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BEA No Show: Million-e

May 27th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows

This one has me scratching my head. One company that was high on my list was Million-e Culture Industrial Co. They had an e-reader at CeBit this year that I was dying to see. I would have loved to have shown it to you. Unfortunately, all I have is this picture of their empty booth. [...]

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BEA 2010: Blio

May 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · blio, software news

I caught the Blio presentation at the Baker & Taylor booth.  Not much in the way of new information, but I did catch that Blio for Windows and iPhone will be out in July, with Symbian, Android, Mac, and Linux coming later. Also, Baker & Taylor is working with PC makers to have Blio preloaded [...]

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BEA 2010: Onyx

May 26th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news, Uncategorized

Did you know that Onyx has a distributor in Finland? They’re called Elisa, and they’re selling the 3G model. Sorry, but I don’t have more detail (Google Translate is broken). In other news, the large screen model has been delayed due to development problems, so they’ve redoubled their focus on improving the Boox 60, their [...]

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BEA 2010: Kobo

May 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news

There’s not much in the way of real news to report here, but I was told that the new Kobo apps were coming “real soon now”. Also, Kobo isn’t planning on a second e-reader. Right now they’re focusing on getting the apps out the door, expanding to more countries (hint, hint), and improving the user [...]

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BEA 2010: Lies Readers Tell Themselves

May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows

The real title for this session is “I’ll never pay more than $9.99 for an E-book!”, but that doesn’t work quite so well. The presenter was Michael Norris, senior analyst for Simba Information, an independent research house based in Connecticut. The first thing he told us was that when you look at survey data, be [...]

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BEA 2010: Copyright in Motion

May 25th, 2010 · No Comments · conferences & trade shows

About the presenter This session is hosted by Christopher Keneally, the Director of Business Development at the Copyright Clearance Center. The CCC is a world expert in copyright licensing solutions. My audio of the session (WMA) (posted with permission of the presenter) The session opened with a video which you can find here. The CCC [...]

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