Charbax was at a trade show last week when he came across this new e-reader. The B516 is an updated version of the existing N516. I’ve got one on my desk, and it has all the same buttons, only on the B516 they’ve been moved slightly. It’s supposed to be on the market some time [...]
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In the Era of eBooks, What Is a Book Worth? (II)
April 27th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
The first article in this series of musings, In the Era of eBooks, What Is a Book Worth? (I), brought a lot of comment, particularly on blogs that reprinted it. Most commenters disagreed with me, and several of the commenters compared an author’s uniqueness and a book’s worth to a painting.
CVS shipped me the wrong Sylvania tablet
April 26th, 2011 · 6 Comments · hardware reviews
Yesterday I got my Sylvania 7″ tablet and as I am wont to do I posted about my first impressions. Then I started looking for more info on the tablet (I was hoping for a hacked firmware) and I found something rather interesting. There are actually several models floating around under the one name. If [...]
In the Era of eBooks, What Is a Book Worth? (I)
April 25th, 2011 · 8 Comments · opinion
Some questions have no answer, or at least not a universal answer. This is true of this question: In the era of ebooks, what is a book worth? Yet, every day, ebookers are making that value judgement, including in their calculation of whether or not to buy an ebook what they believe is the worth of a [...]
Amazon share the Android blindspot
April 24th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
There was a post here. I decided to reconsider the post and deleted it. It will probably show up at a later date.
Piracy will bring about the end of Western Civilization
April 19th, 2011 · 6 Comments · opinion
So a friend tipped me to this story on piracy that was on front page of Metro, a free UK daily newspaper. Normally I would read it, laugh at the inaccuracies, and go on with my life. But I decided to rebut this one. It should only take me a half hour or so, and [...]
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The Wired iPad app could use some work
April 18th, 2011 · 2 Comments · software reviews
So Wired are giving away the May issue of their iPad edition for free, and I finally have an iPad. I immediately downloaded it – well, “immediately” is a bit of a stretch; it was 380MB and took 20 minutes to download. I’ve had a number of requests on twitter that I review this app, [...]
Sometimes it’s not you – It’s the app
April 18th, 2011 · 1 Comment · software reviews
I’ve been getting the free Android app from Amazon ever since the Appstore opened, and that’s how I got the app I’m reviewing today. PewPew is the first app I’ve ever had that made use of a multi-touch screen (like the one on my gTablet). Unfortunately, it’s really not all that well designed. I’m writing [...]
Gatekeeping: Necessary or Not in the eBook Era?
April 18th, 2011 · 16 Comments · opinion
I think there is a marketplace confusion regarding the value of gatekeeping vs. nongatekeeping. Problem 1 is that nongatekept authors whose ebooks sell well fail to distinguish between books sold and books read. This is an important distinction. Using myself as an example, I am willing to read an author’s description of their ebook and spend a [...]
Franklin to drop support for the eBookMan on April 30th
April 15th, 2011 · 4 Comments · hardware news
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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