If you ask Amazon, the Kindle isn’t avaialble outside the US. Someone really needs to tell Indiaplaza about that; they have the Kindle Fire up for pre-order with a retail of around 15,000 rupees (~$300). In case it’s not clear, IndiaPlaza are not an authorized distributor of the Kindle Fire. No, they’re buying up Amazon’s [...]
Entries from October 17th, 2011
Cold facts: E-book sales are accelerating while print sales are plunging
October 17th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Twenty years of the World Wide Web only increased the sale of books. Just a few years after the Kindle was launched e-book sales are accelerating and print sales are plunging. Here are the facts that interest the numbers nerds who follow these things.
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Access to Launch Epub3 Compatible Reading App
October 17th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Epub3
You might recall that last week the IDPF held a meeting last week and finalized the Epub3 spec, moving us one step forward to seeing commercially available Epub3 ebooks. When I heard the news I didn’t expect it to matter much; I thought it would be months before we saw any apps or e-readers that [...]
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iriver Story HD – Overpriced and Underperforming
October 16th, 2011 · 11 Comments · hardware reviews
The iriver Story HD is the 4th ebook reader from iriver. It was launched in June 2011 with the first models shipping in July. It’s a rather unimpressive e-reader, and it’s only the latest of iriver’s tepid attempts to dabble in the ebook reader market. As I sit here reviewing the Story HD in October [...]
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Should Kobo be Counted as One of the 3 Major Ebookstores?
October 16th, 2011 · 20 Comments · opinion
Mike Shatzkin wrote a post this morning on Kobo’s new partnerships (in the UK and in France) and how those deals were going to make Kobo one of the major ebookstore competitors. I had a rather interesting experience yesterday that really makes me wonder if that is true. I went up to NYC yesterday to [...]
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First Look at the New Thalia Oyo II E-reader
October 16th, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news
It’s been 2 months since Thalia first announced that they were going to release a new Oyo e-reader, and earlier this week they finally unveiled the the Oyo II. The original is on the left, with the new Oyo on the right.
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NYCC 2011: Crossing the Comics/Prose Divide
October 15th, 2011 · 8 Comments · opinion
I’m back now from my trip to NYC, and it’s given me a lot to think about. I went up for the day so I could attend NYCC (New York ComiCon) with the usual goal of connecting with publishers, talking to digital comics distributors, and generally networking with so we can match a name with [...]
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Daily Deal: 60% off at Fictionwise
October 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Daily deals
Fictionwise are having another sale this weekend and it’s a good one. The sale runs through Sunday night and it’s good for almost everything they still have in stock. You’ll need the code and yes it will work more than once: 101411. I would be taking advantage of this but I’ve long since cleared out [...]
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Weekly Round Up – 15 October 2011
October 15th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Round up
This fine and beautiful Saturday morning find me, your faithful blogger, on a bus going up to NYC. I’m going to spend the day at NYC Comicon and see what I can see. Here’s a list of the more popular posts from the past week. Stanza is back int he news again thanks to Apple [...]
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Sony Reader PRS-T1 hacked – Still Won’t Run Angry Birds (video)
October 14th, 2011 · 20 Comments · hardware news, video
We’ve known ever since the T1 launched that it ran Android, and for the longest time everyone has been saying that it couldn’t be hacked becuase it wasn’t running a full Android install. Clearly that’s not the case. Do you see that menu at right which shows a bunch of different reading apps? Yeah, the [...]
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