First Borders stopped payments in late December, and now they’re stopping payments in late January. This is truly the beginning of the end. In case you’re wondering, no I’m not enjoying the coming demise of Borders. This is going to leave a large swath of the country without a large bookstore. That is a very [...]
Entries from January 30th, 2011
Sunbook now shipping with a Pixel Qi screen
January 30th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news
Clover Systems are now selling the first commercial netbook with a Pixel Qi screen. It’s based on an Intel Atom 1.66GHz CPU with 1GB RAM, 250GB hard disk, Wifi, a SD card slot, webcam, speakers and a 10.1″ Pixel Qi screen. It’s running Win7, which is almost enough to make me avoid it. This netbook [...]
Asus DR-900 now available in Russia
January 30th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news, Sipix
Asus’ new 9″ e-reader was unveiled in Russia this week, making it the 3rd large screen e-reader in the country. It’s based on a Sipix screen and it has the same specs as when it was released in Taiwan: Wifi, 2GB Flash, microSD card slot, speakers, and a headphone jack. Battery life is 4 days [...]
Books as Art: Isaac Salazar
January 29th, 2011 · No Comments · books as art
You might have seen this picture before (or one like it). I’ve been seeing them for about 6 or 7 months now, but it was only last week that I stumbled across the artist. This is the work of Isaac Salazar, a accountant living in the southwestern US. You can find more pictures on his [...]
Waterstone’s now following in Borders footsteps
January 29th, 2011 · 3 Comments · ebookstore news
There’s been an interesting story developing for the past month or so that I’ve been watching, but it wasn’t until yesterday that enough pieces came together that I felt I had to post the story. Late yesterday the UK bookstore chain Waterstone’s reported that they were cutting initial orders by 20%. They had too much [...]
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Fnac have sold 12k FnacBook since November
January 29th, 2011 · 5 Comments · hardware rumors
I came across this interesting little tidbit the other day. Fnac are a French retail chain, and back in November they started selling their own e-reader (alongside the ones they already carried). According to the magazine Challenges, Fnac have sold 12 thousand of the FnacBook since November. That’s really not much, is it? I tried [...]
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NookColor hacked, now runs Honycomb
January 28th, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news
A couple days ago Google released the SDK for Android 3.0. Today Honeycomb has been ported to NOOKcolor. Wow, what took so long? (kidding) Seriously, the port is still in the early stages, and it’s still running slow. The dev behind it is planning on working on graphics acceleration to improve performance over the weekend. [...]
Calibre 0.7.43 now available – adds features, fixes bugs, also makes julienne fries
January 28th, 2011 · 4 Comments · software news
Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management app that was developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a bunchaton of features, including: ebook conversion library management e-reader support news downloading content server (for accessing your library over the web) Calibre
Cybook Orizon update available
January 28th, 2011 · No Comments · firmware update
Bookeen have just announced a new firmware update for the Cybook Orizon. This update brings some impressive improvements to this 6″ e-reader. The reading app now has the option of bookmarks, highlights, and notes. The network utility was also improved and it will now connect automatically to known networks. Finally, the browser also got a [...]
Aquafadas to release digital comic tool
January 28th, 2011 · No Comments · press release
Aquafadas will soon release Comic Composer,their digital comic programming tool. This isn’t a graphics tool, though I’m sure it has those functions. One key detail that separates digital comics from paper is that digital comics aren’t just page images. There are now at least a couple formats for digital comics that include code that can [...]
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