The London Book Fair is going to begin tomorrow, and today there was a digital conference. One of the key topics at was enhanced ebooks. Specifically, Evan Schnittman, the managing director of Bloomsbury, is reported to have argued in his keynote that enhanced ebooks are dead. I’m waiting to hear back from him, and all [...]
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RedGroup Retail will be dead soon
March 23rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · redgroup
The RedGroup Retail bankruptcy situation has taken a turn for the worse. Administrators for the now bankrupt Australian bookstore chain conglomerate announced that gift cards would no longer be valid after 3 April. Anyone who doesn’t spend them will be SOL. That’s not a good sign.
The Zune was declared dead yesterday
March 15th, 2011 · No Comments · hardware news
It’s not really dead, though. Microsoft will continue to make and sell existing models (which came out in 2009) until no one wants them any more. And do you know the scary part? The hardware is dying, but the Zune Marketplace will live on and be used to support Windows Phone 7. You may not [...]
Amazon aren’t planning a Kindle tablet
December 18th, 2010 · 10 Comments · hardware rumors
Just a few minutes ago I posted on the new Cruz T301 Android tablet. This tablet had one really interstinf feature: it ships with the Kindle android app. I didn’t realize what that meant until after I hit the Publish button. If Amazon had planned a Kindle tablet then they wouldn’t have partnered with Velocity [...]
The txtr reader is dead
December 3rd, 2010 · 6 Comments · hardware news
I’ve just gotten this juicy piece of gossip from an former txtr employee. The 6″ txtr reader, which was supposed to have launched at the Frankfurt Book Fair this year, has been quietly abandoned by the company. Note that I’m calling it gossip because I don’t have confirmation yet, but it does fit with mutterings [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s tablet newspaper isn’t dead after all
November 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · hardware news
Women’s Wear Daily had an extensive story this week on The Daily, Rupert Murdoch’s tablet newspaper. (Do you recall the one that was supposed to have been cancelled? I guess it wasn’t.) WWD don’t have much in the way of technical details, but they did say that: News Corp. has spent the last three months [...]
Print Is Dead
October 6th, 2010 · 2 Comments · opinion
LA Weekly are putting this sign on their newspaper boxes, which might be ironic considering more people will read this online than see the actual sign. via Update: An astute reader pointed out a problem with the picture: it’s over 2 years old. My mistake. But I think that makes my point even stronger. More [...]
It’s official: the zombie mashup meme is dead (video)
September 14th, 2010 · 1 Comment · video
Quirk Books (publishers of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies) have released a rather gory book trailer for Night of the Living Trekkies by Kevin David Anderson. This is a case of where the book won’t be nearly as good as the trailer.
Cool-ER might not be dead after all
September 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
Actually, I think they’re dead and going to stay that way, but I could be wrong. Pocket-lint bumped into the head of marketing for Interead (Cool-ER’s owner), Phil Wood, and he reported that Interead had worked out a deal for Elonex to revive the brand name. The deal will see five new eBook readers, that [...]
Txtr e-reader isn’t dead yet, could hit the market in October
September 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment · hardware news
My first reaction: Yes, but October of what year, exactly? One of the stories from IFA that’s not getting the attention it should is about the long delayed Txtr e-reader. Johannes of lesen.net met with the Txtr people the other day and he’s reporting that the Txtr will soon be going through a beta test [...]
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