Akademos, a specialist in providing digital bookstores and markets to schools, announced today that they were expanding into reading apps. The education reading app market just got that much more crowded. The new app will let Akademos’ partners access both paid and free content from a variety of sources. It will support both traditional publishers [...]
Entries from July 26th, 2011
Akademos to launch reading app w\textbooks from Flat World Knowledge
July 26th, 2011 · No Comments · software news
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Arizona Geological Survey releases first ebook
July 26th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Lee Allison, state geologist for Arizona and head of the AZGS, mentioned earlier today that the AZGS had uploaded their first book to the Kindle store. The book is A Guide to the Geology of Catalina State Park and the Western Santa Catalina Mountains, and it’s selling for $2. And as you can guess from [...]
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Treelogic Arcus 701 7″ e-reader coming soon
July 26th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
Our old friend the Skytex Primer ebook reader has shown up again under a new brand name, this time in Russia. This is a very basic ebook reader and media player, and I liked it in spite (or perhaps because of) its simplicity. It’s based on a cheap but quite usable 7″ (800×480) screen, and [...]
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Amazon silent on Kindle sales
July 26th, 2011 · 4 Comments · ebookstore news
Amazon held their quarterly conference call today, and while Jeff was bubbling over with the latest statistics (they’re doing well), he was less forthcoming on the topic of actual Kindle sales. Net sales for the company were up 51 percent inthe second quarter of 2011 –reaching $9.9 billion for the quarter. Operating income was down, [...]
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Humble Indie Bundle #3 now on sale
July 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
A new Humble Indie Bundle was launched today. I don’t usually talk about games, but this one is different. The Humble Indie Bundle is a pay-what-you-want charity effort. The games are contributed by the developers on spec (there’s no guarantee that they’ll be paid). Customers get to decide how much they want to spend and [...]
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Dolphin releases new Honeycomb specific web browser
July 26th, 2011 · No Comments · web browser
Dolphin have just released a new version of their web browser. They’re calling this one Dolphin for Pad, and it’s just a beta release. It’s been customized for large screen tablets, and it comes with all the same great features that Dolphin include in all versions of their browsers: gestures, add-ons & plug-ins, multi-touch-zoom, tabs, [...]
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Pocketbook IQ Android tablet updated
July 26th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news, pocketbook
Pocketbook posted a new firmware yesterday for its 7″ Android tablet. The IQ is a basic Android tablet running v2.0 v2.2, and it was launched late last year. This is (I believe) the 3rd update for the tablet, with the last one released back in April. According to the release notes, the new update promises [...]
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Check out the Powerpoint that violates the Geneva Convention
July 26th, 2011 · No Comments · humor
Wired got their hands on a 100 page Powerpoint presentation that was made entirely in Comic sans font. It was produced by an unnamed aide to Gen. Dunwoody, CO of the Army’s Materiel Command. Dunwoody had the misfortune of presenting this monstrosity to her boss, the Secretary of the Army.
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A Roundup post on this weekend’s iOS Reading App Massacre
July 26th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Round up
A bunch of interesting events happened this weekend, so i thought it might be best to round up the links and create a sticky post so everyone can find them on Monday. On Saturday, Kobo released a new version of their iOS app. The new app lacks the ebookstore that was built in to the [...]
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Daily Deals: Libre Pro e-reader $45, more free Vooks
July 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Daily deals
Just the one ebook reader deal for you today. It’s an oldie but it’s still a good buy. Target has the Aluratek Libre Pro on sale for $45. This is a 5″ LCD based e-reader that has 2GB Flash, a SD card slot, but no Wifi or touchscreen. This is a pretty good price for [...]
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