my surprise I [...]
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