Amazon UK now offering free shipping to India, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa – Amazon UK will now cover the shipping cost of any order over £25. The offer is good until 15 May. This little bit of news caught my eye last night. It’s really not all that important (unless it applies to [...]
Entries from February 17th, 2011
My local Borders store isn’t closing, is yours? (map)
February 16th, 2011 · 12 Comments · ebookstore news
At least, not yet. I’ve come across a scanned list of the 200+ stores Borders will be closing under the bankruptcy plan. It was compiled on Monday by Hilco and submitted as part of the bankruptcy filing. Just for my own curiosity, I made a Google Map with most of the closing stores on it. [...]
Yet another site for ebook lending – Lendle
February 16th, 2011 · No Comments · digital library
I’ve just read in The Guardian about another ebook lending site, Lendle. Unfortunately the site appears to be down at the moment, so I can’t tell you anything about it. But the guardian had this to say: Just days after its launch, Lendle now has 1,045 ebooks listed as available to borrow. Users can also [...]
Samsung to open new R&D Center in the Netherlands
February 16th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
Do you recall the story I broke last month about Samsung buying Liquavista? Well, today Samsung officially announced the opening of their new R&D Center in the Netherlands which will be focused on the work already started by Liquavista. On February 15, 2011, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. held the opening ceremony of the Samsung LCD [...]
Tags:center·netherlands·open·samsung
US Ebook sales up in December
February 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
The AAP have released the sales figrues for the US book amrket for 2010, as well as specific data on Sales in December2010. Sales in November were around $47 million, so the small difference between November and December matches last year’s pattern, which saw sales of $18.3m and $18.7m in November and December, respectively. E-books [...]
Samsung Galaxy S 5″ Wifi & why I like smaller screens
February 16th, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news, opinion
Yesterday I posted that when it comes to tablets I liked 5″ and 9″ screens more than I liked 7″ screens. This Galaxy S is an example of why. Samsung showed off this 5″ tablet at MWC this week. It has a 1GHz Hummingbird processor, a 800 x 480-resolution display, a 5MP camera (with a [...]
I’m joining the chorus on why The Daily will fail
February 16th, 2011 · 2 Comments · opinion
One of my favorite bloggers just got hired to write a twice weekly advice column for The Daily. While I’m happy for her success, she is the epitome of why The Daily will fail. The blog is called CokeTalk. It’s an advice blog run anonymously by a female version of Lenny Bruce. If that’s too [...]
Overdrive iOS app adds support for iPad
February 16th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The latest version of the Overdrive Media Console is now available in iTunes, and the long awaited iPad app is now available. Whether users are browsing the OverDrive Media Console library, reading an Epub, or listening to an audiobook, they’ll now be able to use the full iPad screen utilized. Also, the iPhone and iPod [...]
Tags:overdrive
Kobo app now out for the BlackBerry
February 15th, 2011 · 4 Comments · software news
Update: Apparently I misread the Kobo blog post, because based on the reviews this app has been available since at least March 2010. The only thing new is that another BlackBerry, the Torch, is now supported. Kobo just announced that their latest app was now available in the BlackBerry App Store. The Kobo BB app [...]
Tags:app·blackberry·kobo
Books as Art: Maria Fischer
February 15th, 2011 · No Comments · books as art
This particular piece has made the rounds of the blogs over the past few days, so you might have seen it already. But most of the blogs I read got it wrong. Most of the descriptions referred to this as an example of analog hyperlinking, but that’s not really what Maria Fischer was trying to [...]
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