Huawei unveiled their latest gadget today. Does anyone want to take bets on how long before this shows up at the FCC?
Entries from June 20th, 2011
Dog-eared Kindle could be Amazon’s next great innovation
June 20th, 2011 · 3 Comments · humor
The satirical website NewsBiscuit has uncovered details on the next generation of the Amazon Kindle, currently named the Kindle DE. We all know someone who loves the physical features of paper books, right? Well, that’s the person that Amazon designed the Kindle DE for. This model departs from the crisp, clean lines of the K3 [...]
Hulu are now the first to comply with Apple’s new app rules
June 20th, 2011 · No Comments · app store news, Apple
Apple announced a new set of app rules a few weeks ago, and now we have the first content provider to fall in line. That was quick. Actually, Hulu is the second company to comply. The first was bol.com, and their reading app was released in back in March. Hulu updated their Hulu Plus iOS [...]
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How Amazon Could Improve Discoverability
June 20th, 2011 · 2 Comments · opinion
Discoverability is one of the biggest issues facing e-retailers. How do the right customers know when a new product they might be interested in has arrived? Amazon knows I buy a lot of books on sports and WWII. Although I get emails from them every day I don’t think they’re doing enough to help me [...]
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Consumer reports now talking about a new Sony Reader coming this month
June 20th, 2011 · 14 Comments · hardware rumors
I got a tweet this morning from a friend. He’d read CR‘s recent review of the Nook Touch and he was curious about a rumor tucked into the end of the article. We’re waiting to receive and test at least one other e-book reader: the Kobo eReader Touch, which also has a Pearl E Ink [...]
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The Business of Books & Publishing: Changing the Pattern
June 20th, 2011 · 5 Comments · opinion
We see a lot of new ebooks being released that are riddled with editorial and formatting problems. From the publisher’s side, the problem is that to proofread ebooks after conversion, especially after OCR (scanning) conversion, is expensive — contrary to what the naysayers believe, it is not a job for a high school graduate who thinks [...]
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E-Reads have come to their senses on ebook prices
June 19th, 2011 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news
The digital backlist distributor e-reads announced a new pricing plan last night. Richard Curtis, CEO of e-reads, wrote in a post that the new standard prices for ebooks would now start at around $3, nd go up from there. Nonfiction titles, previously priced at $12.99 and up, would now cost less than $9.99. This is [...]
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Pariah Burke is a slimy pirate
June 19th, 2011 · 11 Comments · piracy
I’ve recently noticed that a particular aggregator blog has stepped over the line into piracy. When I first came across WorkFlow:Epub last year, the site copied excerpts of content posted elsewhere. It was run by a man named Pariah Burke, and I discovered it because I was being copied. I didn’t really mind, except for [...]
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NY Post now pursuing stupidest paywall policy ever
June 19th, 2011 · 2 Comments · opinion
The screen shot below is from my iPad. That is what i see when use Safari to visit www.NYPost.com. There’s no articles, pictures, or any type of content. All I can see is the ad for the NYPost’s iPad app.
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Look at what Irex have been doing lately (video)
June 19th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news, video
A couple new videos were posted to Youtube yesterday from an employee of IRX Innovations. They haven’t announced any product plans, but the videos give us a few hints about what they’re thinking. The first video shows a grayscale Sipix screen with 6fps video running on it. The second video is a closeup of the [...]
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