I got an email yesterday from the developer of a new website that’s dedicated to ebook maps. There are around 200 maps on Ebookmaps.com now and they cover cities all over the globe. The maps are drawn from the Open Streetmap Project, and they”re released under a CC license. The ebooks are available in Mobi [...]
Entries from June 26th, 2011
How to get Wired on the iPad for $4 a year
June 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment · apps
Right now you can get a 1 year subscription to Wired Magazine for only $3.99 a year. If you have an iPad or you’re thinking about getting one then you would go get it immediately. Wired Magazine updated their iPad app a few weeks back. The app is still free, of course, and you can [...]
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The Internet Archive’s Open Library program now supports over 100 libraries in 6 countries
June 26th, 2011 · No Comments · digital library
Back in february of this year the Internet Archive started a new partnership with a select group of libraries. These several dozen libraries across the US worked with the IA to provide in-library access to the Open Library, the IA’s new, cooperative 100,000+ eBook lending collection. Yesterday the IA announced that they’d expanded to include [...]
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New library ebook service launched – Freading
June 25th, 2011 · 9 Comments · digital library
Library Ideas launched a new ebook service for libraries Friday at the ALA Conference in New Orleans. Freading is a pay-per-use system, and it’s launching with 20 thousand titles from over a dozen publishers. Unlike OverDrive or Axis 360, Freading allows for an unlimited number of simultaneous users, but it also charges between 50 cents [...]
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Most original use of iPhone tracking data
June 25th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Do you recall the ruckus a couple months ago over Apple collecting location data? Someone has taken those lemons and made lemonade. James Bridle extracted the location data from his iPhone and turned it into a book of maps. You can buy it on Lulu for £100.
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A new use for air fresheners (video)
June 25th, 2011 · 1 Comment · humor
Ask yourself this: What’s the one place everyone reads? The Russian bookstore chain 100,000 Books realized one day that everyone reads on the toilet. And when there’s no book, magazine, or newspaper available, people have been known to read what ever they can get their hands on – even the air freshener. I’d like to [...]
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New Sony Dash shows up on FCC website
June 24th, 2011 · 3 Comments · hardware news
The rumor of the new Sony Readers has been pressing on me this week, and tonight I finally did an item by item search of the FCC database. I looked at everything Sony submitted in the past couple months, but I didn’t find an ebook reader (or even a hint of one). But I did [...]
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Harlequin raising digital royalty rates
June 24th, 2011 · No Comments · publishing news
Richard Curtis of e-reads has just posted a pair of letters that Harlequin sent out today to all of their authors. Harlequin announced that they would now pay authors a higher royalty rate for all ebooks sold in the US and Canada in English. Here are the key sections of the letters:
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BooksV ebookstore now open in Japan
June 24th, 2011 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news
Fujitsu officially opened their new ebookstore on Wednesday, They’re calling BooksV Japan’s largest ebookstore, and with 300k articles (available through magazines, research reports, and statistical reports) it might be. Content is drawn from a partnership with Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (DNP) and DNP’s affiliate, MobileBook.jp Inc. It’s spread across a number of genres from [...]
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Baker & Taylor to launch new library service, no mention of library or publisher partners
June 24th, 2011 · 1 Comment · digital library
Overdrive and 3M got a new competitor today when Baker & Taylor announced their new Axis 360 library service. Curiously enough, I can’t see what this service offers that OverDrive’s service does not. On my first read-though, I thought that you could check out the library ebooks directly from the device. But it doesn’t actually [...]
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