Much to my surprise, Franklin has been quietly supporting its e-rader, the eBookMan, for the past 12 years. It will stop supporting the eBookMan by the end of April. The eBookMan was first released in 1999, and apparently the same hardware has been sold for the past 12 years. As you can see, it has [...]
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Franklin to drop support for the eBookMan on April 30th
April 15th, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news
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Augen have no plans to drop “The Book”
October 6th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
There’s been a rumor going around the past few days that Augen are planning to abandon their $99 Kindle clone. I checked with Augen, and they denied it. The rumor is false, Augen will carry TheBook eReader through 2011. It didn’t really make much sense to drop it now; with its current price and abilities [...]
Nintendo have e-reader plans for the 3DS
June 18th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
Satoru Iwata, the Chairman of Nintendo, was interviewed at E3 this week, and he said that Nintendo is considering how the 3DS might use its Wifi to download ebooks. “We’re thinking about functionality where it will automatically acquire newspaper and magazine articles.” This would mark an expansion on Nintendo’s previous foray into ebook reading. Back [...]
India’s National Library plans a ‘Museum of the Word’
April 26th, 2010 · No Comments · digitization projects
From Topnew.in: The National Library is planning to establish a a Museum of the Word to mark and preserve the long history of various scripts created, used and some lost in our country on continued history.The museum is to come up in an old heritage building, which was once the home of Warren Hastings, Bengal’s [...]
South Korea plans to create national ebook roadmap
April 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
From Korea IT Times: To further help transcend the eBook industry, South Korea plans to make a national blueprint to develop the eBook industry within the year, which will tap into new growth engines. Moreover, The Ministry of Knowledge Economy stated, “It will collaborate with different ministries to create necessary technologies and industrial standards to [...]
Conde Nast’s Plans for iPad Ads Become Clearer
April 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Apple, video
From the Wall Street Journal: On the eve of GQ magazine’s debut on the iPad, how its publisher plans to sell advertising on the device is coming into focus. Conde Nast, whose app for GQ is available in the App Store for $2.99, has signed five advertisers for the first issue of GQ under an [...]
KT plans to Release E-reader
March 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · ebookstore news, hardware news
KT (Wikipedia), one of Korea’s largest telecoms, has announced plans to enter the ebook market. From the Korea Times: KT Corp. plans to launch an e-book business in April, company employees said Thursday. They expect the new business to give additional momentum to its wireless data Internet services at a time when the local e-book [...]
Lulu plans to go public
March 16th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
Lulu is more focused on POD than ebooks, but this is still an interesting development for digital publishing. The News Observer is reporting: The company behind the Lulu.com book publishing Web site has taken the first official step toward an initial public offering in Canada. The Raleigh-based company — founded in 2002 by CEO Bob [...]
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