Here are a few interesting stories from the past day. 2011 Digital Publishing Timeline (FutureBook) A Tumultuous Year in Books (The Atlantic) Chefs’ Selections: The Best Books Read During 2011 (Scholarly Kitchen)
Entries from December 22nd, 2011
My iPad Now Has a Kindle Email Address & Backs up My Notes!
December 21st, 2011 · 6 Comments · Amazon
I just got an interesting email from Amazon. My contact told me that I had missed a couple small but important details when I posted about the iPad app update this morning. I’m so very glad that she did because it makes the new app that much shinier. It turns out that along with the [...]
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Google Books App Now Supports Offline Reading in Chrome
December 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments · Chrome, Google Books, software news
Google Books was quietly updated yesterday with one key feature that most other reading apps had: an offline reading mode. It’s only available in Chrome, and it doesn’t support PDF yet, but this is still a useful addition to the app. This might seem like a relatively minor feature, but there aren’t all that many [...]
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Nook Tablet Bests Kindle Fire, iPad 2 in Display Tests
December 21st, 2011 · 7 Comments · hardware news
The screen tech experts at DisplayMate are back again with a new study. This time around they’re comparing 3 IPS screens, and it looks like there’s more to the display than just the type of screen tech it’s based on. The Kindle Fire, iPad 2, and Nook Tablet are all IPS screens, and the screens [...]
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Kindle for iPhone, iPad Updated – Now Supports PDF, Kindle Cloud, and More
December 21st, 2011 · 3 Comments · Amazon, apps, Kindle Cloud, kpr
Christmas came a little early for iPad users this year. Amazon has just rolled out an update for their reading app on the iPad and iPhone, and they added a bunchaton of new features. The iPad app is getting support for the new magazines and other periodicals currently found on the Kindle Fire. That’s over [...]
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New Free Game for the Kindle
December 21st, 2011 · 4 Comments · Amazon, Freebies
Did you just buy a Kindle for Christmas? Then you might want to pick up the 14 free games that Amazon has released for the Kindle. Amazon has their own in-house development team for the Kindle games, and every so often they release a new one . They released a new free app today, and [...]
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Morning Coffee – 21 December 2011
December 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Round up
Here are a few articles to read over your morning beverage of choice. Amazon Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2 (Marco.org) Drawn & Quarterly Releases First Digital Graphic Novel (Drawn & Quarterly)
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Basque Novelist Discovers She’s Being Pirated, Threatens to Quit Writing
December 20th, 2011 · 10 Comments · piracy
From the cutting off your nose to site your face dept… The Guardian is reporting tonight that Lucía Etxebarria, an award winning novelist, has announced that she’s going to quit writing. She posted the following update on her Facebook page. The original was in Spanish, so this is actually a translated version: “Given that I [...]
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Amazon Almost Bought RIM
December 20th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Amazon
Do you recall that rumor that Amazon might buy webOS? It looks like there was a grain of truth in it; Amazon tried to by Research in Motion, makers of the Blackberry, this summer. Reuters is reporting that RIM has turned down a number of offers over the past year, and one was from Amazon.
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Publishing Insiders Reveal Price-Fixing Conspiracy
December 20th, 2011 · No Comments · lawsuit
Do you recall all those lawsuits filed against the Price Fix 6 months ago? It turns out that the lawsuits aren’t just opportunistic lawyers going after an easy kill; recent court filings have revealed that at least 2 of the law firms have sources inside the publishing industry. According to briefs filed this week, those [...]
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