The Digital Reader

Here are a few posts to read this morning.

• Apps Are ‘Huge’ For Barnes & Noble (MocoNews)

• Book Business to Split Into Three Major Segments? (DBW) [Read more →]

Here are a few stories worth reading this morning.

• About the Merit of an e-Reader as a Single-Purpose Device (Library Hat)

• Digital Eloquence (FutureBook) [Read more →]

Here are a few things I’m reading this morning.

• An Open Letter (and a Challenge) to Jonathan Franzen (Diesel eBookStore Blog)

• Are Education Publishers Really Innovating? (FutureBook)

• Book Country’s First Signed Author: ‘Never Considered Self-Publishing’ (DBW) [Read more →]

Here is a bonus edition of the morning coffee.

• The Case for the E-Book in the (Gasp!) New York Review of Books (The Atlantic)

• E-publishing, Part 4: E-looters And The Leech Mindset (Byte) [Read more →]

Here are a few stories I am reading this morning.

• Amazon, Innovation, and the Rewards of the Free Market (The Author’s Guild)

• Apple sold more iOS devices in 2011 than all the Macs sold it in 28 years (Asymco) [Read more →]

Here are a few stories I’m reading this morning.

• Accessible EPUB 3 (free ebook from O”Reilly)

• BookTango: Author Solutions Rolls Out Ebook Distribution Services (Writers Beware!)

• Indie Bookseller On E-Books: ‘I Don’t Think We’ll Ever Make Money On Them’ (Paid Content) [Read more →]

Here re a few things I am reading this morning.

• 8 Unexpected Downsides of the Switch to E-books (Cracked)

• About the Emerging Battles Over Textbooks: Options from Apple to Open Initiatives (O’Reilly Radar) [Read more →]

Here are a few stories I am reading this morning.

• By one benchmark at least, we are probably halfway through the (r)evolution (The Shatzkin Files)

• HarperCollins Case May Redraw Battle Lines Over E-Books (The Passive Voice)

• How high can the e-book market go? (FutureBook) [Read more →]

Here are a few stories I’m reading while on my way to O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference.

• Disruptions: So Many Apologies, So Much Data Mining (NYTimes Bits Blog)

• Australia’s first digital-only trade publisher launches (eReport)

• Bookle: Hands-on with the new Mac EPUB reader app (TUAW) [Read more →]

Here are some stories I’m reading this morning.

• Aakash tablet: Students to get it for free (India Today)

• … everything looks like a nail… (FutureBook) [Read more →]