by Eoin Purcell For some time there has been a funny dichotomy in the publishing industry worldwide. On the one hand publishers have decried the growing influence of powerful tech companies from outside the industry. Google, Amazon, Apple all fall into that category (Amazon aside from being an impressive online retailer is also an amazing [...]
Entries from February 18th, 2011
Publishers, Stop Being Craven, Forge Your Own Future
February 18th, 2011 · 2 Comments · opinion
Tags:craven·forge·future·publishers·stop
Did you know that the Amazon App Store has a blog?
February 18th, 2011 · No Comments · Amazon, app store news
I didn’t. You might recall that Amazon opened their app store to developers back in January. At about the same time, they also started a blog to pas along advice for the developers. I just found out about it yesterday. If you’re not a dev then it’s really not that important, but it does mean [...]
GMini to release 3 new epaper e-readers in Russia
February 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news, Sipix
I’ve just come across another company in Russia with plans to release their own e-reader. I’d say at this point Russia is possible the second most active e-reader market (after the US). Gmini announced 3 new e-readers this week. One will have a Sipix screen, and the other 2 will have E-ink screens. First up [...]
You’re not going to believe the crap Borders are trying to pull with gift cards
February 18th, 2011 · 3 Comments · ebookstore news, redgroup
The parent company of the Australian Borders chain (no relation to the US chain) went into administration (the Australian equivalent of bankruptcy) yesterday. Redgroup Retail then decided to go for double or nothing by pissing off the few customers they have left. They’ve changed their policy on gift cards, and the change is probably illegal. [...]
Check out my new trophy
February 18th, 2011 · 2 Comments · blog maintenance
You might recall from last month that I wrote a post about Freescale and their list of “Smart Mobile Device Pundits”. This is a list of the most popular gadget bloggers, journalists, and analysts, and it includes David Pogue, Brad Linder, Darren Murph, and many others. I’m on the list, and yesterday I got a [...]
Why I’m excited about Epub3
February 17th, 2011 · 10 Comments · ebook format
So the draft of the Epub 3 spec came out a few days ago, and it has a number oof really shiny features. It’s based on HTML5, and there’s one part of HTML5 in particular that has me drooling. It’s a tag called canvas. You can use this tag to draw content when you read [...]
LeapPad Explorer coming this summer
February 17th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
LeapFrog announced the new LeapPad Explorer, their latest educational tablet, this week.This rugged tablet is designed to survive the worst that 4 year olds can do to it, and it’s going to change the way children learn and play. It has a 5″ touch screen, speaker, and a camera, but it doesn’t appear to have [...]
Sony won’t be pulling their music from iTunes
February 17th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Last Saturday the head of Sony Australia gave an interview on how Sony was thinking about pulling their music from iTunes. Today it looks like that might not be the case. The San Francisco Chronicle asked Sony Network Entertainment COO Brandon Layden about the story from last Saturday, and he says it ain’t gonna happen: [...]
My new tablet – the Viewsonic Viewpad 100
February 17th, 2011 · 10 Comments · hardware reviews
Due to my problems with Pandigital, I found myself without a tablet but still wanting to use one. But since I’m too cheap to buy one, I dug my Viewsonic Viewpad 100 out from under the pile of junk that is my desk. This isn’t one of the new Viewpads; there was one that was [...]
Tags:tablet
Borders (Australia) go into administration
February 17th, 2011 · 3 Comments · ebookstore news, redgroup
In what I’m sure must surely be a coincidence, the owner of Borders in Australia (and part owner of Kobo Books) has filed paperwork asking for the court to appoint an administrator. RedGroup Retail, the owner of Borders (AU), Whitcoulls, and Angus & Robertson, made this request after a board meeting today.
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