Back in August of last year I wrote a post about a lawsuit against the Chinese ebook reader maker Hanvon. They were being sued by the Chung Hwa (Zhonghua) Book Company over whether who exactly owned the rights to some ebooks Hanvon had been selling. The case had originally been filed in October 2009, and [...]
Entries from June 21st, 2011
Kobo’s new retail partner has a broken website
June 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Kobo announced this morning that they’ve added a new retail partner, this time in the Caribbean. The Nigel R Khan Bookseller Chain has 9 stores on the islands of Trinidad and Tobago, where they will be selling the Kobo Wifi. The Kobo Touch wasn’t mentioned nor was the price of the Kobo Wifi, both of [...]
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Weird Al’s ebook app is a fun read
June 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · software reviews
Did you know that the satirical singer Weird Al Yankovic wrote a children’s book? I didn’t, at least not until the app came out last week. The book is titled When I Grow Up. It’s a collection of visual jokes based on absurd professions (milking giraffes, for example). A lot of the scenes are written [...]
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EbookSticks still going strong in the Netherlands
June 21st, 2011 · 4 Comments · ebookstore news
Last year I came across a Dutch company that was selling ebooks on Flash Drives. I didn’t think much of the idea, and I didn’t think it would last. Apparently I was wrong. 25 thousand of these things have been sold over the past year. While that’s not a vast number, it’s still decent. This [...]
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Swiss ebookstore Ex Libris now being blackmailed over Agency pricing
June 21st, 2011 · 7 Comments · ebookstore news
If you follow publishing news then you might know that there’s a fix price law in Germany for book (and ebooks). You might also know that Switzerland doesn’t have such a law, much to the dismay of German publishers. Ex Libris are a Swiss online retailer. They sell books, music, gadgets, etc, and they also [...]
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New Nook clone shows up from no where
June 21st, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
The Nook might be discontinued, and the Spring Design Alex is long dead, but that’s not going to stop the copycats. The ebook reader at right is an unnamed Alex clone running Android. it has a 6″ E-ink screen and a 3.6″ (480×272) capacitive touchscreen. I’m not sure who made it (though the menu suggests [...]
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JSMad is a Javascript based MP3 decoder
June 20th, 2011 · No Comments · software news
Today I came across a neat little MP3 player app which is based in Javascript. JSMad is a Javascript library that well let you embed a bit of code in a webpage and play an embedded MP3. It doesn’t work in all browsers, but it is rather cool. The source code is also available, in [...]
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Kansas Library Consortium now leaving OverDrive & taking their ebooks with them
June 20th, 2011 · 7 Comments · digital library
Earlier today I posted over on eBookNewser about 3M Cloud Library. 3M will be demoing their new system at the ALA conference later this week, and today they announced that they’d signed a couple new publishers. They also announced that the new Cloud Library would go into beta this summer. One of their beta partners [...]
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Keepin’ it real – ebook style (comic)
June 20th, 2011 · 5 Comments · humor
This comic was unfortunately sent to me without attribution. All I got was a link. Does anyone know who drew it? This is getting passed around Twitter today, and finally I have found the source. It’s a webcomic called Poorly Drawn Lines. The rest of the comic follows.
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Icarus Bluefire G2 Android tablet looks awfully familiar
June 20th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
Ereaders.nl have turned up a new Android tablet today from the Dutch gadget company Icarus. The Bluefire G2 is running Android v2.3 on a 1.2MHz CPU with a 7″ (800 x 480) capacitive touchscreen, 4GB Flash, microSD card slot, Wifi, HDMI out, and a 2MP camera. It also has Android Market, and Icarus have promised [...]
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