A couple days ago Google started censoring the suggested search terms in their search engine. Do you know how you can type a few letters and Google will guess at words you’re about to type? Google will no longer suggest words like bittorrent, rapidshare, utorrent, etc. This censorship inspired me to pull out my notes [...]
Entries from January 28th, 2011
Txtr have relaunched their website
January 28th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
In the wake of the death of the txtr reader, Txtr the company have redisgned and relaunched their website. They’re focused now on the software platform, which consists of reading apps for iOS and Android as well as the website. They’ve made a number of changes, including improvements to the UI, Faceebook integration, and restructuring [...]
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Wexler just announced a clone of the Sony Pocket Edition
January 28th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
Last week Wexler announced a new e-reader. The e5001 has a 5″ E-ink screen, micro SD card slot, 4GB Flash, MP3player, but no touchscreen or Wifi. I can’t tell if it supports DRM, but it does have decent format support (TXT, RFT, PDF, DOC, CHM, HTM, HTML, EPUB, FB2). It’s available now with a retail [...]
QuarkXPress to make iOS apps
January 28th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Quark will be launching the iPad Publishing Service, a new extension for QuarkXPress 8.5, next month. From the press release: Quark announced today a new service that enables QuarkXPress® 8.5 users to publish QuarkXPress content to the iPad. With its iPad Publishing Service for QuarkXPress, Quark will configure a starter iPad app with the customer’s [...]
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Man Booker Prize judges to go digital this year
January 28th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The Age are reporting that this year’s panel of judges for the Man Booker literature award won’t have to cope with the vast stack of paper books as they did last year. The 2011 Prize will be the first where competitors are requested to submit a digital copy as well as the paper books.
Comixology to launch affiliate program
January 27th, 2011 · No Comments · press release
Comixology announced a new affiliate program today. their retail partners can now sell digital comics from Comixology on their respective store website. All comics bought through the affiliate program will work on any part of the Comixology platform, including the browser, iOS, and Android apps. This is potentially a great idea, but to really make [...]
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Borders secured $550 million in new financing
January 27th, 2011 · 2 Comments · press release
Borders just announced that they have a promise of $550m from GE credit. Their plan is to use this money to restructure and basically not have to go bankrupt. We already knew about this financing, but what we didn’t know was the conditions GE Capital attached. There are several conditions such as store closure, etc, [...]
Amazon sold more ebooks last year than paperbacks
January 27th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
Amazon released their Q4 statement today, and it was a doozy. Amazon sold 115 ebooks last year for every 100 paperbacks. Ad they sold 3 times as many ebooks as they did hardbacks. What’s even better is that those numbers cover all of 2010, not just this last quarter. Amazon are also reporting that the [...]
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Digital textbooks will save you money – Hah
January 27th, 2011 · 5 Comments · opinion
I was playing around with a textbook search engine today and I kept seeing one of my theories about digital textbooks being proved over and over. I’m sure Book.ly have been around for a while, but I only just heard about it when they spammed my old college email address. Normally I delete spam like [...]
Libre Office 3.3 now available for download
January 27th, 2011 · No Comments · software news
Earlier this week The Document Foundation announced the first stable release of Libre Office. As you might recall, TDF started as a spin off of Open Office last year when a number of developers, who could no longer comfortably work with Sun, left the OO project to form TDF. Libre Office has since picked up [...]
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