It’s a beautiful Monday morning here in Virginia. Here are some stories you may have missed over the past few days. 21st-century publishing builds on a healthy radical tradition (The Guardian) Bookstores losing browsers to Web (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) China E-Reader Sales Down Thanks To Lack Of Content (Paid Content)
Entries from December 19th, 2011
Review Slick ER-701
December 18th, 2011 · 9 Comments · E-reader Reviews
Here’s another cheap e-reader that appeared on the US market about a month ago but doesn’t appear to have drawn any real attention. The Slick ER-701 is a rebranded basic ebook reader that was originally designed by Gajah, a Singapore based e-reader maker. It’s running their standard firmware, and it has a 7″ screen, 4GB [...]
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Camera Test on the Samsung Galaxy Tab
December 18th, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware reviews
I’m in the planning stages for CES, and Ive really been wanting to upgrade my camera. So today I ran a field test of the refurbed Galaxy tab that i posted about a few weeks ago. Woot was selling it for $199, and that turned out to be a spectacular price. I had heard that [...]
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How to Enter Debug Mode on the K4 (video)
December 18th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
A couple days ago I came across this video on Youtube. I haven’t seen any news posts on hacking this particular Kindle, so I’m posting this to see what turns up. This is a very simple hack, and it actually isn’t one. This video shows you how to enter the debug mode for the K4. [...]
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Canadian Booksellers Association Signs with Google Books
December 18th, 2011 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Google expanded their ebookstore affiliates this past week with a new deal in Canada. The CBA announced that they’ve worked out a deal with Campus eBookstore, the ebook distribution platform for NACS. The Canadian Booksellers Association’s member stores will now be able to partner with Google and sell ebooks via their websites.
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What do you call $1.7 milllion worth of Playbooks?
December 18th, 2011 · 5 Comments · hardware news
Do you recall the last time you heard a crime story where a thief had the bad luck to say, try to rob a cop convention? I have another one of those stories. Police in Indian reported on Friday that a shipment of Blackberry Playbooks was stolen at a truck stop – truck and all.
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Is B&N Seeing Poor Sales This Holiday Season?
December 17th, 2011 · 19 Comments · ebookstore news
As an ebook blogger, I of course watch the major ebookstores. I’m watching for the sales, of course, but I also track the special deals. And lately it seems that B&N has been offering quite a few more deals than anyone else. The sheer volume of special offers, discount coupons, and sales is beginning to [...]
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Kobo Now Selling eBooks in Dutch
December 17th, 2011 · 5 Comments · ebookstore news
It looks like Kobo has managed to get a step ahead of Amazon today. The Dutch e-reader blog eReaders.nl has reported that Kobo is now selling ebooks in their 6th language – Dutch. Kobo has carried a few titles in Dutch since June of this year, but those were all free public domain ebooks that [...]
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The Morning Coffee – 17 December 2011
December 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Round up
Here are a few interesting stories you may have missed. Amazon Doesn’t Care About Your Local Bookstore (Wired) An Enhanced Book Tribute to Christopher Hitchens (free Epub from Vook) Are Tablets and E-Readers Responsible For a Rebirth of Reading? (Gizmodo)
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Weekly RoundUp – 17 December 2011
December 17th, 2011 · No Comments · Round up
It’s been a really fun week here at the blog.On Saturday I posted about the Kindle Touch getting its first hack (which used an mp3 file). Later in the week I brought you news of the Nook Color update, which unfortunately didn’t let you install third party apps. And this week I also learned that [...]
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