Netgalley have just announced that in late 2011 Penguin will start distributing digital galleys through NetGalley. This will give Penguin access to over 19,000 reviewers, media contacts, booksellers, librarians, educators and other professional readers. “I’m very excited about our partnership with NetGalley,” Matthew Boyd, Publishing Coordinator at Penguin Group (USA) said. “Providing books to readers [...]
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Ectaco to announce 2 new e-readers at CES
January 3rd, 2011 · 6 Comments · hardware news
That’s what they’re hinting on their Facebook page: Ectaco will be unavailing 2 new gadgets at CES this year that will change the eReader game for sure! Don’t forget to stop by our booth. South Hall Upper Level & Connector – Booth #36166 I asked and they sent me a PDF of the brochure for [...]
Hanvon announce their 1 millionth user
December 27th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
The Taipei Times are reproting that Hanvon how have a user base with over 1 million users. Hanvon Technology, China’s largest e-reader brand, yesterday said it has accumulated more than 1 million users to date after it made a foray into the market segment in mid-2008. Is that all they’ve managed to sell in a [...]
Overdrive announce e-reader cheat sheet for EVERYONE
December 5th, 2010 · 6 Comments · overdrive
Overdrive announced another library e-reader cheat sheet last week. This one, like the last, shows e-readers that are compatible with Overdrive’s ebook library system. But this one differs from the last in that it was made for the user, not the librarian. There’s a big problem with it becuase it is woefully incomplete. leaving aside [...]
Wall Street Journal announce the WSJ Tablet Edition Android app
November 11th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Android, press release
The WSJ are now offering a free app designed specifically for Android tablets. It’s free to download, and a subscription costs $3.99 a week. You can share a digital subscription between the Android and iOS apps as well as WSJ.com. <- nice It’s good that the WSJ released an Andoid app, and it’s great that [...]
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Borders, Chegg.com announce partnership
November 9th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
The testbook rental site Chegg have jsut announced on their blog that you can now rent textbooks through Borders.com As you know, you can already rent textbooks through our website Chegg.com, our iPhone app and Powered by Chegg rental stands in campus bookstores across the country – but today we’re excited to unveil yet another [...]
E-ink announces Triton color epaper (video)
November 9th, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news, press release
E-ink just posted a press release for the new Triton color screen. There’s not much to tell you, unfortunately. The specs for new screen are rather vague, and the press release was carefully written to mislead. Update: but there is a promo video on Vimeo. I added it after the break. It has color (but [...]
Kno to announce price and availabilty tomorrow
November 8th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
This was posted on their blog a few minutes ago. We get asked about pricing hundreds of times a day….
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