Matt Blind runs a bookstore for one of the major chains here in the US. Occasionally he picks up a keyboard and gives us an inside view of bookselling. — Retail pays the rent, but isn’t what draws people into the store. For every single diehard reader that still buys books, there are: 2 homeless [...]
Entries from February 21st, 2011
Dell Inspiron Duo on sale for $400 – I think I’ll pass
February 21st, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news
The Microsoft Store have Dell’s new convertible tablet on sale right now for $150 off retail. Curiously enough, Dell are still selling it for $550. The Duo is based on a 10″ touchscreen, and it’s running Windows 7 on a dual core 1.5GHz Atom CPU with 2GB Ram, a 1.3MP camera, SD card slot, Wifi, [...]
LeVar Burton reads at the KC Public Library
February 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · video
lat this past week, LeVar Burton, former host of Reading Rainbow, was in Kansas City. He took a few minutes one day to read Shel Silverstein at a public library. I only have a clip to show you, unfortunately. But I grew up on Reading Rainbow, so it’s neat none the less.
Kno getting out of the tablet business?
February 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware rumors, opinion
There’s a rumor going around today that Kno, makers of a dual screen educational tablet, is planning to get out of the tablet business and focus solely on software. No, wait. I was wrong. They’ve never actually shipped tablets so I don’t think they’re really in the tablet business. But the rumor is going around, [...]
Why you shouldn’t download a coloring ebook
February 20th, 2011 · No Comments · humor, Uncategorized
There was an e-reader in a Sunday comic strip last week, and no one noticed (or maybe this strip isn’t that widely read). The strip in question is called Brewster Rockit. It’s a satirical take on SF, technology, and is usually pretty funny. via GoComics.com, Wikipedia
Archos 70b e-reader has been hacked
February 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware reviews
Over the past week I’ve found a set of photos of the new Archos e-reader. I also found an 11 minute long hands on video on Youtube. The photos and the video show the same hardware, but they also show radically different software. The photos were posted by Blogeee, a French gadget blog, and they [...]
An analysis of EPUB3 (and, uh, a bit more)
February 20th, 2011 · 9 Comments · opinion
by Strahinja Markovic Editor’s Note: This editorial was written by the developer of Sigil, an open source Epub editor. His experience has given him an understanding of the Epub spec that few share. He’s passionate about his work, and that passion comes out in this post. The language is rather graphic. —- The IDPF published [...]
REDGroup – A tale of hubris and the end of the good times
February 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · opinion, redgroup
by Darryl Adams I originally posted this over in the comments of the Delimiter REDGroup article. I think it answers most of what went wrong, but I do admit some of the conclusions I extrapolated from the data. My research on REDGroup is leading to me to think that it was the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) [...]
Amazon will never monopolize the ebook market
February 18th, 2011 · 11 Comments · opinion
I’ve been hearing a recurrent theme for some time now about Amazon and their market share. There are a lot of people concerned that if Amazon ever got a big enough chunk of the ebook market, it would be able to charge whatever it wanted, and could demand whatever term it wanted from publishers. In [...]
Tags:Amazon·ebook·market·monopolize
An Inside view of Borders
February 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
I know I’m posting a lot about Borders today, and I’ll try not to over do it. But this one is interesting. A blog over on LiveJournal just came across my inbox today. It’s written by a couple of people who work at Borders, and at least one will be laid off when the store [...]
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