Today is 15 September, and that means that Google and the plaintiffs in the Google Books case are back in front of Judge Denny Chin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Today was the deadline he set for all parties to agree on a settlement. Well, they didn’t. As you could [...]
Entries from September 15th, 2011
“Progress is Being Made” on the Google Books Settlement
September 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Google Books
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Contest: Win An E-ink Snowglobe on Twitter
September 15th, 2011 · 4 Comments · contest
A short time ago I posted a picture of my latest freebie, and I’m going to be giving it away in a contest. Update: The contest is closed. The winners will be announced momentarily.
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Kindle Special Offers to get Groupon-style Deals
September 15th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Amazon announced Thursday that it was expanding the deals offered by the Kindle Special Offers to include location specific opportunities. Starting in NYC, the Kindeal Wifi and the Kindeal 3G will soon receive new offers via AmazonLocal, Amazon’s newly launched Groupon competitor. Upcoming AmazonLocal deals for NYC Kindle owners in Manhattan and Brooklyn include: $7 [...]
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Levar Burton to Relaunch Reading Rainbow as Enhanced Ebook Apps
September 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments · apps
Actor and author Levar Burton, star of the much loved show Reading Rainbow, has just gone public with his plans to launch a new company. He has partnered on the project with Buffalo’s WNED-TV, rights-holder to the 1983-2006 PBS series Reading Rainbow. He’s raised $3 million in capital for the new venture, which is going to [...]
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Sharp toEnd Production of the Galapagos E-readers
September 15th, 2011 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Sharp just announced that they were killing the 5.5″ and 10.8″ Galapagos ebook readers. Sharp launched these gadgets last fall in Japan and had also planned to launch them in the US, although there is no sign that any were ever sold, Sharp will stop accepting orders for the tablets at the end of the [...]
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Meet the World’s One and Only 10″ E-ink E-reader – A51
September 14th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Blast from the Past
I was working on the solar powered ebook reader post earlier and I came across a fascinating historical artifact. Every so often I like to post on an antique ebook reader, and today I can finally post about one that uses an E-ink screen. This is a 10″ E-ink prototype that was developed in 2005 [...]
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One of HaithiTrust’s Orphan Works is Secretly a Lost Prince
September 14th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
A few days back I brought you the news that the Author’s Guild had formed an alliance with 2 of their conterparts in order to sue the HaithiTrust over its book digitization project. One of the AG’s complaints that I didn’t realize was quite so important was the status of HaithiTrust’s orphan works. This is a [...]
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New Finnish-Chinese Project Aims to Develop Solar Powered E-reader
September 14th, 2011 · 2 Comments · hardware news
Earlier today I showed you how to read under 300 feet of water. Now let me show you how to read on a distant mountain top. Two Finnish universities and a Shanghai based reaserch group have formed a partnership last month. They plan to cooperate in the development of a new class of gadgets designed [...]
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Heads Up: HP TouchPads MAYBE on QVC or TigerDirect This Afternoon
September 14th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware rumors
I’ve heard a juicy rumor today and I couldn’t help but share. According to the rumor you’ll be able to find HP TouchPads on either the QVC TigerDirect websites today. They are going to go up at either 2 pm Eastern or Pacific. While this is a rumor, there is a fair amount of evidence [...]
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Under the Sea with the Sony Reader
September 14th, 2011 · 3 Comments · hardware news, video
Have you ever been 300ft down in the ocean and had a hankering to read an ebook? Me neither, but some people want to keep their options open.
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