Like Thanksgiving each year, Banned Books Week brings the library community together like one giant intellectual freedom loving dysfunctional family. Gathering around the proverbial communal dinner table, an unavoidable recurring conversation gets raised about what the week actually means in this day and age. The usual questions are trotted out (Can books really be banned [...]
Entries from September 29th, 2011
iBookstore Now Live in 26 More Countries
September 29th, 2011 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news
While everyone was distracted by the new Kindles yesterday, Apple quietly expanded the iBookstore. Liz Castro got a tip yesterday afternoon that all of a sudden, publishers and authors had more options for selling their ebooks in iBooks. In addition to US, UK, France, Germany, Australia, and Canada, where you could already sell an ebook, [...]
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Kindle Cloud Confirmed
September 29th, 2011 · 13 Comments · Amazon
Amazon just gave you another reason to rush out and buy a new Kindle. I don’t usually like to rehash old news on this blog but today I will make an exception. A reader asked for clarification on how Amazon will go about backing up your personal documents. Since I was the first to find [...]
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Bloomberg Has a Functioning Time Machine
September 29th, 2011 · 5 Comments · humor
One of my life goals is to prove that time travel is possible, and today Bloomberg helped me get one step closer to completing that goal. There’s an interesting footnote to today’s Amazon event. I’m sure you know that Amazon launched the Kindle Fire and 3 Kindle ebook readers. The event didn’t begin until 10 [...]
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New Promo Video from E-ink
September 28th, 2011 · 2 Comments · video
I’ve just come across this new video from E-ink. It doesn’t show anything groundbreaking but I thought it was a really fun use of the technology. Click play. It’s worth the 20 or so seconds you will spend watching it.
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Amazon Overturned the E-reader Apple Cart
September 28th, 2011 · 25 Comments · hardware news
It’s a good thing I was sitting down at the press conference today, because with all the shocking news that Amazon handed out you could have knocked me over with a feather. First and foremost, there have been a couple changes to their current models. Unlike in the past, they’ re not going away. All [...]
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Amazon’s Kindle Price Punking
September 28th, 2011 · 9 Comments · opinion
All you’ll hear is “$79 Kindle!” “$99 Kindle!” I believed it too. Jeff Bezos punked all of us. Here’s a key slide from the announcement: Source What’s missing in that list?
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Blog Update
September 28th, 2011 · 4 Comments · blog maintenance
Hey folks. This trip to NYC was only a day trip, so I’m heading back home today. I’m on an uncomfortable bus at the moment, and since it is stopping me from getting any real work done I decided to post an update on my plans. I plan to get a couple major post up [...]
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The Kindle Fire just Killed Off the Android Tablet Market
September 28th, 2011 · 40 Comments · hardware news
Amazon debuted quite a few devices today but none was more impressive than the Kindle Fire. This is a 7″ Android tablet running a custom home screen on top of Gingerbread. It’s using a dual core 1GHz Texas Instruments OMAPs CPU with Wifi, 8GB Flash storage, unlimited storage ion Amazon’s servers, but no camera or [...]
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At the Amazon Kindle Fire Launch Event
September 28th, 2011 · 24 Comments · conferences & trade shows
So I’m sitting on someone’s doorstep a few doors down from 508 W 37th ST. I thought you might be interested in 2 photos of the good-sized tent that Amazon have sitting out front. This doesn’t look like a terribly large venue (it has the feel of a converted storefront), but then again I have [...]
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