I know it’s late notice, but I just learned about the event this afternoon. The Rosetta Project is throwing an event tomorrow in San Francisco. They’re going to try to record 50 different languages in a single day. With over 100 languages spoken in the SF bay area, the only thing stopping them from succeeding [...]
Entries from July 29th, 2011
Record-A-Thon is tomorrow – help record 50 langauges in a single day
July 29th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
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Onswipe now out of private beta
July 29th, 2011 · No Comments · software news
Jason Baptiste just announced that Onswipe’s insanely broken tablet publishing service was now out of beta, which might explain why the publisher’s dashboard appears to have crashed. I got an account a few days ago, and right now I cannot do anything. None of the parts of the dashboard (settings, sources, design) respond when I [...]
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Do we need to put the Nook iPad app on a milk carton?
July 29th, 2011 · 3 Comments · apps, software news
You might recall from Monday about the whole reading app massacre, and how Apple forced Amazon, B&N, Kobo, et al to remove the links to their ebookstores. One of the stranger parts of this tale was the Nook iPad app. It didn’t get updated on Monday; instead it vanished from iTunes. Barnes & Noble told [...]
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Ebooks now 14% of revenues at Penguin
July 29th, 2011 · 6 Comments · publishing news, statistics
Pearson released a financial report for the first half of 2011 today, and business is good. They didn’t release all the details, but the few mentioned in the press release are impressive. FT.com subscriptions are up more than 30%, and Penguin ebook revenues set a new record for the company. Penguin reported that ebook sales [...]
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Binatone’s new e-reader is the oddest Kindle clone imaginable
July 29th, 2011 · 3 Comments · hardware news
Earlier this week I posted a brief note about the Binatone ReadMe Mobile, a Kindle clone ebook reader with a 7″ screen. At the time I didn’t have a picture, but now I do. Here it is: Yes, that is a keyboard along the length of a 7″ screen. And yes, I have seen it [...]
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Crimescape is a new imprint exclusively for Kindle Singles
July 29th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Rosetta Books, a digital and audiobook publisher, have just started experimenting with a new publishing imprint. Crimescape is going to focus on short true-crime novels, usually with lengths between 10k and 20k words. Rosetta Books launched the imprint this week with 6 titles, and they plan to add 2 new titles each month. Current titles [...]
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Unnamed 7″ Android tablet clears the FCC
July 29th, 2011 · No Comments · fcc, hardware news
This baby showed up yesterday and unlike the Skypad Alpha, I don’t know who will end up with this one. All the data is visible on this tablet, and it tells us a lot.
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Washington Post launched a News Aggregator – Trove
July 29th, 2011 · No Comments · software news
The long awaited Trove iPad app launched last week, and it looks like Zite and Flipboard have another competitor. It requires a Facebook log-in, so I won’t be using it. But the listing does look interesting. Trove promises to be a personalized news and information engine. It reportedly pulls from 10 thousand sources, including TV, [...]
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New apps offer DRM removal option for Kindle, Nook, Adobe Adept
July 29th, 2011 · 18 Comments · software news
An interesting piece of news came across my desk a few days a go, and it sounded too good to be true. But it’s not. I’ve come across a developer (iPubsoft) who is selling DRM removal apps that will work on Kindle, Nook, and Adept DRM (used on Epubs sold by everyone other than Apple [...]
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SKYPAD Alpha now Updated to Android v2.3, Clears FCC
July 28th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news
The Skytex SKYPAD Alpha was released back in late May when it was running Android v2.2, and earlier this week it got an update to v2.3. You can probably tell by the looks that this is a budget tablet, and it’s based on an 800MHz Cortex A8 CPU, with 4GB Flash storage, microSD card slot, [...]
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